Thread: Simple tanning recipe

Originally Posted by SF90

Another way is brain tan them - I did a few like that years ago and they're still good.

The American indians did it, and if you want them waterproof you smoke them.

I used sheeps brain I got from the butcher and half cooked it, then rubbed it in the skin. A brain is mostly fat and it's said the only animal that doesn't have enough brain to tan its own hide is the American bison - so it's entirely possible to tan a possum skin with its own brain - should you be bothered extracting it.

So no head shooting then.