There are several ways to rehydrate and this forum has covered most of them. However I have learned the fastest and most $ effecent way is to soak in water and Kemal4. this will rehyd. and allow you to do a light fleshing before placing in a pickling solution and proceeding in the normal fashion. This process was learned recently do to a customer bringing in a flint dried hide for mounting. The mount is now completed and we got excellent strech without any slippage.
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I do the same thing using Ultra Soft. No salt or bacteria reducing liquids. Not really new, just simple.
Thats the way I,ve been doing it for years,I guess I didn't realize I was ahead of the times-L.O.L.-John W.