Ultimate Guide to Skinning and Tanning

A Complete Guide To Working With Pelts, Fur, And Leather

Monte Burch

• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN:
  9781493078677
• Edition: 1

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.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1–Understanding Tanning
• Chapter 2–Tools and Workplace
• Chapter 3–Tanning Formulas and Materials
• Chapter 4–Skinning Small Game, Furbearers and Predators
• Chapter 5–Skinning Deer, Big Game and Domestic Animals
• Chapter 6–Preserving and Storing Hides and Pelts
• Chapter 7–Tanning Small Game and Furbearers
• Chapter 8–Modern Methods of Tanning Deer and Big Game Hides
• Chapter 9–Making Buckskin
• Chapter 10–Tanning Domestic Hides and Skins and Hair-On Robes
• Chapter 11–Rawhide, Latigo and Sole Leather
• Chapter 12–Birds
• Chapter 13–Skinning and Preserving Reptiles
• Source List