Ultimate Guide to Skinning and Tanning: A Complete Guide To Working With Pelts, Fur, And Leather

by Monte Burch

Overview

Here is the complete guide to a skill that may be mysterious to some, written by Monte Burch, an authority who practices many of the traditions of tanning and hiding. Starting at the beginning, Burch introduces the hunter to the tools of a tanner, and even gives complete plans for making many of these implements. Instructions are given for making fleshing beams, stretchers for pelts, fleshing knives, and many others. He also covers tanning formulas and materials, both traditional and modern. From the oldest method to the newest twist, Burch's guide will be indispensable to the modern hunter.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781585746705
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	11/01/2002
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	700,226
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Monte Burch has been trapping and tanning since the 1950s, and writing about the outdoors for four decades. He has written thousands of magazine articles and more than fifty books-including Field Dressing and Butchering Upland Birds, Waterfowl, and Wild Turkeys; Field Dressing and Butchering Deer; and Field Dressing and Butchering Rabbits, Squirrels, and Other Small Game. He lives on a farm in the Missouri Ozarks, where trapping and tanning are a way of life.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
Chapter 1	Understanding Tanning	1
Chapter 2	Tools and Workplace	17
Chapter 3	Tanning Formulas and Materials	41
Chapter 4	Skinning Small Game, Furbearers and Predators	63
Chapter 5	Skinning Deer, Big Game and Domestic Animals	83
Chapter 6	Preserving and Storing Hides and Pelts	103
Chapter 7	Tanning Small Game and Furbearers	125
Chapter 8	Modern Methods of Tanning Deer and Big Game Hides	149
Chapter 9	Making Buckskin	175
Chapter 10	Tanning Domestic Hides and Skins and Hair-On Robes	193
Chapter 11	Rawhide, Latigo and Sole Leather	207
Chapter 12	Birds	211
Chapter 13	Skinning and Preserving Reptiles	219
	Source List	231
	Index	233

Editorial Reviews

There are good instructions for making rawhide, latigo, and sole leather as well as instructions for tanning bird and reptile hides. A diamondback rattlesnake hide is always sure to impress. Finally there is a list of supply sources. Skinning and tanning is one of man’s oldest and most basic skills that has proved quite necessary for his survival throughout history. This is the best book on the subject that I have seen

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