![]() ![]() (read the tutorial How To Skin for further instructions.Īlso on the flesh side. If you do take it off yourself, use your hands to pull the hide free. If you do not take the skin off yourself, check it very carefully. ![]() Every place a blade touched my skin would later open up under the stresses of tanning. The skin was so thin in fact that fresh off the animal, you could see the sunlight through it at its thickest part Scoresīecause the hide is so very thin, it will not tolerate knife cuts or scores. The neck and shoulders were no thicker than the thinnest flank of a deer skin and when dried in the rack, the goat flanks had the thickness of fax paper. I had heard that goatskins were thin but it was still surprising. With the hide off the carcass, just how thin it was, was very clear. Even when the hide was dried in the frame, it still maintained some of that greasy feel, reminiscent of a raccoon. Greasy & Thin! The fat deposits that lay under the skin were not solid like what is found on a deer rather, they were watery and full of air bubbles. note: use this article as an adjunct to one or more of the recommended books on brain tanning) First Impressions So, for what it is worth, here are a few notes from my solitary goatskin experience. There is sure to be some discussion on tanning elk and buffalo, and maybe even moose, but the common goat is given only a sentence or two. And while these brief mentions confirm the idea, they go into no detail on what differences there might be between goat and deer. In all of the books on tanning, somewhere there is the mention that goat hides can be brain-tanned.
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