Kentucky Fisherman2
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I've got a yote hide that I fleshed, washed, let drip dry for a while, then started salting. My question is this: This hide is in its third day of heavy salting and it's still quite soft and pliable. It shows no signs of wanting to stiffen or harden as I expected it should.
Do you think I'm doing something wrong, or maybe it's just that the humidity is a little high, so it's just gonna take a while. Do properly salted hides always end up real stiff, or do some of them stay soft, even with the salt?
The hide's case skinned and I've been salting it leather side out. This afternoon I decided to turn it and see if perhaps the fur was damp. The fur was still a little damp and I figured maybe that was keeping the hide from drying, so I took a hair dryer and very slowly dried the fur out some. The underfur is quite dense and wooly, so I figure it was holdling quite a bit of moisture that I had overlooked. guess I should have turned it hair side out and let that dry real good before starting the salting, huh?
So what do you think, guys, will this hide harden up if I keep changing the salt?
Do you think I'm doing something wrong, or maybe it's just that the humidity is a little high, so it's just gonna take a while. Do properly salted hides always end up real stiff, or do some of them stay soft, even with the salt?
The hide's case skinned and I've been salting it leather side out. This afternoon I decided to turn it and see if perhaps the fur was damp. The fur was still a little damp and I figured maybe that was keeping the hide from drying, so I took a hair dryer and very slowly dried the fur out some. The underfur is quite dense and wooly, so I figure it was holdling quite a bit of moisture that I had overlooked. guess I should have turned it hair side out and let that dry real good before starting the salting, huh?
So what do you think, guys, will this hide harden up if I keep changing the salt?