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These are basic instructions for tanning fox, bobcat, and coyote sized skins. Five days should be plenty
of time to tan but use your discretion.
Basic Instructions:
of time to tan but use your discretion.
Basic Instructions:
- In a plastic 5-gallon bucket, dissolve two pounds of table salt and a small jar of alum in about two
gallons of warm water. Top off with two more gallons of water once it's throughly dissolved. - Place the skin into the solution, and stir it around to get it really soaked. You want to ensure that
the solution gets to all parts of the skin. - The skin will float to the surface
- Stir several times a day for 3 to 5 days.
- Remove the skin from the solution and rinse thoroughly.
- Use plenty of water to rinse all the salt out.
- Lay the skin out to dry. Laying it on a chicken wire frame will help drain and air out the skin.
- Before the skin gets potato chip dry. You will want to work it to break up and loosen the skin fibers.
- It is recommended you use a short stick of wood carved to a dull point on one end and blade on the
other end to break up the fibers. - Once loosened up enough to lay it flat, roll up or fold it up to suit you.
- You're done!
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