When you neutralize with the baking soda to raise the PH the folicle closes and it becomes locked in place. So, the pickle opened the folicle, the alum then goes into it and clogs it locking it in place. Alum is a coagulant, its used to gum up lines in the swimming pool industry etc. After shaving nay hide it should likely be pickled for at least a day. A good way to check to see if a hide is pickled is by pinching it, if it retains your finger prints its pickled, if it just bounced back out, not quite pickled. This means that exposing the hide to water can cause the hair to slip (fall out) and/or the hide to stiffen dramatically. Place the skin in the shade, laying it completely flat with the fur side down, preferably on a cold concrete or rock surface. Here is an overview over traditional and modern tanning methods. Trim off any flesh and scrape visible fat from the hide. I strongly suggest you research the traditional Native American or Canadian brain tanning, but that is outside the scope of Pets.SE. When your hide is properly pickled and shaved down as thin as possible itll be ready for tan. Some sources claim tannin is safe for dogs, others claim it causes poisening with feaver, rapid heart rates and seizures. If im refinishing old tanned fur, I do not rehydrate, i just pickle, shave pickle, oil and tumble. Imagine this part of the process like your pours in a hot shower, they open up allowing access to the inside, this is whats occuring in the pickle. Pickles are your safe space and hides can be left in pickles indefinitely if the PH is maintained. 16-18 hours plus neutralizing.īasically, rehydration makes your hides soft and plyable, lipasolv or other products like SR11 help remove blood and ticks and make the hide plyable, from there the pickle is cleaning and preppping folicles for tan. Trubonds submerisble tanning product is alum sulphate hydrate, 1oz per lb of drained hide + salt. Skins should be chrome tanned if they are to be. Ph in pickle between 1.5-2.5 with trubond. Tanning rabbit hidesYou can buy food grade Alum where canning supplies are soldI recommend Aluminum Sulphate, which can be found at local g. Alum dressing is the most common method used for preserving skins, and results in a white, pliable pelt. If youre using trubond there is no alum in their pickles, It goes rehydrate (lipa) > pickle (citric usually, other acids work, and salt) after pickled shaved and into clean pickle. This BAT reference document for the Tanning of Hides and Skins forms part of. The tanning solution we eventually settled for is made by adding 1 pint of salt and 2 ounces of oxalic acid to each gallon of water used in the curing process. There is no alum in my pickles, if youre submersing your pickle should be an acid and salt. The European Commission is not liable for any consequence stemming from the.
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