January 2001 Archives
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• After pickling do you rinse the hide before shaving ? (1/31/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 31, 2001
• Tanned Deer Cape (1/31/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 7, 2001
• Places to commercially tan hides (1/31/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 7, 2001
• Auto-tanning vs sit &soak (1/31/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 31, 2001
• Soften raw hide (1/31/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 31, 2001
• Salt content (1/30/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 31, 2001
• Please Help? (1/30/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 31, 2001
• Salt in Bulk in Wisconsin (1/30/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 31, 2001
• Question for bruce (1/30/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 30, 2001
• Salt help (1/30/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 30, 2001
• Do you have to oil if mounting? (1/30/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 30, 2001
• EZ-100...vs...Rittels Kwik-N Eze (1/29/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 30, 2001
• Tan cream comments? (1/29/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 30, 2001
• Auto Tanner -- Bad Stuff (1/29/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Monday, January 29, 2001
• Cleaning leather (1/29/01)
  Size: 2K. Last Modified: Monday, January 29, 2001
• pH level after hides are placed in pickle (1/29/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Monday, January 29, 2001
• Need Help Tanning Antelope Hide; Never did before (1/28/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Monday, January 29, 2001
• Who has the New Quebec Lite flesher? (1/28/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 28, 2001
• Homemade Staking Machine (1/28/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 30, 2001
• Liqua-Tan vs. Lutan-F (1/28/01)
  Size: 2K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 28, 2001
• Help! Tanned Bison Hide Stiff! (1/28/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 30, 2001
• Need a quick answer (1/28/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 28, 2001
• Warm Water? (1/27/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 28, 2001
• First Bear (1/27/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Monday, January 29, 2001
• Salted & Fleshed-what's next? (1/27/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Saturday, January 27, 2001
• Pickles (1/27/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Saturday, January 27, 2001
• No salt, No refrigeration, Week from civilization (1/25/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Saturday, January 27, 2001
• Changing pickle solution after a few days (1/25/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Thursday, January 25, 2001
• Pickle Bath (1/25/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Thursday, January 25, 2001
• Rehydration Bath (1/24/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Thursday, January 25, 2001
• If pH goes up while pickling, what do I do..? Safetee Acid (1/24/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 24, 2001
• Rehydration (1/24/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 24, 2001
• Porcupine tanning (1/23/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Thursday, January 25, 2001
• Hair Slippage (1/23/01)
  Size: 7K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 28, 2001
• Safety Acid Question (1/23/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 23, 2001
• I am using EZ-100 can i tan different hides at the same time? (1/23/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 23, 2001
• Auto tanner, help what size? (1/23/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 23, 2001
• Mix For Auto Tanner (1/22/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 23, 2001
• Thanks Bruce (1/22/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Monday, January 22, 2001
• Basyn tan DLE (1/22/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 23, 2001
• Tanning with PX77 (1/22/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Monday, January 22, 2001
• Pickling question (1/22/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Monday, January 22, 2001
• Skunked! (1/22/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 23, 2001
• Need Info On Skinning Yotes (1/22/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Monday, January 22, 2001
• Bloody Capes (1/21/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Monday, January 22, 2001
• Hair has slipped and (1/21/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Monday, January 22, 2001
• Auto tanners (1/21/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 21, 2001
• Thinning Buffalo robe with mini flesher? (1/21/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Monday, January 22, 2001
• Question on Small Shop Salting (1/21/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 21, 2001
• Picklin in the cold. (1/21/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 21, 2001
• Washing tanned capes (1/21/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Friday, January 26, 2001
• Tans for wall hangers best one (1/21/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Monday, January 22, 2001
• Two things (1/21/01)
  Size: 6K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 21, 2001
• Who can i get to sharpen fleshing blades (1/20/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 21, 2001
• Saftee Acid Pickle - How Long? (1/20/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Saturday, January 20, 2001
• Capemaster Flesher (1/20/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Saturday, January 20, 2001
• Tanning an African bushpig (1/19/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 21, 2001
• Preserve horse hoof as ornament, how please? (1/19/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Saturday, January 20, 2001
• Purchase all kinds of fur & Leather Scraps. (1/19/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Friday, January 19, 2001
• How do you do the first fleshing of your hide? (1/19/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Friday, January 19, 2001
• Wet tanned hide came back without the ears split (1/18/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Friday, January 19, 2001
• Deoderizer added to saftee-acid ? (1/18/01)
  Size: 2K. Last Modified: Thursday, January 18, 2001
• Question For Mr. Rittel (1/18/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Thursday, January 18, 2001
• Tanning first hide / Confused about contradictions, need help! (1/17/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Thursday, January 18, 2001
• Dave T & JOhn C (1/17/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 17, 2001
• Knoblochs Super Solvent in tumbler (1/17/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 17, 2001
• Can I mix acids? (1/16/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Thursday, January 18, 2001
• Tanning using PX77 (1/16/01)
  Size: 2K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 16, 2001
• More Strech from Liquid Tan (1/16/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 16, 2001
• Chrome Tan: Where Can I Find It? (1/16/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 16, 2001
• Hair Slippage Using Saftee Acid - What Did I Do Wrong? (1/15/01)
  Size: 7K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 16, 2001
• Rinse after EZ 100 Tan (1/15/01)
  Size: 6K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 16, 2001
