36 in the tub
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Re: 36 in the tub
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04/14/15 06:17 PM
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What a dissapointment, I thought you were talking about girls!
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Re: 36 in the tub
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hummmmmmm wondering how that would work with some rabbit pelts
I got some white rabbit skins im gonna try my hand at. I bought them of someone to use as bait/attractant for k9. didn't use them all. so, why not tan em?
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Re: 36 in the tub
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Those blocks are going to be tough to soften ! my wife said the same thing. only i thought she was serious when she said it! lol, I felt kind of dumb when I tried to explain to her what they were for. 
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Re: 36 in the tub
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04/14/15 06:32 PM
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hummmmmmm wondering how that would work with some rabbit pelts
I got some white rabbit skins im gonna try my hand at. I bought them of someone to use as bait/attractant for k9. didn't use them all. so, why not tan em? i raise silver fox rabbits and want to tan some fur for trying to make mittens and such.
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Re: 36 in the tub
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04/19/15 09:59 PM
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 they are out of the pickle, neutralized, and in the Tan I lost a fox in the pickle. don't know if it was the hide itself (it had a green belly), if I rung it out to hard, or if it was the solution? I noticed last year that coon and yote were quite durable when handling them as far as ringing them out etc... but muskrat were not! I pulled the fur out of a rat last year doing so. but when I finished tanning it. the fur that was left was good to go. im starting to think that the thinner skinned critters need to be handled a little differently? such as fox, op and rat? I will be done with this load around this time tmrw. then it will be breaking and oiling time
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Re: 36 in the tub
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04/19/15 10:01 PM
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im gonna tell ya now that ya don't wanna do a 14 hour shift then have to sort through 36 wet skins!
wow
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Re: 36 in the tub
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04/19/15 10:29 PM
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im gonna tell ya now that ya don't wanna do a 14 hour shift then have to sort through 36 wet skins!
wow lol no that makes for a long day. Don
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Re: 36 in the tub
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04/19/15 10:45 PM
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I've been using Rittle's products for years and have tanned dozens and dozens of pelts with nothing but great results.
Did you know you can leave pelts in the safety acid almost indefinitely? I "forgot" about a few beaver when the bucket they were in got shoved under a bench in the fur shed. I found them over a year later, rinsed and tanned as normal and they turned out great.
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Re: 36 in the tub
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04/20/15 09:52 AM
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will be pulling them out in 9 hours!  for you that tan a lot of hides: last year after I pulled them from the tan solution I put them in another solution with dish soap to give them one final cleaning and degreasing before I started the drying/oiling/breaking process. it worked as far as I could tell except for them smelling like dawn dish soap when they dried. so this year I got some sentless dish soap and hair conditioner. so I will do two additional bathes. one final cleaning then a conditioning. any advice or opinions on that?
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Re: 36 in the tub
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04/20/15 11:31 AM
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I'm watching this closely. I have some grey foxes to tan. Might tan more if these go well.
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Re: 36 in the tub
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04/21/15 05:10 PM
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What was the pH in your pickle? right around a 1 when I started. but that don't mean it stayed there once I added the coon in. I only tested ph twice. once before I put coon in pickle and once before tan. I really just wanted to see how idiot proof this stuff really is this time around. last year I wanted to learn and see quality of final product. now I wanna see how far I can push it and how many I can do at one time.
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Re: 36 in the tub
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04/22/15 07:06 AM
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Looks pretty nice. I'm thinking this needs in the archives.
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