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air dried skins
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looking for the best way to deal with skins dried for sale(unsalted) now needs to be tanned. I've never had to do it before so any help with technique and chemicals would be greatly appreciated.Thanks in advance
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Air dried skins are the one thing I do use bactericide on. I soak the skins in a salt/water bath with a couple cap fulls of bactericide. Just enough to float the skin till it's rehydrated enough to bag up and refrigerate over night to sweat. The next morning I put the skin in a pickle.
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Thanks Redwolf I appreciate the time, definitely do that
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