Tanning first coon. Help !

Submitted by Luke on 12/17/2002. ( ) 198.245.32.20

I'm tanning my first coon. I've been reading the archives and searching the net. My questions are: I scraped off the fat and salted the hide. It is now rock-hard. In the archives it talks of re-hydrating solution, pickling solution, and then the actual tanning. What is all this ? Also i recieved from a friend a tanning solution call Kan-Tan. It's old and i can't find any information about it on the net. Can tanning solution go bad ? ( it's a paint on tan ) Most of the directions have rubbed off the bottle. All i can read is it says to "paint onto wet salted hide" Can i skip the pickling and just re-hydrate and paint this stuff on ? Help i'm lost ?

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Luke

This response submitted by b bishop on 12/17/2002. ( bishops@newnorthdotnet ) 209.83.43.189

Please go to my article at www.TaxidermyReference.com and go to the " how to articles page 2" and then to basics of tanning. when you finish, and if you still have a ? please e-mail me and I will explain it to you. Brad


Tanning first coon.

This response submitted by steve Johanningmeier on 12/17/2002. ( clowntown35@hotmail.com ) 207.28.0.5

I have used taning kits and I was not inpresset with them, To get the
skin soft try brain taning I have goten the best resolts from brain taning.


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