Brain Tanning Hair On Part 2

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

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okay so we've had our brain tan beaver rolled up in this blanket for two days now and it's had the brain solution on the hide and we're going to take it out and start to further process it because now is when the real work begins other than the flushing and stretching of the high braining part is easy now is when the real work begins to start to dry The Hideout again to scrape and squeegee all the remaining moisture out of the hide and start to soften it up and break the hide and that's what we're getting ready to do now now there's a couple tools that you can use to help you with some of this process and I'm going to walk you through that as well one of them is a tool that you can just carry the head of the tool but you can't have this you can just carry the head of the tool and then make the handle for it on the fly and it's a multifunctional tool doesn't weigh a whole lot if you find the right one and again this was a fleamarket fine for me so I'll introduce you to that tool here in just a few minutes as well stay with me one of the tools that I find comes in pretty handy when I'm doing this as this is an actual hoe is what it is but it's a really lightweight hoe and it's angle backwards it's kind of taper backwards just round it off because wore-out it's not real sharp it doesn't weigh a whole lot it's been folded over and welded here so it's fairly old but it works really good for a scraping device for scraping the hides and squeezing off the hides and it will work by hand or you can make a quick handle for it so we're going to make a quick handle for it today generally when I'm out collecting stuff any good handle material I find I grabbed a couple handles just for different things that I might need in camp and I think this one's going to work out more than fine for this it's actually bigger than I really need but it's about the right size looking at it trim it down and it should fit in there good and this type of tools made for the handles slide in from the top and be friction fit so that's a good thing because that means this handle is easy to replace nothing there for you mister for you

pretty good fit trim the end of it off there do a little bit of room for shrinkage good solid fit around here she'd be a good tool and this is kind of opening up the pores a little bit too as you're doing this and helping to break the hide still got a lot of moisture in his heart just going to have to go so this is a tedious process and you just have to take your time with it I've got an offshoot here growing out of this maple when you've got a smaller tree growing out from the bottom you've got some separation here this can be good for a lot of things but we're going to chop this thing off we're going to use this for our steak for breaking or hide over because the first thing we're going to do

now we don't want this to be real sharp so we just want it to be nice and rough so that's going to work out pretty good now Guinness really now just becomes a game of drawing this thing out keeping it soft and working and keeping the dog off of it proof let's get back robust know if you got areas around this hide where you got holes like leg holes and I hold things like that you got to be careful around those areas but you really want to get all of this just as soft as you possibly can so you really have to work at all quit now you really have to work all of it especially the thicker edges around the face and stuff on a beaver if you want to get soft and around the backside all of that stuff is really important this is a cannot stop type situation because if this thing's any damp at all got any moisture in it left it's going to get hard again on you just like rawhide even though you've tanned it with the brain taint so set a day aside to do something like this because it may take you all day and the more humidity there is in the air the longer it's going to take for this hike to dry out on and you can go back and forth over by the fire and sit infront of your fire and do this and let that heat help dry it out a little bit but you do not want to get this thing hot by the fire because it'll just shrink the hide right up on you with that moisture in there quit now ridges so you've got to Rufus quit so you have to be cognizant of that and understand that this is an all-day process this is not something that takes a half an hour 45 minutes and it's done once you get to the point where you've got to break as high before you can smoke it will get it completely dry and broken it's an all-day job even for a small animal like his beaver and if it were a bigger animal like a deer before it's over with you'd be wishing you had two or three people helping