i am wanting to get into the tanning business for a hobby but i need some training on how to tan hides. are there any websites or online classes that teach hide tanning? i want to know from start to finish on how to tan a hide. are there any good tanning kits or online stores?
Looking for instructional online classes for hide tanning %26amp; high quality tanning kits?
Check out
http://www.primitiveways.com/
http://www.nativetech.org/
http://www.braintan.com/
www.jumaka.com/tanning/tanning1.html
www.tanning-web.com
www.the-leather-site.com
www.essortment.com/leathertanning_rdcu...
The first three sites deal specifically with brain tanning, where the animal's brain is used as the tanning agent (interesting note: Each animal is said to have enough brain to provide the required amount of tanning agent for it's own hide). The advantages to brain tanning is that you will not need to find a way to store noxious/dangerous chemicals, you don't need special equipment such as ventilation hoods, the hide doesn't get as stiff as when chemicals are used (brain tanned buckskin is supposed to be the softest available) and you can tan a hide nearly anywhere (even in the dining room, if the wife will let you). The biggest drawback to brain tanning is the smell and the mess...but then, the vapors from some of the chemicals used for commercial tanning can kill you, and they'll ruin the dining room table. (I would rather put up with the smell and mess of brain tanning, than possibly die from breathing poisonous vapors.)
There are a lot more sites on tanning leather, some even dealing with vegetable tanning, but I only had time for a two-minute search.
Reply:check out fur-fish and games web site. i think they used to have some links on there site.
http://www.furfishgame.com/
Reply:try googling it.
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