Ultimate Guide to Skinning and Tanning
A Complete Guide To Working With Pelts, Fur, And Leather
Published on 1. May 2023
256 pages
978-1-4930-7867-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"This volume belongs on your "Most Wanted" list!" * Whitetails Unlimited * There are good instructions for making rawhide, latigo, and sole leather as well as instructions for tanning bird and reptile hides. A diamondback rattlesnake hide is always sure to impress. Finally there is a list of supply sources. Skinning and tanning is one of man's oldest and most basic skills that has proved quite necessary for his survival throughout history. This is the best book on the subject that I have seen * thegunmag.com *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Globe Pequot Press
File size
52,64 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4930-7867-7 (9781493078677)
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Monte Burch
Ultimate Guide to Skinning and Tanning
A Complete Guide To Working With Pelts, Fur, And Leather
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01/2003
The Lyons Press
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Person
Monte Burch has been trapping and tanning since the 1950s, and writing about the outdoors for four decades. He has written thousands of magazine articles and more than fifty books-including Field Dressing and Butchering Upland Birds, Waterfowl, and Wild Turkeys; Field Dressing and Butchering Deer; and Field Dressing and Butchering Rabbits, Squirrels, and Other Small Game. He lives on a farm in the Missouri Ozarks, where trapping and tanning are a way of life.
Content
- THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SKINNING AND TANNING
- 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
- Index
