or thought of trying to use a hand held planer to shave a hide? Like the kind you shave wood with. Just curious if you stretched hide tight on flat surface if the planer blade wood shave.
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I though about using a grinder to flesh and thin the hide, anyone think that would work? A planer I think would just shred it. Don't know though.
I know of a business who uses a dremmel. They showed me how to do it. I personally like the old fashioned way
Scott, I'm not sure if I'd try that. If your just trying to stretch the hide, I use a piece of rounded lathe. You can even put you cape on the fleshing beam and gently use a dull fleshin knife. If your thinning your cape in the face, eyes, nose, mouth, and around the ear butts and the stringy stuff on the backs of the ears, I use my dremel. It works great. I'm just givin you what works for me.
What are you using in your dremel to flesh around the face?
hs, use a barrel sander on your dremel tool, use the coarse grit one, just watch for overheating while using it, and ya might want to wear a face sheild, it throws that stuff everywhere lol, good luck, Derek
a good sharp knife.
if your talking shaving nothing will beat the round knife(fleshing machine)
if your talking fleshing there are a lot more options
knife,pressure washer,beam knife,wire wheel etc.
hs! Derek is right, with using the sander. And yes make sure you wear goggles or safety glasses. one of those little masks wouldn't be bad either. You get allot of junk on your mustache.
a tire buffing wheel. I manage a tire shop and am a beginner in taxidermy. May have to experiment a little.