Making Rawhide

Turning a deer hide into usable rawhide

[@MostWantedOHA]

Deer hair is hollow . Deer swim very well because of it too. The hair being hollow really helps them out in fridged temperatures . Real enjoy your work Dan !!!

[@Th3Sabator45]

soaking it in a mix of ash and water works really well, move it around every now and then so you can have max coverage.

[@chadbrooks9763]

Does it have to be running water or could you sink it in a pond or even put it in a big plastic tub with a top for a few weeks?

[@Redboy4]

Appreciated the clip. Your way of making rawhide is about like our Native way, instead of all that chemical and lye stuff, though ashes can come in handy sometimes, still if it can be done without I think it's better.

[@alexisfishinhuntinandfarmi2923]

Redboy4 thats true chemicals are bad and ruin everything. btw i have some osage ancestry.

[@cdnndn4204]

ashes mixed with water is called lye water

[@ragnkja]

If you can find something that's not made of chemicals and that you can hold in your hands, the Royal Society of Chemistry have a £1 000 000 prize waiting for you.

[@loishowarth2898]

Nillie obviously everything is made of a chemical compound in some way. They commenter clearly meant chemicals as in unnatural synthetics which are added to the process rather than natural local things anyone can access such as our ancestors

[@celtgunn9775]

@@cdnndn4204 yup, you can take a handful of grass/deer hair/whatever would make a good sieve. And run the water through the ashes piled in there.

[@typeohero3519]

Nice video. You ever smoke the hides to waterproof them? Seems like it would be worth the extra step especially for clothing or anything made out of hide that is exposed to rain.

[@coffeehugger]

Smoking helps a lot.

[@davidleasure9138]

First time I ever saw this. quite educational. thanks for sharing

[@mshockley17]

Nice work, man. Thanks for the tips!

[@coalcracker]

There are a bunch more in the works so keep an eye out for them

[@cliff9057]

Thanks for the video. Very informative. I’ve never did one so this will help me.

[@Jacksongirard]

Super interesting, thanks for the great video!

[@axerxes3981]

Dan.... terrific video. I love this stuff!! Is the raw hide tuff enough to use as a ground cloth that would protect a blow up sleeping pad from punctures?? I've tried canvas, but it's not thick or tuff enough. Thanks for sharing..... Ax

[@m.samuel6129]

Hey Brother. Thanks for a great video, i cleaned my hide in water with ash, but i smells pritty bad, even though i've rinsed it got any tips or does the smell go away as it dries outside? Thanks

[@RobMonty248]

Doing my first one, are we not supposed to use salt on it when drying? Or Borax? Or? About to de-hair mine, scrapping done... Please advise yet i need to know soon so i will be looking more, hehe

[@fahadsharifi7055]

as I live in a hot country, we use a different process method for convert skin to leather.... instead of going with ash, egg, or brain process .. we go with salt and sun drying for weeks then next sanding both sides the last step of the process, for tanning we use special red rocks, bring from mountains smash to powder mix with water, soaking the leather in for weeks.

[@keithrayeski3147]

advice on the best way to close up the holes?

[@spaaggetii]

So just wondering, do you need the water to be very cold? I can see snow on the banks. How would you go in a higher heat climate like me in Australia. We don't get snow unless we travel to the mountains etc.

[@timothyrothrock4173]

Ok brother can't wait to see you working on projects with that

[@dylandewalt7727]

Did you use ash or chemical to remove hair

[@coalcracker]

Once you de hair the hide let it go no need to salt

[@stevendennis4365]

Do you use it to back bows?

[@carolinaprepper540]

Great video !!!! I want to see more like this.

[@johnmurray517]

Nice job. For my hide after removing meat and fat i used a scraper to remove the membrane on the flesh side. Did you remove this membrane too? Is it necessary when making raw hide?

[@JohnSmith-il4wi]

You can boil pieces of this to make hide glue right? Or is there another step

[@petemcpherson2259]

As you use the rawhide for different things is it ok to put saddle soap on it to soften the piece your working with?

[@codyellenson3626]

Mix saddle soap and water to make a paste, you don't want your rawhide to dry when working with it.

[@linklesstennessee2078]

good video will be watching for more

[@bengran4289]

Is this something can can dry out and roll up for dog treats?

[@Mr123bears]

Awesome man!

[@mustafasaid5857]

Good chanel

[@turalbagmanov6567]

Beautiful 👏🏻👏🏻

[@beggsnachin]

I had two hides from my steers I had butchered. Things were busy then, so I just laid them flat and salted them to keep them until I can do something with them. Can I still use this process?

[@ScooterLee-ei1ep]

Yes just rehydrate and clean all the soap off. We do it every year. With our hides.

[@Jh5kRadio]

Any videos on if you want to keep the hairs? What if i wanted to make a nice fur hat?

[@celtgunn9775]

My thoughts exactly! I'd love to tan my own cattle hide the next time we have an incident here on the ranch and a cow has to be put down. We had a heifer break her back. It was miserable. She wasn't quite a year. 😔 Ah well, Nature is fickle. But she sure was tender and tasty. We grass feed & hay feed over winter time. 😊

[@bnalive5077]

Brain tan it with the hair on

[@catmandont100]

I realize this is an older video BUT...……….Last month, I received a bulk shipment of "piercing Hemostats"...……...70 of them & paracord was used to stretch a pig skin. No holes....perfectly flat.

