Many of you know some of the ways I've put Whitetail Designer Systems to the test, and my "first hand" belief in this product.....I though I would pass on an email from a customer who has REALLY put it to the test.
Her email
Hello,
Wow, that was fast! Usually Priority is like, 3-5 days. It got here in 2 days though.
Now to the nitty gritty. I put Stop Rot to the test. I am a terrible
skeptic. First of all I have my suspicions about what the product is. (an aliphatic aldehyde) So with that in mind.
You know I was recently shipped a box of chinchillas. They spent 2.75 days in transit (temp. was 32 or above most of the time) and then I couldn't skin them all on Day 1, so I re-froze many. The chinchillas were properly shipped and packed in styrofoam, and did not smell when I removed them.
You know how thawing goes though. When you are thawing a baby animal who died of an intestinal disease.. smell and green belly are bound to happen.
I chucked a few of these rotting carcasses. Left them fully thawed, sealed loosely inside plastic bags, in the dark, warm moist garbage can.
Chinchillas are the easiest fur-bearer to slip. You can slip them by merely scooting your finger on them wrong. It is an evolutionary adaptation of theirs to escape predators, as they have NO natural weapons (claws, sharp teeth). So the stage is set for a slippy, smelly, nasty mess.
Then the Stop Rot arrived!
I was all double gloved up. So I held my nose and fished one of the rotting carcasses out of the trash. It smelled very bad and the belly was bloated and gooey. I was grossed out, so in my haste, I literally ripped a huge chunk of backskin off. Figured that would be a great field test because you simply can NOT handle a chinchilla more WRONG. :)
There were green edges on this bit and also a bloody area in the center.
The entire bit is from a juvenile animal (unprime). I shook the Stop-Rot, and applied it with the paintbrush. Watched the dermal tissues gel and coagulate. Figured.. ok harumph, that's just what I SEE - gelling can occur from acds too - will it slip? So I took it in my hand, warmed it a little (again, warming up a green skin = not good), then I over-fleshed it a
little in 1 spot with a steak knife. Re-painted the exposed hair roots with Stop-Rot.
THEN not only did I not salt to set hair.. I popped it right into
degreaser! Not even pickle! So here we go, spoiled skin going right into HIGH pH, not Low pH.. recipe for slip spots followed to a Tee.
I fished that bit out of the degreaser 1/2 hr later with the rest of the chinchillas.. NO SLIP
Stop-Rot is a scary product. (i.e. TOO effective) You bet this will go on my russian sables.
Take care,
M. Rider (Gorgeous Furs)
happy client
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ordered some can't wait to try it some mammal skins that might be on the border line of slipping.