wetscraping buffalo
Hello all I am thinking of picking up a green buffalo hide this Thursday, and am wanting to braintan it hair-off. Is it completely nuts to attempt to wetscrape it? I've done about 35-40 deer and a...
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Also saw this: http://paleoplanet69529.yuku.com/topic/55628/Summer-killed-buffalo-hides#.U6BgUF5MAs0 So, they're heavy and unwieldy to wetscrape. Worse than a big elk?
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they are heavy and unweidly ...heavier usually than a big elk....Of course that depends on the animal...was it a yearling .. depends on the sex....to .I strung up a 2 year old cow with the help of a...
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If you are going to make hair off brain tan I would definitely go with dry scrape. If you can borrow some sheep shears you can save a lot of hacking work with the wahintke by shaving the excess hair...
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Just my 2 cents here, never done one myself but I have been around a couple people attempting wetscrape buffalo buckskin. I think it is doable, in my opinion the scraping is the "easy" part. Because...
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This is a cow from last fall it was fleshed and wet scraped on a beam. The hide was not put into water but just with the moisture in the hide when fresh it was sweated in a plastic bag hair and grain...
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Melvin, that big fleshing tool looks familiar to me. Does it work well on the buffalo?
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