[@chrislnflorida5192]

😄😄😄😄 great video 👍👍. In my day I have actually tanned some hide, never seen or heard about this way. What I'm chuckling about, I just watched your video about drinking water 😳. Unlucky survivalist down stream 😳👍✌ So u don't treat the hide with anything, salt, charcoal, any oils? I've been doing it wrong!

[@southmountaincustoms5306]

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[@coalcracker]

Ok cool I’ll have to make a road trip

[@les8947]

you live in a beautiful place! are you even in the us and if so, which state?

[@coalcracker]

Pennsylvania

[@les8947]

Coalcracker Bushcraft wow! never realized how beautiful pennsylvania is!

[@PotatoesAssistant]

Undone By The MeMe I live there too it’s beautiful

[@wizlawz]

i might save the hair for insulation (?)

[@gigiayala13]

This man is playing Minecraft in real life

[@rickydona919]

9:41 that looks just like Cassandra from Dr. Who lol

[@michaelduncan4310]

Taut....!!!

[@michaelduncan4310]

Cause Deer, Elk, Moose, Bou, Antelope, Polar Bear hair is hollow.....

[@blubberboy1897]

Lol we are the same height

[@jonpatterson5668]

My wife always leaves a little hair around the edges (Sorry)

[@johngalt969]

Why would anyone turn deer into rawhide? What a waste!

[@anonymous-zn5em]

Nice. At least you're actually working a real deer hide. If you're in the mood for a laugh check out this poser"s rawhide making video. Snowalker13. He is using a dog hide (German Shepherd) and trying to pass it off as a deer. There are even dogs barking in the background and traffic whizzing by. Sounds like hes out behind the local animal control facility. Pathetic

[@alexisfishinhuntinandfarmi2923]

anon ymous please link the video

[@davidleasure9138]

anon ymous that is not respecting the dog. Worse than pathetic

[@kimcurtis9366]

Dan, as an English minor, in College, it just makes me nuts when someone mispronounces an easy word! There is no N in the word TAUT! Please say it correctly! I KNOW I'm a nut but, I can't concentrate on the content of your videos when you say, TAUNT! It is a problem I have had for years and I apologize for putting it onto you! However, it is incorrect to say, TauNt, when you actually mean "taut!" TAUT means, tight! It makes you sound like you don't know correct English and I know that you are JUST mispronouncing the word and the CONTENT of your videos is not only correct and needed for the bushcrafter group but, it is just plain incorrect to say, TAUNT. I mean no disrespect but, it does make you sound ignorant of the correct word! Please, take no disrespect from my message, I'm just trying, in the only way I know how, to make you more believable and more correct! Great videos! I've been doing these kinds of things for about 55 years and find a few things I didn't know! One thing I would like to point out is that if you want to have thicker rawhide for a particular project, like a knife sheath, for instance, one might want to leave the lashings a bit looser than TIGHT! If you WANT really thin rawhide, stretch it tighter than for the thicker rawhide for other projects! THIS, MIGHT require some thought and practice because it is not as intuitive as it might seem, in some ways! Also, if you are a Native American reenactor and want to make a shield of the correct size, you might try using gently rounded and mounded sand and layng your limp rawhide, that has been cut into a circle that is two or so inches larger than the shield size you want, out over the mound and letting it lie there, covered with more sand, (two inches or so) in hot weather and let the rawhide shrink down a bit after dampening it each day, for a week or so, checking it every day for thickness! This works best for thicker hides like Cow or Buffalo but will also work for Elk hides! This will give one a very thick shield that is very hard, just as those th Native Peoples of the Plains did in making their shields! I have seen shields, made with this technique that were over a half inch thick and would turn or stop the balls from a muzzle loading rifle of the 1800s!! Some museum pieces I have seen actually have the imprint of the lead balls they STOPPED! After the hide is bone dry, it can be sanded to the exact shape wanted and then threaded with rawhide handholds through drilled or punched holes in the shield! OR, it is also possible to thread the THIN rawhide cordage through only half the thickness of the shield and bring it back out without having gone clear through the shield's outside, leaving a completely smooth outside surface! This uses the usually thinner rawhide cordage made from thinner rawhide that has been twisted into the types of cordage you show how to do in another of your excellent videos! These excellent shield can be painted with earth or tempera paints that will adhere quite well and can even be covered, after painting with a buckskin shield cover painted or beaded on the design of your choice! If you or any of your visitors/subscribers want to visit this subject in a more in-depth manner, check out the excellent but basic books by W. Ben Hunt! Before his death, he illustrated and wrote about his experiences with the Sioux and his various builds of their implements! I hope this is of some use to you and those who view your channels! Best wishes!

[@codyellenson3626]

I believe what you meant to say was it makes you sound like you don't know "proper" English. When you say correct English it makes you sound ignorant.

[@buddyhutchins3782]

Don't never come down here to Texas Kim, we talk real good, 'tween us anyway.

[@dogge929]

You know there are a lot more dialects of English than what oxford teaches us, right? You should take a gander at a little language called Pidgin English... Or what about Chinese English dialect? Oooh scary!

[@williamunderhill427]

Gonna unsub if I hear you mispronounce "taut" one more time

[@mshockley17]

Nice work, man. Thanks for the tips!