How much should I charge for a hooped beaver for wallhanger?

Figure out your time and materials. Tanning, shipping, etc all play a part. And quality of the hide.

Check out Riverine Traders for some top notch work.

$200 minimum

Docyou use thin rawhide cord for hooping?

Sorry, i meant to say "do you"

I charged $100 for this one.

Was that just for the stretched and dried pelt? Or for the tanned and hooped finished piece?

All their items say Sold
I couldn't see a hooked Beaver For sale???

the tanned and hooped finished piece

330, I think they have an Etsy store also.

PM Muskrat here, he's the man behind Riverine Traders.

Yep, here's the Etsy link : Riverine Traders

I catch tons of coons but get only a small sum for a hide. Should i hoop a coon and sell it for a wallhanger?

Hide is worth $20, fleshing + tanning is $80 so you're $100 into it. Sinew (the fake stuff on a roll) + finding and peeling a Willow branch $20.

So figure you're at least $100 into the end product. Ide say $200 is very fair for quality work.

I've never saw Riverine traders site before but hot dang do I love that Wolverine on the willow, beautiful work.

Muskrat (TMan handle) does great work. You should try to see it in person some time.

Like this when I sold it. It was sold at an OTC sale in Klamath Falls. My minimum bid wasn't met and after the sale I sold it to George Kortum for $100....a little less than my minimum. Vine maple hoop and leather cordage.

That turned out nice. $100 was a steal.

I'll have to remind him of that when he's looking at my cats in Prineville!

What is used to poke the holes in the hide to hoop them?Leather punch?

My wife hooped my beaver. She used an awl.

I use a diamond shaped blade in a leather awl. It pierces a nice hole.

Don't use a hole punch.

Muskrat (Riverine Traders) does beautiful work and has been at it for years!!!

Moosetrot