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Testing a Bunch of Natural Leather Tanning Materials- leaves, barks, roots, acorn caps, etc.
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Testing a Bunch of Natural Leather Tanning Materials- leaves, barks, roots, acorn caps, etc.
Natural Leather Tanning: Collecting Tan Oak Bark for Vegetable Tanning Skins, bark tan
How to Skin Deer and Goats by Fisting for Perfect Skins and Carcasses: Warning Graphic!
Hide Glue Start to Finish: Introduction, overview, materials etc...
Hide Glue Start to Finish #1: Fleshing
Hide Glue Start to Finish #2: Liming the Hide
Hide Glue, Start to Finish #3 De-hairing and De-liming
Making Hide Glue from Start to Finish #4: Cutting and Drying
Ridiculous Cut Marks on a Deer Hide, Is it art? Leather Tanning
Collecting Acorns for Tanning Leather (Bark tanning, natural, vegetable tan)
Home Tanning Skills: Slipping Hair from Skins
Making a Black Jack, Traditional English Leather Beer Mug, From the Ground Up
Natural Leather Tanning, Chopping Bark
Natural Leather Tanning: Common Mistake #1 Uneven Access to Liquors
Oak Gall Tanning Experiment and CASE HARDENING PANIC! AHHHH!!!!
What Type of Lime to Use for Tanning and Rawhide and Where to Get It (lime cycle)
Quality Hide Glue From Scratch #6 part one, Cooking the Glue
Quality Hide Glue From Scratch #6, part 2, Cutting and Drying
Preserving Hides for Tanning, Salt, Dry or Freeze? How To
Axe Strops From Scratch #1, Intro, liming, (Tanning, Glue, Green Woodworking)
Axe Strops From Scratch #2, Fleshing the Hides, Cordwood Challenge
Tanning Skills, Rendering Fats for Leather Dressing, Finishing and Maintenance
Axe Strops From Scratch #4, Unhairing the Deer Hide for Tanning
Axe Strops #5, Rinsing, Scudding, Drenching and Bark Preparation, Cordwood Challenge
Axe Strops #6 Tanning the Deer Skin in Oak Bark, Solution, Layering
Original Illustrations from My Book, Buckskin, The Ancient Art of Braintanning
Rawhide Axe Handle Brace Part 1, Why it's Excellent, Materials & Pros/Cons of Wraps and Collars
Rawhide Axe Handle Brace #2, Preparation and Sewing w/ Sinew Thread
Rawhide Axe Handle Brace #3, Dried, Finished, and Used
STROPS FROM SCRATCH #7: Finishing the Tanned Deer Leather, Oak Bark Tanning
Minimalist Woodworking Strop PART II, Re-glueing With New Leather, Hide Glue

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It is unlikely that you will find this information spelled out anywhere else, yet it is critical to avoid drastic versions of these mistakes when making axe handles. Much more could be said and there’s a lot more to explore, but this is a start and understanding some very common breakages.
Moon
Moon
Moonlit narcissus.
Moonlit narcissus.
From surveying available videos on the subject, I think I would consider the great majority of axe handle protectors unsuitable by my criteria. Protecting the handle it’s not that hard, but the solution should not create new problems, which is often the case.
Late to the party, from my artichoke bitters video. Orange artichoke honey and some other stuff. Keeps bile moving, and surprisingly tasty.
Late to the party, from my artichoke bitters video. Orange artichoke honey and some other stuff. Keeps bile moving, and surprisingly tasty.
New page on Skillcult.com/free stuff for free downloads of all the books articles and such. This is probably the largest collection of such tanning books in one place that you can download. There are some real gems in here, all the books from early last century and back, mostly the late 1800s. Also some free chapters from my buckskin book, buckskin the ancient art of braintanning.Hope to add more categories and books in the future.
Tanning, leather craft, and skin related books. Over the years Tamara Wilder and I collected a lot of books related to tanning leather and skin working in general. Also a lot of research material on traditional tanning from around the world and some stuff on leather chemistry at Cetera.
Straight out of camera.
Straight out of camera.
From the archives. Native wild Iris fiber with Tamara Wilder. This photograph is headed for a museum display in San Francisco.
From the archives. Native wild Iris fiber with Tamara Wilder. This photograph is headed for a museum display in San Francisco.

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