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Gobi 05-27-2009 12:30 PM

Removing Hair from Cowhide
 
I'm trying to remove the hair from a cowhide. We already know how to flesh it, the only thing we are trying to figure out, is an easier way for us to actually remove the hair.

Any suggestions?

russ 05-27-2009 12:39 PM

yup...

http://www.taxidermy.net/forum

Those guys will have something hiding away in the archives. Good luck, you're in for a ton of work!

Gobi 05-27-2009 12:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by russ (Post 326592)
Good luck, you're in for a ton of work!

Oh bollocks...

Just wondering if anybody else as done this either.

russ 05-27-2009 01:15 PM

Gobi, there's a chemical process for what you're trying to accomplish. It's in the archives at the link I've provided. Just a guess but maybe you should check out their tanning forum.

Gobi 05-27-2009 01:24 PM

I realize that and I am as we speak, but I'm curious as to the people who I've been in contact with for however long I've been on this forum as well... if they've done it. There's nothing wrong with that is there?

winged1 05-27-2009 01:26 PM

Lime.

Thoroughly clean the hide, then soak a few days in a lime solution. Once the hair begins to readily slip, scrap it off, thoroughly rinse the hide, then neutralize the lime with a weak lactic acid solution. Early Americans used hardwood ash instead of the lime.

Gobi 05-27-2009 01:28 PM

Just for future posters reference, I've already found the step by step thread that someone has created over at the posted forum (thanks russ) and I'm just curious who else has done something like this.

TangoKilo 05-27-2009 01:35 PM

Two words... Mach 3!!:lol::lol:

NCC 05-27-2009 02:34 PM

Are you trying to make leather or rawhide?

A concrete mixer can take alot of the grunt work out of the process.

Double Shovel 05-27-2009 04:42 PM

I have done it in the lime process to make rawhide for a braider for leatherworks.About a week to two weeks for the hair to slip,depends on the temp.

TreeGuy 05-27-2009 09:22 PM

Gobi, PM Hoochie Papa. I belive that he uses a chemical/hot wax combination every time he has the 'Brazilian'!:D

Tree


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