Tails will ready in about a month or month and a half. I did some experiment with some tail scraps and tanned it like you do a snake skin with glycerin and denatured alcohol. Worked great. I'll have plenty of tail material to go round.
I got a deal working on a hide but have a few to part with. Thomas I sent you a PM.
adb, let me know what you got to trade. looking for shafts feather and stone or steel points
Cameroo, I read a post of your on an armguard you made. Sweet work. I do a little tooling myself but nothing like that. I haven't done any for a while, Got to many irons in the fire. A 70# beaver ain't bringing near what it should considering the work, About 30$ put up and dried. It is a bear to skin a beaver and even tougher to do a tail but I enjoy my trapping . I got into because I didn't want to pay 150$ for a good tanned hide or 25$ for enough beaver tail to wrap one handle. If you want some for wraps we will work something out.