I sent 15-20 salted capes to a relatively new tannery a year ago. They all seemed fine. (I have been using another tannery for 10 years without a problem). I wanted to try their wet tan. Almost every one has had some degree of slippage. Some are unmountable. They folks at the tannery have not helped much. An employee said they had an acid problem this fall, the owner seems to think it's my fault. I sent them the capes in january and got them back in late September. Like I said, they were all dry salted. Anyone have any ideas or similar experiences with wet tan? I followed their handling instructions to the letter. I have found the slippage once the capes thawed out. Not after the reccommended rince.
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Craig,
Get yourself a machine and do your own. It's the only way to make money. You can buy a Quebec Lite delivered to your shop for less than $550.00 A cape takes 30 minutes to flesh, you do it on your own time, complete controle, better quality, deliver your mounts much faster.
If you need help to organise, or anyone else that reads this post, give me a call, 1-800-567-5080 I'v done it for 30 years. Faster, better quality, no slippage and darn more profitable.
Gerry
I would like to know who this is if you would e-mail me had trouble with a tannery last summer and a freind had a problem similar to yours
Thank you
Graig, I don't know where you sent your capes and don't want to know !
But, slipping problems on capes can be very hard to pin down. Doing your own
capes may be the answer if have the time and know how to get the job done
or you might be making yourself a lot of headaches. If skins are treated
right from the time of death on-- then a tanner should have no problems
with them. We are a new tanner, opened our doors to full time
tanning in 1998 (full time taxidermist before, started in 1981)and have
only had 16 skins that we could not tan so they could be mounted. 11 belonged
to the same guy ! So if you would like, let me know your exact proccess and I will help
you find out. I'm not trying to get your tanning work as we have all we can
handle and then some, and aren't taking new clients for a while.
E-mail me or we could talk on phone. Van