Rehydrated /degreased my large raccoon from this season and he is pickled and now in the alum tan. Be a couple more days for that part. He’s a biggn. Could make a nice mantle.
Will post photos as I move along.
Again I thank everyone who has assisted me with learning to tan!

4/7. Had the day off so I’m trying to be productive! This is after the alum. Thinning the coon a bit on the beam trying to get some extra junk off




4/9 Put back on the stretcher to dry some and take shape. This is before breaking process. Maybe do that tmrw after work. That is the most fun part! Look how weird the skin looks now



4/17
After a few days of breaking and further thinning, I think my raccoon is done! I have a couple stupid holes to stitch up but overall, it’s a nice prime pelt with good fluid movement!
Here is inside

And outside

What did you use for degreasing?

Good Deal- following

Just dawn. A load of it. And used a brush to kinda scrub it. The water was nasty the next morning. Oily and thick.
I have an old book that suggests kerosene but I didn’t wanna mess with that

So when is the sewing machine showing up so you can make your own blankets?

Keep up on this. I’d love to hear the progress and see some pics

Very nice.Bet it comes out great.

Bob at this rate I’m gonna be so broke.

Very cool.... I'll be watching and learning from this

No video or pictures this time?

… hope it turns out nice for you and all that kind of crap

Ain’t much to look at right now! Hopefully will be pretty later on! Once it gets gussied up

… big coon

Biggest I ever took although I know there’s bigger out there. The pelt is LONG.

I used Colman fuel, outside to degrease waterfowl when I was doing taxidermy.

Has anyone tried Presolve it’s an LPS product that’s a citrus degreaser.

https://www.itwprobrands.com/product/presolve

watching

Gonna have to give it a go, thanks Bob.

Still seems kinda greasy.

Squeaky clean eh?!?
Will try !