Looks great Boco.

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Hard to argue with that kind of put up. Did you give the shavings to you dog at least?

Beautiful work, shave hair and scrape a little more and you could use it for a cabin window.

Looks ok for a decrepite old man

You can do mine anytime....excellent work

Great job.

Wow.
So what's the next step.

You'll make a fine squaw for some lucky trapper.

My friend you baited us in . . . . you know that pelt is perfect and wanted to show off a bit. That is definitely headed for folk art. Please hoop it and save it for me.
You are certainly entitled to show off to people who not only understand and appreciate your skill, but also people who dream about having a registered trapline, the great talent and skills, and the equipment and gear to work and enjoy it.
We are still planning on making the drive up to visit you and explore your part of beautiful Canada. We want to see James Bay and Hudson’s Bay. Hopefully the people now in charge will not make it impossible to do that.
Keep enjoying life!

Hopefully the covid BS will be over soon.
Willy,if you want to,shoot me a pm on here when you are ready to head up here and I will give you my contact info and maybe we can get together for a coffee at least.

Frost Scraped ?

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So do you finish up by freeze drying them? Or take them in and dry with room heat? I love the looks of freeze dryed pelts.

Very nice work. Did you use a nail gun or tap them in by hand?

That's dern NICE!!!

I dry the skins normally at a cool temp around 10c.They dry in 2 -3 days at that temp.At room temp a frost scraped beaver will dry overnight.
Dont have extended periods of cold enough weather anymore to properly frost dry the skins.
Need about 10 days to 2 weeks of minus 40 to do a proper job of frost drying.
I nail by hand,nails are the standard 1 in apart.



A stack of frost scraped beaver.

You pound all them nails by hand???? I tried that for a while, but my thumb was so swollen and black & blue, I bought a nail gun. Also, I don't have the patience to pound that many nails. Exceptional job!

Those are pinning nails,they go in with one tap with a small tac hammer,no pounding,lol.When I am boarding a beaver I take a couple handfuls of the nails,spread them around the perimeter of the skin and just tap them in One tap per.Only takes maybe two minutes.
The nails are standard 1 inch apart.

Nice !!!!