Primitive Archer

Very nice. I have always liked your work. Glad to see you catching up.

Another nice looking bow. Way too heavy for me though.

Here is a few pictures of some of mine. Some without final smoke because i wanted the white color, some with smoke, I smoke most because I plane on clothing and such and will be used outside. The smoke makes them easy to soften if they do get wet. Some scrolls of rawhide ready to tan when I get around to it, usually do 12 or 15 a year  to use for tanning/other projects and trade or give away. First one in the rack for this year, got one more I will probably rack up this weekend, I dry scrape all mine. You are right about waste, I can get all I want most years but limit it to ones I can skin myself, most people make a mess out of skinning so rather do it for them if I am to get the hide.
 Pappy

Hey man.  Gahd dayum, your buckskin is damn soft, can tell just by looking at it aye.  That's awesome stuff man, made any clothing out of the buckskin?  I'm looking to make myself a shirt, pants & jacket over the next 6 months hopefully.  I want to make a dress & vest for my partner, but also just make lots to sell to a fellow over in Australia.  He's keen to make old school tunics aye, gonna be damn interesting.

I've been finding that I need to soak my hides in a diluted vinegar solution to lower their pH.  Red deer & Fallow seem to be damn dense compared to white tail aye.  I think drying hides out into rawhide (Which is what I do all the time) must make them harder to absorb brains right? I hear the curing of rawhide has a bit of resistance to brains & smoke.  Do you struggle with dressing the brains? How many softening sessions do you do? I'm trying to do 1 single softening session now as the fiber structure of reds really likes to pull apart when softened too much aye. 

Jaydon

Ooooh, you done learned me a new word, and I thought I had a good vocabulary 
Nice work
Del

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