http://photobucket.com/albums/b24/jrosbor/STOP-ROT%20save/
I sent Glen an email describing the situation.
Yo Glen! Could you c/p that email for me? It would take me like 3hrs to retype it. I forgot to save it! Thanks!
Joe
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to type with a finger on the other hand too. Cuts that time in half. I know these things.
Joe's e-mail:
Yo Glen!
Purdy deer isn't it? There is a story behind this deer. I thought it would be of some interest to you.
Yesterday on the forums someone had asked about STOP-ROT's application on a deer that was whole in 30-50deg temps for a few days.
I know you can't see it, But there is a small slip spot just below the antler base in photo "1". That's the only slippage this deer had! No big deal I know. But wait there's more! This deer was harvested on November 20th 2004 and was caped out November 28th 2004 with 30-50deg temps all that week. The head was left in and the cape placed in a trash bag with holes poked in it to "let it breath" (I didn't do this) and stored in a frost free freezer. The cape was brought to me on September 30th 2005. You should have seen the lips nose and eyes on this bad boy. Not to mention the ears! Oh my God,I now wish I had taken some pictures! I went to work on this one right away. I did notice a small slip spot below the antler base on the right side. I applied STOP-ROT to the freezer burned areas when the
cape was still frozen and the slip spot was also treated at this time. As I let the cape thaw out, I noticed the burned areas were softened up but the skin was still rock hard. The cape was tubed so I couldn't just open it up to apply the STOP-ROT. I ended up using a "sleeve"(long glove for breeding cows) and a STOP-ROT soaked rag and pried the cape apart to apply it to the flesh side. Not fun! But the skin did start to soften up in a few hours!
By the next day the cape was soft and could be cut and opened up. It still had a few hard spots so I gave it another application of STOP-ROT to the flesh side and to the burned areas as I split and turned them. I still can't believe how easy it was to turn the ears! I just held a small pool of STOP-ROT ahead of my ear openers. As I came near the middle of the ears they turned with ease.
After the cape was turned, I gave it a quick soak in a mild acid pickle using the test acid you sent me and another light coat of STOP-ROT. This was the last time I used STOP-ROT on this cape. In all I ended up using only about 10 or 12oz of STOP-ROT on this cape.
The cape was then tanned using WTDS. To my surprise there was NO slippage on this cape other than that small spot below the antler. As you can see around the eyes, NO sloughing. AND I did not touch the ears with paint. That is the color they were before tanning.
I should also note that this is the cape that had "too much stretch" I actually used the next size up for the form and still had a lot of extra skin around the ears. You can see it is bunched up a little above the ears.
I am a commercial taxidermist. So this deer wouldn't win any awards at any show. But STOP-ROT definitely saved me a big pain in the A$$ trying to hunt down a new cape.
Thanks for the great products!
Joseph R Osborn
Hunter's Dream Taxidermy
Joe, I've been trying to get around to doing a "real life" situations page on hidetanning.net in the STOP-ROT section. Would it be O.K. if I use a photo or two of yours and a copy of the e-mail?
Thanks for sharing your experience and photos.
Glen
Thanks Glen!
I tried rubbing it on the rusted fenders, on my old truck ; no change yet!
When I sent the email to Glen, The first picture was the one showing the slip spot. On the link it's "picture004.jpg" it's in the area where I bunched up some of the extra skin so it's well hidden. Joe