February 2003 Archives
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• Making buckskin, do I (02/28/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Saturday, March 01, 2003
• Sponsorship opportunity at Oxford University! (02/28/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Friday, February 28, 2003
• 2 Part question - Fleshing blade guards (02/28/2003)
  Size: 6K. Last Modified: Saturday, March 01, 2003
• African red mold (02/27/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Friday, February 28, 2003
• Beginner interested in rabbits (02/27/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 27, 2003
• Hide turned yellow (02/27/2003)
  Size: 6K. Last Modified: Friday, February 28, 2003
• WB Place (02/26/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 27, 2003
• Odor in my cape (02/26/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 27, 2003
• Am I going to save money or am I wasting my time tanning (02/26/2003)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Friday, February 28, 2003
• Coon and EZ-100 (02/25/2003)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Thursday, March 06, 2003
• Have Questions about skins (02/25/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 27, 2003
• Fleshing (02/25/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 26, 2003
• How much salt in a pound (02/25/2003)
  Size: 6K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 26, 2003
• Krowwtan (02/24/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 27, 2003
• Thanks to all ... But two more questions... (02/24/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Monday, February 24, 2003
• Full steps for making nice and soft leather from trout skin (02/24/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Monday, February 24, 2003
• Raw boar cape tannery (02/23/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Monday, February 24, 2003
• Tanning a deer hide (02/23/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Sunday, February 23, 2003
• Looking for tannery in Canada (02/22/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Sunday, February 23, 2003
• Fleshing for a tannery (02/22/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 27, 2003
• Fleshing and Tanning (02/22/2003)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 25, 2003
• Tanning or leathering carp/burbot skin (02/22/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Sunday, February 23, 2003
• Need a Southwestern Tannery from Texas to Arizona (02/22/2003)
  Size: 2K. Last Modified: Saturday, February 22, 2003
• Not sure what to do with (02/22/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Saturday, February 22, 2003
• Residual tan or salt residue (02/22/2003)
  Size: 6K. Last Modified: Sunday, February 23, 2003
• Fairly new, need advice on a stopping point for furs (02/21/2003)
  Size: 8K. Last Modified: Thursday, March 06, 2003
• Pickling but not Tanning!? (02/21/2003)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Sunday, February 23, 2003
• Reusing solutions (02/20/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Friday, February 21, 2003
• Pickle acid choices ... need advice, please (02/20/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 20, 2003
• Can I substitute EZ-100 for Kwik-N-Eze (02/20/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 20, 2003
• Need good tanner near Georgia for beaver (02/20/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 20, 2003
• [A supply company]'s e-z dry tan (02/19/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 20, 2003
• Tan quality follow-up (02/19/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 20, 2003
• Need advice from bruce rittle (02/19/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 19, 2003
• Hair slipping (02/18/2003)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 19, 2003
• Question on tan quality (02/18/2003)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 19, 2003
• Help! How to remove odor from fox fur blanket (02/18/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 18, 2003
• Help! Bruce EZ-100 ? (02/18/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 18, 2003
• Are solariams worse for you that the Sun? (02/18/2003)
  Size: 6K. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 18, 2003
• Removing hair off a deer hide! (02/17/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 18, 2003
• Fleshing a whitetail deer skin (02/17/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Monday, February 17, 2003
• Sending out capes to a tannery (02/16/2003)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Monday, February 17, 2003
• Old Days (02/16/2003)
  Size: 7K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 19, 2003
• How to make hides soft and supple? (02/16/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 19, 2003
• Need a good, fair-priced tannery (02/16/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Monday, February 17, 2003
• New to Tanning, Want to tan small sheep hides (02/16/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Sunday, February 16, 2003
• Salted or Tanned (02/15/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Sunday, February 16, 2003
• Using glycerine (02/14/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Saturday, February 15, 2003
• Depigmentation (HELP) (02/14/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Saturday, February 15, 2003
• UltraSoft from Bruce Rittel (02/14/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Saturday, February 15, 2003
• Question for Bruce Rittle (02/14/2003)
  Size: 6K. Last Modified: Sunday, February 16, 2003
• Tanning Crystals and EZ-100? (02/14/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Saturday, February 15, 2003
• Moyle tannery recommendation (02/13/2003)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Friday, February 14, 2003
• USA salt & dry cape Rehydration methods, did search ... but (02/13/2003)
  Size: 11K. Last Modified: Monday, February 17, 2003
• Krowtann Question (02/13/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Friday, February 14, 2003
• EZ100 (02/13/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 13, 2003
• Brain tan (02/13/2003)
  Size: 2K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 13, 2003
• Salt (02/12/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 13, 2003
