I got myself a nice, smallish cinnamon bear recently. Her coat is thick and has a wonderful colour. Racing against the setting sun, I rushed the skinning job more than I should have. A few holes for sure.
I want to process the hide in the shape of a sheep skin. Should I try to do myself? How much am I looking at having it done professionally? I feel like I would rob myself of the experience, as nasty as it may be, by not doing myself.
Any encouragement, opinions, previous experience or tips would be appreciated. Cheers
I got myself a nice, smallish cinnamon bear recently. Her coat is thick and has a wonderful colour. Racing against the setting sun, I rushed the skinning job more than I should have. A few holes for sure.
I want to process the hide in the shape of a sheep skin. Should I try to do myself? How much am I looking at having it done professionally? I feel like I would rob myself of the experience, as nasty as it may be, by not doing myself.
Any encouragement, opinions, previous experience or tips would be appreciated. Cheers
If you dont want to take a chance, take it in.
As for doing it yourself, I will be bark tanning this year with Bear for pelts and Deer for leather. If your interested in bark tanning I can send you vids of the process I will be following. Either way you choose, do something with it. Bark tanning is a natural method their are modern chemical methods and the fat methods as well
Wish I could be more help but will be doing it myself for the first time this year and have no pricings from the pros.
Should put yourself together a good fleshing beam, wood, PVC. And a good scraper if doing it yourself. Probably the most important though is how your keeping it for storage right now (learnt this the hard way with a Wolf 2 years back)
So the wolf that I harvested last season I froze the hide, rolled skin on skin, and when I took it out to tan it, the hair was falling off as I started to flesh it - totally ruined.. if I remember correctly, I was told by someone on this site to freeze it flat first, rather then rolling it.. can someone attest to this?