Should I use bactericide or stop rot on green capes before fleshing? after I wash the cape.
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Try it and you will keep using it! here is the link. http://www.hidetanning.net/STOP-ROTarticles.html Joe
Jose, apply the STOP-ROT on the flesh side of the cape on a soon as possible basis.
One of the side benefits of STOP-ROT is that it makes fleshing much easier, whether by hand or machine. If you were to wash the cape first, the slimy membrane (called the hypodermis) will swell with water, and that can slow down fluid passages back and forth through the membrane.
STOP-ROT will penetrate through this membrane, and firm it up so that it fleshes easier. If you flesh off big pieces of meat or fat and can see where the STOP-ROT hasn't reached (and you can see this pretty easily), just keep a little handy in a cup and dab some more on to those spots with a paint brush.
When you're ready to wash, use nothing but good old fashioned water.
Then when you go to the salting step, you will see that the salt draws fluids that remain in the skin much faster, and if you salt dry, the cape will also dry much faster.
It doesn't get much easier or simple.