NICELY DONE!!

Nice tumbler. I like the stickers

Did you make Betsy?

Looks like you did well Congrats o the results and of course the effort it takes to achiever the results

Wonderful fur handling. Sure wish the boys and I could get an apprenticeship.. Great work.

Beautiful !

Dampening the media with mineral spirits cleans the grease out of the fur.
The mineral spirits dissolves/loosend the grease,and the media removes it and polishes the hair.The media,either cob grit or hardwood sawdust needs to be changed occasionlly because it will continue to accumulate the grease and dirt.The frequency will depend on how many pelts you run thru and how dirty the skins are that go in.If the pelts are washed before boarding and drying then the media in the drum should last a long time since it will be mostly just polishing fur.You can re use the old media in the fur shed when scraping fatty pelts.
It is also done with tanned fur to remove tanning oils etc from the fur.
And like pawnee said the water is to nullify static electricity in the drum.

I thought I’d see if anyone picked it out but they didn’t. I wanted to show the difference between a normal boated coyote and one put up on a dolphin nose board. Look at the difference between the second coyote from the left and the others. There is a drastic difference in how the dolphin board makes there neck pop.

Yes. I think there are a few threads in the archives about building them if I remember right. PM me if you need more info

Pelts look good Pawnee

Nice bunch of fur.

Pelts look excellent

that there boys is an artist at work. they look stellar!

That is a compliment from the best cat trapper west of the Mississippi so thank you sir

Very nice work! Thank you for sharing the pics and process.

Grounding strap my man. Tie a wire to a green ground wire from an outlet and run it over to your tumbler and have a couple coat hangers or something dragging on the outside of the thing when its spinning.

Just saw its wood. It needs a layer of chicken wire on the inside and outside (they have to be connected together well in more than one spot ideally) for it to work or something like that probably. Good luck to you my friend.

Betsy does a great job. Finished fur looks great.

I would love to learn how to put fur up like that. Fantastic pelts!