Customer Reviews

Tan Your Hide!: Home Tanning Leathers & Furs

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No offense to the author, but this book just doesn't have enough detail to successfully teach you to tan a hide. I tan and teach home tanning for a living, and I regularly meet folks who have used this book as their reference and failed to produce anything remotely like leather. There is nothing inaccurate about the information but their just isn't enough detail. Tanning is a fairly simple craft, but it is very tactile and precise. You need to know the details, the ins and outs. Amazon.com sells two books that I highly recommend if you wish to learn home-tanning: DEERSKINS INTO BUCKSKINS: How to Tan With Natural Materials, and Wetscrape Braintan Buckskin. Get one or both and you'll get the results you're looking for.

Besides being light on details, the copy I got had several key pages missing - there but just blank. Shows a lack of attention to detail. If you are just getting started in the tanning/leather/rawhide business it is an OK read about history and techniques but there are better books on the market. Get this one from the library.

This book will walk you through the basic process of tanning a hide or pelt.

The basics are well-covered and this book provides all the resources you would need.

It did leave me wondering a little about alternative (natural) processes for tanning a skin or hide without using materials that were extremely dangerous, or would "dye" a pelt when coloring was not desired.

This shouldn't be the ONLY book on the topic on your bookshelf - but it should be one of them.

My 13 year old and I got this book so he could start tanning rabbits and other animals. The book was easy to follow and made sense to this mom and son team. Our first hide was an antelope hide that a friend got this year and it turned out well. He has also tanned an elk hide and just finished a couple rabbit hides. With each one he has done he h.as learned more and it becomes easier. We had a couple other books before this one and they seemed to make things more complicated than this book did and we liked that the process was relatively safe.

I purchased this book for my husband who is just starting to deal with rabbits. He loved it and we received it very timely and in great condition. Thank you for your excellent service.

ever wanted to know how to make hides? this book will walk you thru it