My little squaw's first hooped beaver
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We used vine maple for the hoop and it cured for about four weeks in my drying room. It ended up kind of getting pulled in with the lacing so there is not as much space between pelt and hoop as I would have liked. Still turned out pretty good for a first attempt I think.
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Re: My little squaw's first hooped beaver
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Now if I can just talk her into doing another 20! LOL
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Re: My little squaw's first hooped beaver
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Definitely an art to the right sized hoop to start with but for the first attempt you did great!
Chris I didn't do nothing. I just handed her the pelt, the hoop, an awl and some rawhide.
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Re: My little squaw's first hooped beaver
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Definitely an art to the right sized hoop to start with but for the first attempt you did great!
Chris I didn't do nothing. I just handed her the pelt, the hoop, an awl and some rawhide. Better yet! Chris
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Re: My little squaw's first hooped beaver
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Thanks Mole.
We offered it up for sale at the OTC sale in Klamath Falls but I think the high bid was only $60 so we took it home. Now that she figured out how to do them I figure that I can skin my larges and smaller with tail-on, get them tanned for $25 and then find vine maples to make hoops and have a regular factory. LOL I think it took her a little over an hour to do that one but much of that time was figuring out what she was doing.
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Re: My little squaw's first hooped beaver
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Now if I can just talk her into doing another 20! LOL Beaverpealer, knowing how many you can stack up, I can see her picking and choosing when she wants to do them. Looks really nice!
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Re: My little squaw's first hooped beaver
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Jmack, I really like the look of yours. That's what I aim for the next time around is to get that distance between hoop and pelt.
That part was on me.
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