Well, I'm a beginner and I'm doing a badger rug. I'm going to skin it, salt it, Let it dry overnight, remove the salt and put a fresh coat on, let it sit overnight again, and then I'm going to flesh it. After fleshing I'm going to rinse the hide in lukewarm water, washing all oils and fat traces away. I'm going to dry the hide by surrounding it with towels for about 20 minutes. After that I'm going to pickle the hide and leave it in the solution for two weeks, stirring once a day in a plastic bucket. After the two weeks i'm going to remove the badger hide, hang it and let it drain for an hour. After all of this what should I do next? Am I doing anything wrong? What kind of mount would be a result of my method here? Please Help Me Out!
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I just looked at the McKenzie website and read the McKenzie Tan segment of the instructions. I'll go with this, but it leaves me with another question. Do I have to shave a badger hide because I really rather not do it. And to make the leather softer do I have to work the hide as it dries on the rug form?
Relax, and learn. You're first mount will look like a learning experience. Nobody gets good until they have done a dozen or so. You are making this into a saga. Skin it-two hours, flesh it- 1 hour, salt it- 5 minutes, let set for 24 hours, salt it again 24 hours, rinse in COLD water, 3 minutes, pickle 3 days, neutralize 30 minutes, rinse baking soda out, 5 minutes, roll in towel 10 minutes, tan with brush on tan, leave overnight in a bag in the fridge, mount the next day.
When you pickle, the last day of the three days, add a degreaser to the pickle for the last day. There now you have it. You had the salting and fleshing turned around on the first post.
But if the guy mounts the badger wet. Will that not make his rug stiff as a board when it dries.
Furtrapper. When They say shave the hide. They do not mean the hair. After 24 to 36 hours in the pickel the hide will plumpt. place on the fleshing beam, and thin in the same way you fleshed.
after tanning coat with softall oil. and allow to dry for a few days. pulling the hide to see if it is getting firm. when firn. NOT hard. Pull tug twist stretch the hide then apply more oil. Pul tug s twist and stretch regularly untill dry. It is not as easy as it sounds. but without a tumbler. it will get ur done
Didn't tell how to rug it.
he will be back again using a different name,Easton,Furtrapper, he has about three others too. Likes to repost the same questions everyday.
My Dad and brother also use this website on this same computer. We all use different names but have the same numbers. This badger rug I'm mounting is going to be a family project with me, my dad, and brother helping out on it to make it look real good. We've reposted questions before because our previous ones didn't get answered and we want to have everything planned before we start.
you should get together on the same page then and post together. Do you have a rug video?
I don't have a rug mounting video and I've posted a couple of questions asking on where to find one. No one has answered me or given me any suggestions yet though.