Thread: Homemade Leather Preservative / Waterproofing

Originally Posted by Sideshow

On a slightly different note @Puffin do you have the program “Mountain Men” on in NZ?

There’s a trapper on the program that talks about just this and how the cured skins today don’t breath because of all the chemicals in them.
Now he was talking about a big Wapiti skin that he was doing and after fleshing it out and taking all the hair off he called for his wife to bring the “Brains”, (Wife and I are watching this) anyway he then shows us how he slowly brings these elk brains to the boil and makes a thin broth which he then with a big brush paints onto the hide. Explaining that this will cure the hide but also let it breath.
He explains that this is the Indian way of tanning skins. I turn to the Wife and say wonder how long it took them to figure that one out...just as he turns to the camera as says exactly that

Anyway I wonder if that would help with what your trying to do here?
The consistency looks very similar to the second photo from the bottom. Red deer brains would be similar to elk.

This is the guyAttachment 125371 mind you I have a sneaking suspicion it’s really Rushy

thats not ryshu -lookat the jaw.its old winnie peters bruvver from anover muvver and good to see he found a use for a polis brain!