In-depth Tanning A Beaver With The Orange Bottle | WILD MAINE 

I think I may have watched every tanning video on RU-vid now. This is one of the easiest and best ones to follow for sure. Thanks for posting.

Started tanning hides using an already old library book, lots of guess work, a few successes. I used a smooth cypress knee to work while drying. That was long before the internet. I was recently given a frozen beaver tail and find my interest in tanning reignited. Thanks for putting so much time and effort into this video. You're very succinct without being short on information. If you ever get to texas look me up, meanwhile I'll be enjoying your channel.

I’ve had very good results using small nails to hold skin to a piece of plywood propped up at a bit of an angle to allow moisture to run off. It stays nice and flat.

This appears to have been done in a domestic kitcnen and on the dining table. God bless your mother or wife ! Else you are a bachelor …

When you defrost do you defrost in the fridge or in room temp? I have a green beaver in the freezer I need to flesh and salt and tan

So glad to have found this video!

According to top, professional Brazilian waxers, it's important to have a tan beaver.

Thorough and informative! Thanks

If you took a 2x4 and cut it so it looks like the letter A along the 3.5 inch side and made it four feet long. Next bury about a foot or two into the ground with the pointy side up you could work the hide over it while it is drying and it will come out soft and pliable.

Ive preserved alot of pelts. I do several things different but it looks like it worked ok.

You’re a brave man doing all this in your kitchen! I am relegated to the garage and shed when dealing with pelts! Great video

That is NOT a pickle. It’s just salt. You need to add acid to make a pickle solution.

I just did a video of me using this stuff for 3 black bears. Only stuff I've used.

At what point do you wash the fur with dish soap?

If you make a cut , the middle is still green and you can do nothing with without redo processes

How long did the process take after the tanning solution was put on until the hide was finished?

A lot of work for 25 bucks

Great job my friend. You show great respect for this animal's life.

Wow doing it in your kitchen!

i use a belt sander to thin the pelt, it makes the pelt very soft.

This is the best tutorial on tanning a hide I have ever seem!

Your wife must very understanding to let you do it in the kitchen. Mine not so understanding lol

I have never done this many steps to tan a deer hide and mine are 20 plus yeats old

Maine is known for wild lobsters 🦞 buddy . 😮

Have you ever had the pickle cause the hair to slip? My brother had this happen with his deer pelt.

Thank you for the detailed video hard to find

Great video man

Do you want them fleshed so there is no white fat left on tail?

Hey bud, do you sell your hides? If so, is there a way I can contact you one on one?

Excellent video 👍🏻

that was a good video thanks

very good job takes a lopng time but that is the way ...Could you have use a rebar or a rope or board to strecth

What about ocean water instead of pickling salt water