- Get deer hide from dad out of the trashcan and put it in a black plastic trash bag.
- Convince the wife to let me take it home in the car.
- Buy salt.
- Take it home and lay it out on a piece of plywood.
- Cut the head off (yes, its just as gross as it sounds). This took a little work. The neon green carpenter's knife I had wasn't doing much until i flipped the blade to a fresh edge. Then I cut right thru the rest of the hide. I considered grabbing the hack saw to take the skull cap off and save the brains for tanning, but decided some things were just a no-no and put the head back in the bag, into the trash can. The garbage men won't even know.
- Salt the hide.
- Leave it out to cure.
- Chase the bees off and salt some more.
- Roll it up and stick it in the shed during the cold of winter.
And that's as far as I've gotten. Its starting to warm up, so I have to decide soon what I'm doing with it. It is not going to be thick enough for armor, but it would make for nice trimming around the edges. I still have some scraping to do, and decide if i want to de-hair it, but that would spoil the trimming part. Soon...
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