I just skinned my first fox that I am going to mount, and succeeded very well, no holes whatsoever. I usually do pretty well on skinning, it's just fleshing is when I screw up. I have a lot of membrane to flesh off, and I plan to salt for three hours to help it to be easier to get all the membrane off. Then I'll continue tanning with Liqua-Tan after I put it in a pickle and neutralizing and washing and so forth. My concern is, since I'm using the bonded ear method, not earliners, the ear getting hard and shriveling up and more importantly the hair in the ears slipping while it's salting. What do I do? Can I turn the ears and spray them with alchohol periodcally, or what will work? Thanks a lot.
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as long as you have a good hide to start with. Turn the ears right away and salt inside and out and you will be fine.
Lee
That would be your best choice if your not sure about what your doing and even if you do it's still a great choice.
Now if your getting slippage with the bondo ear method you have a few things you can do to here. One is to try a different method here.
Epo-Grip has a great product out that is specialy formated for those who like the bondo ear method. It doesn't get hot like bondo will (which can cause slippage) if you mix up to much hardner with it. It's a two part mix sets up just right and gives you a much better looking ear.
Other wise if you like the bondo method use less hardner but give Epo-Grip a try.
I would salt a little to help get the fleshing, turning, and spliting done. Then finish salting at let it dry hard to set the hair...then rehydrate and proceed.
I'm assuming that setting hair by salting can generaly be applied to most mammals.