I use Ben Meyers spray tan to mount my deer. What I would like to know is salting just as good as sodium sulfate in this method? Which method do you use on either of these. Thanks for your suggestions.
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I think salting Is something most people do initially to keep the cape till later?you could flesh everything lips & such and Into tan Immediately if you want or If your using D.P you could Immediately
skin flesh & mount all consecutively
It's just that Imagine you were In deep hunting country were you had to ride horse back to get In and you were going to be In a few days
then perhaps it needs to be fleshed and salted and rolled up In a plastic bag & taken out by horse back
I think your wrong. Salting is the first step in any tanning process. It set the hair in the hide, plus removes all unwanted moisture thats in the hide. If you skip the proper steps in the tanning process, your not getting a true tan.
Opps your right forgot..!
would you be on that horse with a rolled up salted skin in a plastic bag before it started to rot?
no salt on spray tan.the only thing i do different than Ben Mears intructions is i paint Stop Rot on capes first.i really think this improves process. this is not a tan however it is a much better finished product than DP.
The Sodium Sulfate is essential to Ben's process. DO NOT substitute Sodium Chloride (salt) for it. This is a love / hate topic on this forum, so get ready.
The directions, dont substitute any step.I use bens spray tan also. And am having great results with it.A word to the wise dont try and take a simple way out .The sodium sulfate really works well in locking in the hair on the hide i think personally i use to much but i dont want anything falling out.lol
i was using sodium sulfate but it got too expensive for my budget,the feed salt i get now is doing just as good of a job for me.i use a salt soak also.i havent had any slippage and i use spray tan.
I have a problem with some of these tanning methods.If spray tan,liquid tan,and all these other tanning substatutes where the best tanning method,would you not think that tanneries would use these tanning methods.Unless you send out your skins to the tannery,you are doing alot of work for nothing.
1. skin out your dead head,split the lips nose eyes ears.
2. remove all large peices of flesh.
3.pickeling solution:
4. 55 u.s. gallons 1 lbs of salt to each gallon of water,1 quart of
formic acid, 4 lbs of ALUM.
5. place raw ( UNSALTED ) skin in pickling after you submerce the skin
in the pickling do not touch until the next day
( be sure PH 1.5 to 2.5 )
6. the alum will cook the the meat,fat and the next day you can flesh
it off with your fleshing machine,if you still have raw looking
spots put the skin back in pickling for another day.
7. aftyer skin is completely pickled. ( NUTRALIZE THE SKIN )
8. place in tanning you will get a good tanning.
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