Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Florida
Posts: 7

can anyone tell me what the easyiest way to tan a coon hide is

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Missouri
Posts: 111

In my opionion there is not an easy way to tan a coon hide. You have to spend endless hours scrapping all the fat off & getting the skin a uniform thickness, several days/weeks soaking in a chemical, oiling & stretching and then breaking the hide out so that it is soft. Everything is a peice of cake compared to the breaking. I would suggest that you get a hold of your local taxidermist and find out how much they would charge to tan it or most of the time they send it out to a commercial place that has machines that do all of it. Also here is a link for a guy who swears this is the easiest way to tan a hide. I have never tried it. The battery acid is to hard to get ahold of here. http://www.islandgems.net/tanning.html
Amy

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Florida
Posts: 7

thanks hoovershounds call me crazy but i think i'll try the battery acid. it sounds pretty easy dangerous but easy i'll try to let you know how it works if i get the gutts to try it

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jul 2004
Location: ohio
Posts: 235

Joe
I am a Taxidermist, and i can tell you one very easy way to do it. Skin the coon and remove all the fat on a fleshing beam or with a knife if that's all you have. split the tail all the way to the tip. Buy a product called Krowtann 2000, you can buy this from a company named Ozark Woods 1-800-467-0369 it cost about $20 a quart and that will do a dozen or so coon. The stuff comes with complete instructions. You should wash the coon in some dawn dish soap water before you pu it in the tan and rinse it very good after washing with dawn. Then put it in th etan for 3-5 days. remove it and neutralize it using the directions that came with the tan. Let it dry and it's done. Very easy and inexspensive.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Radford, Virginia
Posts: 2748

dave,

will that stuff work for deer hides as well?

__________________
Soggy Bottom Redbones


GRNTCH GRCH 'PR' Soggy Bottom The Frog Dawg (current reproducers list)
NTCH CH Soggy Bottom The Bull Dawg
Soggy Bottom T-Top Miss Dottie
RIP
GRNTCH GRCH Soggy Bottom T-Top Haze HTX (Former#1 Reproducer)
CH Soggy Bottom T-Top Stella
GRNTCH GRCH Soggy Bottom T-Top Shadow
NTCH CH Soggy Bottom Bomber's Red Wire (Pigeon- former #1 Reproducer)
NTCH GRCH Red Cedar T-Top Lexus
CH Soggy Bottom T-Top Locket


Mike Laster
540-392-2441
pastorlaster@aol.com

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jul 2004
Location: ohio
Posts: 235

Yes it will, i have tanned a couple hundred with it.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Radford, Virginia
Posts: 2748

thanks dave.

__________________
Soggy Bottom Redbones


GRNTCH GRCH 'PR' Soggy Bottom The Frog Dawg (current reproducers list)
NTCH CH Soggy Bottom The Bull Dawg
Soggy Bottom T-Top Miss Dottie
RIP
GRNTCH GRCH Soggy Bottom T-Top Haze HTX (Former#1 Reproducer)
CH Soggy Bottom T-Top Stella
GRNTCH GRCH Soggy Bottom T-Top Shadow
NTCH CH Soggy Bottom Bomber's Red Wire (Pigeon- former #1 Reproducer)
NTCH GRCH Red Cedar T-Top Lexus
CH Soggy Bottom T-Top Locket


Mike Laster
540-392-2441
pastorlaster@aol.com

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Missouri
Posts: 111

Dave,
Does the hide dry soft or is it hard and still have to be broke out?
Amy

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Florida
Posts: 7

THANKS DAVE THAT SOUNDS EASIER THAN THE BATTERY ACID AND SAFER

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Sep 2005
Location: ohio
Posts: 764

IU have brain tanned before it was farely easy.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged