Short description
From a master a comprehensive guide to preserving skins and pelts
Long 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, Butch 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. Other topics include: -- Skinning small game -- Stretching and drying pelts -- Tanning small-game pelrs -- Skinning big game -- Tanning big game -- Making buckskin -- Tanning domestic hides -- Skinning and tanning reptiles -- Skinning and tanning birds From the oldest method to the newest twist, Burch's guide will be indispensable to the modern hunter.
Review
This volume belongs on your Most Wanted list! -- Whitetails Unlimited