Fleshing Deer Hides for Tanning or Drying, Natural Leather Tanning

Showing how to flesh deer hides for drying or tanning while preparing a skin for braintanning. More details below.

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The first step in any tanning process is usually fleshing, where unwanted meat, fat and membrane are removed from the skin. Skins should be fleshed before drying skins in most cases as well.

Deer skins are usually very easy to flesh. The hide should be fleshed while fresh and not allowed to dry out at all. If it becomes dry, resoak before fleshing.

The fleshing knife should usually be a little bit sharper than that used for removing the grain when making buckskin. The tool is sharpened and then dulled back down until it will not shave the thumbnail too easily, and won't grab on the thumbnail if gently tapped. If it is to sharp, you may gouge or tear holes in the skin.

The fleshings can be buried near fruit trees or put into a biochar catch pit.

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