• Salt in degreaser? (1/15/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Monday, January 15, 2001
• Please Help? (1/15/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Monday, January 15, 2001
• When to degrease furbearers (1/15/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Monday, January 15, 2001
• Ben Mears Spray Tan (1/15/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 17, 2001
• Advice on having hides commercial tanned in South Africa (1/14/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Monday, January 15, 2001
• pH question ? (1/14/01)
  Size: 2K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 14, 2001
• Sheep tanning (1/14/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 14, 2001
• Need details on differences between DP and tanning (1/14/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 14, 2001
• Definition of tanning (1/14/01)
  Size: 13K. Last Modified: Thursday, January 18, 2001
• Elk Cape Measurements (1/13/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 14, 2001
• Good method to use? (1/13/01)
  Size: 8K. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 17, 2001
• Confused! (1/12/01)
  Size: 6K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 14, 2001
• Tanning .. what to use (1/12/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 14, 2001
• Bad hide in pickle (1/12/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Friday, January 12, 2001
• Number of capes in tumbler? (1/12/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Friday, January 12, 2001
• Help! How do I soft tan a buffalo hide w/hair on? (1/11/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Friday, January 19, 2001
• Hey Bruce, George, Someone. EZ 100 (1/11/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Friday, January 12, 2001
• Fleshing and I cant get it all off (1/11/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 14, 2001
• Advice, info for getting a hide garmet tanned (1/11/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Friday, January 12, 2001
• Shrinkage problem (1/11/01)
  Size: 6K. Last Modified: Thursday, January 11, 2001
• Rehydration and Blood X (1/11/01)
  Size: 2K. Last Modified: Thursday, January 11, 2001
• Coyote face at home (1/10/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Thursday, January 11, 2001
• Home tanners /beginners read! (1/10/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 10, 2001
• Have deer skins (1/10/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 10, 2001
• Tanning hides in home, need advice (1/10/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 10, 2001
• Where do you get your alum? (1/10/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Saturday, January 13, 2001
• Bugs? (1/9/01)
  Size: 10K. Last Modified: Thursday, January 11, 2001
• Tumbling after Lutan F/Soft Tan (1/9/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 9, 2001
• Wet or Dry Tan? (1/9/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 9, 2001
• Pickling capes (1/9/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 9, 2001
• Sticky sawdust problem (1/9/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 9, 2001
• Neutralizing? (1/8/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 9, 2001
• Retan with EZ-100 ? (1/8/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 9, 2001
• Thinning a deer skin (1/8/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 9, 2001
• How to use Bruce Rittel's Safetee Acid ? (1/8/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Monday, January 8, 2001
• Washing a Tanned Cape (1/8/01)
  Size: 2K. Last Modified: Monday, January 8, 2001
• How do they get those cape's so nice? (1/8/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Friday, January 19, 2001
• Tannying a elk hide need help (1/7/01)
  Size: 2K. Last Modified: Monday, January 8, 2001
• Locking for tanning supplyes in ok state (1/7/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Monday, January 8, 2001
• Elk hoofs for gun racks (1/7/01)
  Size: 2K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 7, 2001
• Warped tumbler (1/7/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Thursday, January 11, 2001
• If you need Bruce's home number... (1/7/01)
  Size: 2K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 7, 2001
• Coating coming off (1/7/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Monday, January 8, 2001
• Whisker Removal for Tanning (1/7/01)
  Size: 2K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 7, 2001
• Tanning beaver hides - Pelt shrinkage if wet tan? (1/7/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Monday, January 8, 2001
• Floating Capes (1/6/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 7, 2001
• Oiling taned skins (1/6/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Sunday, January 7, 2001
• Lost one / Need advice (1/6/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Saturday, January 6, 2001
• When to flesh? (1/5/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Saturday, January 6, 2001
• For Kieth Daniels (1/5/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Saturday, January 6, 2001
• Converting a dryer to a tumbler (1/5/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 9, 2001
• Help with fleshing fox (1/5/01)
  Size: 9K. Last Modified: Friday, January 5, 2001
• Ostrich Tanning (1/5/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Friday, January 5, 2001
• Lutan-F or EZ -100 (1/5/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Saturday, January 6, 2001
• Any one have use the fiber glass fleshing beams of Vandykes (1/5/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Thursday, January 11, 2001
• Round knife/flesher for sale (1/4/01)
  Size: 2K. Last Modified: Friday, January 5, 2001
• Question for anyone using a pressure tanner (1/4/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Thursday, January 4, 2001
• Para-Soft Tanning Oil (Moisture Meter?) (1/4/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Thursday, January 4, 2001
• Rehydrating prior to tanning (1/4/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Thursday, January 4, 2001
• Tanning (1/3/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Thursday, January 4, 2001
• Sheep Skin (1/3/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Thursday, January 4, 2001
• How obtain pure crystal of potash alum? (1/3/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 3, 2001
• EZ-100 and Autotanner (1/2/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 3, 2001
• frozen bear (1/2/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 3, 2001
• Capemaster Shaver (1/2/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 3, 2001
• Tips On Tanning (1/2/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 2, 2001
• Bobcat tanning for rug (1/1/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 2, 2001
• I Need Fleshing Machine ! (1/1/01)
  Size: 6K. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 2, 2001
• Saftee acid, Bruce ! (1/1/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Monday, January 1, 2001
• Do I need to shave a fox hide (1/1/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Friday, January 5, 2001
• What's the diff? (1/1/01)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Monday, January 1, 2001
• Hardwood Sawdust (1/1/01)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Monday, January 1, 2001
• Never Skinned Need Help (1/1/01)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Saturday, January 13, 2001
• OK DP folks (1/1/01)
  Size: 33K. Last Modified: Saturday, January 6, 2001