• pH (02/12/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 12, 2003
• Kwikneze, and sewing (02/12/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 12, 2003
• Tanning Product Distributors (02/12/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 13, 2003
• Acid Bate ... Shelf life (02/11/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 12, 2003
• Salt, cell membranes (02/11/2003)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 11, 2003
• EZ 100 Measurements (02/11/2003)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 11, 2003
• Liqua Soft (02/10/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 11, 2003
• I'm not a chemistry teacher. I'm a chiropractor. (02/10/2003)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 11, 2003
• Looking for a good tanner! (02/10/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Friday, February 14, 2003
• Raw hide for dog chews (02/10/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Sunday, February 16, 2003
• Krowtan (02/10/2003)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Monday, February 10, 2003
• Can you add Aluminum Sulphate Ground during pickle (02/09/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Monday, February 10, 2003
• Question about Ultra-Soft (02/09/2003)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Sunday, February 09, 2003
• Question for DMDC (02/08/2003)
  Size: 6K. Last Modified: Monday, February 10, 2003
• Just a comment on Bill's "cheap shot" about water softening. (02/08/2003)
  Size: 7K. Last Modified: Monday, February 10, 2003
• Worried about tanning my 2nd squirrel (02/08/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Saturday, February 08, 2003
• What can I use to take smell out of some bear claws i have (02/08/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 13, 2003
• Fisher cat (02/08/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Saturday, February 08, 2003
• Physiologic answer to why salt is so important (02/07/2003)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Monday, February 10, 2003
• EZ100 (02/07/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Saturday, February 08, 2003
• Homemade Fleshing Machine (02/07/2003)
  Size: 12K. Last Modified: Sunday, February 09, 2003
• Krowtann vs. EZ100 (02/06/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Friday, February 07, 2003
• Bruce R. (02/06/2003)
  Size: 2K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 06, 2003
• Lipoderm in Bulk (02/06/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 06, 2003
• Chrome Tanning in the Autotanner (02/06/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 06, 2003
• Borax and me (02/05/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Friday, February 07, 2003
• Tanning solutions (02/05/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 06, 2003
• Liquid tan (02/05/2003)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Thursday, February 06, 2003
• Tanning small and medium size game (02/05/2003)
  Size: 6K. Last Modified: Friday, February 07, 2003
• Michigan Tannery (I have some work for you) (02/05/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 05, 2003
• Pickling acids (02/05/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 05, 2003
• Need help on pickling (02/05/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 05, 2003
• Naptha buckskin (02/05/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Friday, February 07, 2003
• Grease Burn / Odor Removal (Skunk) (02/05/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 05, 2003
• Tanning a bison hide in Wisconsin. help please (02/05/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 05, 2003
• This is going to sound a little strange ....but (02/04/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 05, 2003
• Good general purpose tan, capes & hides? (02/04/2003)
  Size: 15K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 05, 2003
• Help - Mini tanning project (02/04/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 05, 2003
• pH (02/04/2003)
  Size: 8K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 05, 2003
• Oklahoma Tannery needed (02/04/2003)
  Size: 6K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 12, 2003
• Shaver (02/04/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 04, 2003
• Why is salt so important to this whole process? (02/04/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 04, 2003
• Question on tanning a de-haired deer hide (02/03/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 19, 2003
• Squirrel tanning (02/03/2003)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 05, 2003
• Oiling (02/03/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 04, 2003
• Screwed up tan (02/03/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Monday, February 03, 2003
• Can't get the membrane off a green fox pelt (02/03/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 04, 2003
• Still Going Strong @ DCT (02/03/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Monday, February 03, 2003
• What causes hair slippage? (02/02/2003)
  Size: 9K. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 04, 2003
• Problem rehydrating hard feet (02/02/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 04, 2003
• Deer cape blood stained -purple? (02/02/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Monday, February 03, 2003
• What does Clorax have in them to make things turn white? (02/02/2003)
  Size: 4K. Last Modified: Friday, February 07, 2003
• Tannery PA. (Berks) looking for. (02/02/2003)
  Size: 6K. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 04, 2003
• Coon Question (02/02/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Sunday, February 02, 2003
• Buckskin vest (02/02/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Monday, February 03, 2003
• Another thing (02/02/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Sunday, February 02, 2003
• Tupentine/denatured alcohol (02/02/2003)
  Size: 6K. Last Modified: Saturday, March 01, 2003
• Beginner Whitetail Tanning? (02/02/2003)
  Size: 5K. Last Modified: Sunday, February 02, 2003
• Liqua Tan - Washing and moisture (02/01/2003)
  Size: 6K. Last Modified: Monday, February 03, 2003
• Restoring weathered antlers (02/01/2003)
  Size: 3K. Last Modified: Saturday, February 22, 2003