Field notes
Category: Hide, Horn & Skull
Salting schedules, drying, horn caps, degreasing and what a tannery accepts.
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Field notes
Salting schedules, drying, horn caps, degreasing and what a tannery accepts.

Boiling is the word everyone uses and the thing nobody should do. What you want is a long simmer, or a beetle colony, followed…

Both methods work. They fail differently, and they fail for different people. Salt fails when somebody is rushed or has nowhere to drain. Freezing…

Salt does one job. It pulls water out of the hide faster than bacteria at the hair root can loosen it. Everything that goes…