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•••mink fleshing beam•••? #7196664
02/26/21 11:17 AM
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Wanting to build a mink only flesh beam. Use a 2x4? or i have 2" and 3" and 4" pvc pipe. (My stretchers dont allow fleshing on the stretcher)
Suggestions welcome thanks!

Last edited by the Blak Spot; 03/24/21 11:02 PM.

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Re: •••mink fleshing beam•••? [Re: the Blak Spot] #7196764
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I would suggest you just buy or make a female mink board and use it for fleshing.

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Re: •••mink fleshing beam•••? [Re: the Blak Spot] #7196794
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I do have an old mink stretcher, but it is only 1/4" thick and flimsy. Can i just use that as a pattern and make one from 3/4" board?


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Re: •••mink fleshing beam•••? [Re: the Blak Spot] #7196802
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Yes


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Re: •••mink fleshing beam•••? [Re: the Blak Spot] #7197294
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Not sure that I would make it 3/4 in thick. 1/2 would be plenty

Re: •••mink fleshing beam•••? [Re: the Blak Spot] #7197380
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Make a mink bat.


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Re: •••mink fleshing beam•••? [Re: Boco] #7197814
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Originally Posted by Boco
Make a mink bat.

Mink bat?


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Re: •••mink fleshing beam•••? [Re: the Blak Spot] #7197990
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Yea,a lot of the old timers used a wooden cone shaped bat to flesh mink and a bigger Otter bat for otter.


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Re: •••mink fleshing beam•••? [Re: the Blak Spot] #7198012
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Something that Is FLAT will get the job done a lot quicker than scraping on a round surface.

Hey Boco do you cut the ears and noses off your mink? LOl

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Re: •••mink fleshing beam•••? [Re: the Blak Spot] #7199540
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No I cut the whole head off-why dick around with little stuff.


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Re: •••mink fleshing beam•••? [Re: Boco] #7220700
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Originally Posted by Boco
Make a mink bat.

For scraping rats and mink here’s what I use, mink board is on a hinge so I can use it for rats and mink. By far my favorite fur handling for mink would be the round birch to the right, this may classify as Boco’s “Mink Bat” it came out of an abandoned trapping cabin in Canada years ago. The bottom pic shows the cone shape of the Bat.
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Re: •••mink fleshing beam•••? [Re: the Blak Spot] #7220791
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Mink need very little scrapping so I just lay It on my rat beam and hold It In place with one hand and use my rat scraper with the other hand.


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Re: •••mink fleshing beam•••? [Re: the Blak Spot] #7223808
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Re: •••mink fleshing beam•••? [Re: the Blak Spot] #7224485
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Are you removing the saddle? I've been told you don't need to do that.


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Re: •••mink fleshing beam•••? [Re: The Beav] #7224656
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Originally Posted by The Beav
Are you removing the saddle? I've been told you don't need to do that.


Depends how fat they are. We have had this discussion before.


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Re: •••mink fleshing beam•••? [Re: the Blak Spot] #7224697
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In the photo it appears to me he is removing the armpit area meat and fat, not the saddle.

Last edited by bctomcat; 03/23/21 06:46 PM.

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Re: •••mink fleshing beam•••? [Re: bctomcat] #7225899
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Originally Posted by bctomcat
In the photo it appears to me he is removing the armpit area meat and fat, not the saddle.

Yep hide is on sideways.
I ended up making a beam from using mink board as a pattern.



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Re: •••mink fleshing beam•••? [Re: the Blak Spot] #7230110
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I like that Mink bat idea

Re: •••mink fleshing beam•••? [Re: the Blak Spot] #7230762
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As long as you have a wood mink forming board I see absolutely no need for a seperate fleshing board or mink bat.


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