Author Topic: Beef hide and quivers/and other items made from it (Read 16331 times)

BowEd · « **on:** December 16, 2015, 08:15:01 am »

Around here people will still do their own butchering,but they don't care to tan....Guess you can't eat the hide they figure so I get some freebees once in a while.Frame is made of 2" by 6" with inside dimensions 6.5 by 5.5 feet.For thicker hides such as beef hides it's wise to use 2" by 6".2" by 4" will get bowed while drying fairly bad.Suppose it's around 30 square feet.Basically the green hide is laced into a frame/fleshed or fleshed on a beam then laced into a frame/left to dry and then dry scraped dehaired.You can flesh then dehair it with lye & rinse too then lace it into a frame to dry for a final nice flat piece of rawhide to do with what you want.I've made 3 rawhide side or cat quivers out of his beef so far.Here's a couple.FG shooters at 3D shoots ask me to make them for them.The same preperation process is done for deer rawhide too and 2" by 4" can be used for those thinner skinned animals.

chamookman · « **Reply #1 on:** December 17, 2015, 04:07:37 am »

Cool ! Bob

mullet · « **Reply #2 on:** December 17, 2015, 06:38:51 am »

I like that.

BowEd · « **Reply #3 on:** December 17, 2015, 05:56:59 pm »

Thanks fellas.I think once someone uses rawhide a few times they usually like it.This stuff from beef is too thick for backing bows.Excellent for handle wraps,quivers,etc.I'm sure there's other things too.
The quivers I heat soaked parrafin in to saturation.It'll hold up to pesky little showers and early morning fogs and stuff.If it rains hard enough it fills up with water for a tastey slucky of water to drink.
Many other things cam be made.Some back pocket and belt quivers too.'

Rawhide boxes.

Parafleches from buffalo rawhide.Their like rawhide suit cases or large rawhide envelopes.Usually always made in pairs.

When making holes through rawhide this thick an awl is the tool to use opposed to using a leather punch.I used to use an ice pick for years but finally made myself one out of antler and a hard nail.Beadwork on sheath is the in line wrap method of ponytrader blues/brick white hearts/greasy yellows.Some crow beads and tin cones.

Danzn Bar · « **Reply #4 on:** December 17, 2015, 07:38:06 pm »

Wow very nice......
DBar

Aaron H · « **Reply #5 on:** December 18, 2015, 08:42:15 am »

You do great work ed

BowEd · « **Reply #6 on:** December 18, 2015, 08:49:33 am »

Thanks but well from the beautiful bows I've seen given away on this site it's just something else anyway.

Zuma · « **Reply #7 on:** December 18, 2015, 10:15:28 am »

I like cow hide.

Have you had the opportunity
to work/use buffalo?

Thanks,Zuma

BowEd · « **Reply #8 on:** December 18, 2015, 11:02:49 am »

Yes I have.Brain tanned a couple too and made rawhide out of one other.Parafleches etc.The rawhide of a buffalo is a little different than a beef.Coarser.The smaller you go with ungulates the finer and tighter the fibers of the rawhide are.Moose...Buffalo...elk....deer etc.

BowEd · « **Reply #9 on:** December 18, 2015, 11:07:51 am »

Now horse is nice too.Not quite as thick as beef,about like elk but not as coarse.

BowEd · « **Reply #10 on:** December 18, 2015, 11:20:05 am »

No matter what kind.All the different types of rawhide are very useful in projects.For knife sheaths though it needs to be mink oiled inside for steel unless you use a flint knife.

Zuma · « **Reply #11 on:** December 18, 2015, 01:33:16 pm »

That's good info.
Thanks Beadman for taking the time.

I just gave a bear hide to a friend of mine.
He wants to make shoes. I know the bear
is not a bovine but it has a hide.

Zuma

BowEd · « **Reply #12 on:** December 18, 2015, 05:49:31 pm »

Yep.Depends how big the bear was.I'd make knee high hair on winter mocs out of it myself or a least gaiters.Line it with a wool blanket.They say a woodchuck has the best rawhide for strings.Something about rodents.

BowEd · « **Reply #13 on:** December 18, 2015, 06:55:01 pm »

The little characteristics of rawhide you find out from brain tanning them.Their all suited for paticular uses.I lived 45 years of my life right in the corner where the borders of Iowa,Minnesota,and South Dakota meet so I'm influenced a great deal by the plains Indian culture.It's all good.Last and only time I was at the Tennesee Classic I got a kick out of Pappy and another fella wearing their skin shirts to saturday night feed.Pretty cool.

Zuma · « **Reply #14 on:** December 18, 2015, 09:19:52 pm »

I swear I have had more opportunity to
prepare myself or send hides out to be tanned.
We used to give all our groundhog/woodchuck
hides to the local fur buyer. He would have vest made
that looked just like gray fox. My daughter always
wanted to know the organs in the carcases I was
skinning. I do hope Matt leaves the bear hair on.
It is/was luxuriously appealing.
I think it's to late for me to turn an animal skin into a
utilitarian work of art. Sorry I missed that boat.
Perhaps in my next life.
Zuma

Primitive Archer