Anyone put up Beaver with no leg holes? Why? Why not?
Watch below-

I may try this. I'm gonna case skin one, so it might be easier for ME to flesh. My leg holes are extremely ugly, have been wanting a cleaner way to do it...I'll try just about anything at least once! Thanks for sharing!

Shouldn't of watched this. My tanning/taxi bill is already looking expensive this year

I'll be darned. Just when I thought I knew it all about beaver skinning. LOL

Johnny Thorpe told me about that many years ago

Would this skinning procedure be used for the tourist trade? (Hooped beaver) Would a pelt be downgraded at the auction house if pelted this way? If it was wanted to be done this way, wouldn't FHA put it in their pelt handling book, as a proper procedure?

I may be wrong, but didn't Johnny Thrope have a direct link to the furriers, by passing the auction houses. It seems like I had read that in a trapper magazine years ago.

I sent an e-mail to FHA asking about it, but no response yet.

You will lose money on the size.

It might make sense as a curio for the craft trade, particularly on the small sizes.

Every time Johnny says trust me on this I think to myself should I really trust him on this,lol

I tried It a few times and It takes me more time to skin It that way then It does the traditional way. And you still have the front leg holes just like when skinning a coon. And for me it's harder to flesh a beaver when It's case skinned.
But give It a try it might work for you.

As I understand it, Beaver pelts are graded/sized by a rectangle formed by the leg holes. So how does that work out on a round plew without the holes?

Beaver sized by length and width or the hides or scanned on a light box abd the computer calculates the square inches of the entire pelt

Ok, I did it! 1st pic is before I trimmed the excess. 2nd pic is finish boarded.
Pros: much easier for me to flesh, no leg holes.
Cons: major pain to skin, difficult to board.
I'll update when it's dry.

I like the leg holes when I am fleshing. I put the point of the board in them. Do you think you gained or lost a size?

Fur buyer I talked to said you lose a size buy skinning this way. I too like to put the point of my beam into the leg hole when fleshing.

Yeah, I'd say I lost a size. I just wanted to try it.

I tried it on a couple small pelts. Im not a fan, maybe my cuts were off but boarding was a nightmare for me lol. Ill stick with legholes!