When can I wash a backskin?

[slee]

I am tanning a moose backskin with ez-100 and am wondering when can I shampoo the hair? After the tan/before oil, OR after the oil/sweat?

Thanks!

[muscle20]

      If your doing this skin by hand I would suggest that cleaning of the hair side should be done after oiling, as then you would clean up any oil on the hair side, let the skin side start to dry a little then clean hair proceed with drying, breaking and finishing. hopefully you thinned this back skin enough. 

[slee]

      If your doing this skin by hand I would suggest that cleaning of the hair side should be done after oiling, as then you would clean up any oil on the hair side, let the skin side start to dry a little then clean hair proceed with drying, breaking and finishing. hopefully you thinned this back skin enough. 

Thanks for the info. I have done 3 shavings of it by hand with a filet knife. It was a lot easier then I thought it was going to be. I got the entire skin down to the blue colour where you could just start to see the hair roots. Should be pretty good. Thanks again!

[oldshaver]

      If your doing this skin by hand I would suggest that cleaning of the hair side should be done after oiling, as then you would clean up any oil on the hair side, let the skin side start to dry a little then clean hair proceed with drying, breaking and finishing. hopefully you thinned this back skin enough. 

Thanks for the info. I have done 3 shavings of it by hand with a filet knife. It was a lot easier then I thought it was going to be. I got the entire skin down to the blue colour where you could just start to see the hair roots. Should be pretty good. Thanks again!

Slee, how many days you got in that fleswhing job?

[slee]

I had the hide in the pickle for three days before the first shaving. Then 24 hours before the next, and 12 before the final one (total of 4 hours of shaving time over the three shavings). The hide has been tanned and is drying as we speak.

I have a bottle of Trubond 1000b, Tb 1000, citric acid, and lipa-solv 55 coming to my door any day now before my next project. I can't wait to see how it is compared to the ez-100 tan. From all the great reviews of it on here I am sure my hides will turn out better then the ez-100...






Why do you ask??? Am I missing a step? Or doing something wrong or something that could be done better?