do you flesh a cape for the tannery. Or just skin him out and split the lpis ears eyes. And salt it. Thanks for the help
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they all are a little different on how they want the items to come in. Some charge alot per hour to do EXTA work to your capes or furs. Brad
I flesh the face good, that means around the nose, lips, eyes and ducts, around the ears, remove all red meat and fat on a beam with a knife, then double salt heavely. Fleshing means just that, not thinning the hide, thats what the tannery does. When you do a good job at this point the salt gets right to the hair roots and locks them in faster. Never have slipping problems like I here on these forums. A little more time spent seems to be insurance that a cape will always ture out good in the end. If a cape is iffy, It has a better chance to slip at a tannery then at home, you can keep an closer eye on your single job than the bulk of jobs a tannery does at a time. I work part time and the 35 jobs I've sent out to the tannery and tanned myself , one cape had a dime size slip area, I actually think it was from ticks, and one cape was left around for 6 days, started to smell from excess blood and decay came back great. I spend about an hour and a half to two hours just turning and fleshing a cape, but I think its the most important step of the whole process to insure a good final product...Paul
cant be a taxidermist asking this question