egg tanning

[FurNFeathers]

you're actually wasting more time writing something about how one method is useless to you, when it's actually extremely valuable to other people..



Cuz they are sitting in there wheel chair waitin for their wife to bring supper. Not much else they can do boss!!!!

[George Roof]

Tucker, are you a real taxidermist or just another wannabe hanging here so your pretentions can sound good.  No one ever said you couldn't ASK a question, but that means when it's a dumbass question and someone tells you it is, that's the price you pay.  Just how many hides have YOU tanned using eggs?  How must TAXIDERMY have you done USING egg tans? So if you don't want to be called a dumbass, don't ask dumbass questions. Seems like that's a simple trade off for your ideal of blowing roses up someone's ass about "there's no such thing as a stupid question". Perhaps.  But then there are enough stupid people out there trying to do taxidermy work to refute that claim.

[Nancy C]

George, sometimes I agree with you, sometimes I don't. This is one of those times when I don't.

Think about it. Would you use bark tanned leather for taxidermy?  Or brain tanned leather? Do you think they could have any valid purpose in taxidermy?

How about, perhaps, covering an antler panel mount or the back of a pedestal mount - especially if those animals were taken with primitive weapons? Would that be a valid purpose?
Several taxidermy suppliers sell vegetable tanning supplies right alongside their other tanning supplies. Maybe they know something that you haven't considered.
Personally, I don't see why you feel the need to protect (?) this website from subjects that don't seem to be immediately relevant to taxidermy. You, of all people, (since you have been around the block a few times) should know that there are almost NO craft-related subjects that don't end up being applicable to taxidermy at some point or other.

Flower preservation, faux marble finishing, hair coloring and bleaching, woodworking, molding and casting, metalworking, painting techniques .... it goes on and on. Asking a question about primitive tanning methods doesn't seem all that odd when you take it in context.

Lighten up, man! Save your ire for the current events forum.

[tuckertan]

George, i'm learning, and when you live in the middle of no where, with no other people in the field of work, it's a hard thing to learn, so i come online. it looks like you're the dumb ass here, sorry to say..

thanks for all the support people!!! it's nice to see that people agree, and maybe it's time for the old farts stuck in their ways to get over themselves and open up to new people that have question!!!!!!

[George Roof]

Tucker you math isn't much better than your assumption that I'm "stuck in my ways".  I make a conscious effort to stay ahead of the learning curve.  No one ever lived any farther back "in the sticks" than I did but it you ever intend to be a taxidermist you need to look in front of you instead of behind.  There IS a market from primitive tanning methods, but for a production operation or the increased chances of a quality product, that's not it.

Nancy you've read that wrong.  I don't mind the discussion but the first thing that happens is that someone tries to feed us TAXIDERMISTS that we "need" to encourage antiquated methods.  Now let me ask you as a bird specialist what if someone told you that all you needed to preserve your skins was salt.  Do you think you'd be so accommodating?  I seriously doubt that.

[Nancy C]

That would depend, George. If I wanted to preserve them for long-term storage then I would agree that salt might be the best way in some cases. It has its uses after all, and there are limits to how many ostrich skins I want to store in the freezer. (A limit of zero, in fact.)
Is long term preservation of not-yet-mounted specimens a valid aspect of taxidermy?
For the preservation of skin which is part of a mounted bird, I prefer borax or, for the big ones, one of the many accepted tanning processes. That should be no surprise to anybody, but I think that ALL knowledge is worth saving and if someone wants to learn how to preserve and mount birds using something like, say, tobacco juice, then why should I discourage them?

[George Roof]

Tobacco juice - eggs- same thing to us mammal skin mounters.  So we agree then Nancy.  LOL

[FurNFeathers]

Tucker you math isn't much better than your assumption that I'm "stuck in my ways".

Hey George.... You math...his math may be better than your English  since you even had spell check to help you.

[George Roof]

LOL  You'd better look at those words and see which one is misspelled first.  Mis-typing won't be picked up by the Spell Check if the word is still correct.

[mfierce]

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Flower preservation, faux marble finishing, hair coloring and bleaching, woodworking, molding and casting, metalworking, painting techniques .... it goes on and on. Asking a question about primitive tanning methods doesn't seem all that odd when you take it in context.

Lighten up, man! Save your ire for the current events forum.

I totally agree what you have written here. ^^ It is definitely all about the context. I do not think that there are stupid questions here. Everyone asks stupid questions sometimes and I am of the opinion that this is something positive.
I personally love flower preservation because I often order flowers and they are always so beautiful that I wish to keep them forever.

[mr.T aka mr. friendly]

Fur dressing, or tanning? Some think they tan with yoke, smoke and brain fat,, that is called fur dressing, and not a tan at all. Is Jergens or Coppertone in a tube a tan, when the Sun will do a better job?

[spy7575]

See even a (stupid question) ends with an interesting discussion.

[George Roof]

People who've never been asked stupid questions simply aren't smart enough to recognize the fact.

[CrabCrazy]

why use eggs...just use a jar of mayonnaise..it has the yolks and oil...a tanning cream if you will  LOL

[Newton35]

What a disappointment!    As a novice I thought I had discovered a sight from which to learn the best tanning fur methods from those who have continued to perfect their art.  However, it appears that I have stumbled into a den of know-it-all elites who have no intentions of publishing their mistakes or giving help to anybody outside their private “Taxidermy Club”.