what causes some nose pads to have wrinkles in them during the drying process and others not. They can be hidden during finishing stages i know but what is the cause?
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You're not getting your skin thinned down.
Start putting some holes in your nosepads, and nostril skin...and you'll know just how thin you can get:)
Seriously! If you ain't cutting holes once in a while...you're probably too thick.
Jim
My noses are thinned enough and I hardly ever cut any holes. You want where the whole nose pad is showing through on the opposite side. That is when you have it thin enough, not when you cut holes. Cutting holes just makes it look like crap.
Until I started pushing the boundaries of what I thought was "thin enough", I had wrinkling, pulling, and the inability to have my hide stay where I put it.
Cutting holes...makes it look like crap?
That makes me smile ear to ear.
I wish I had a dollar for all the holes I've sewn up. Made by the tannery, sloppy african skinner, or even myself. I took a first place at the 2001 World Taxidermy Championships with a Whitetail that had a large wart in the almost hairless area...1 inch below his eye, also...a 1 inch by 6 inch rub spot on top of shoulders, and 1 inch by 5 inch brisket rubbed raw from breeding. I cut out all bad areas, and repaired.
Oh yeah, also stuck my thumb through 1 1/2" ear edge while turning it.
Never lost a point on any of the holes that were cut out:)
Hey, its only taxidermy...
repairs are what separate the good from my great. My opinion.
:)
Jim
Seems like all I do is fix holes. If the hunter doesn't cause them, then I do, if I don't then the tannery does it for me, LOL.
I use a golf ball under the nose area while thinning the leather. Once you start see the impression from the golf ball then you are thin enough.
did it?