Using Animal Hide Options

[swizz]

I dying Rabbit hide (sorry Denise!)... one wine and one tan. The hides were white originally.
These will be used for fly tying! I'll get many dozens of flies out of these.

[CP]

Bet the fur blankets are darn toasty but we'll have to see about that project. Might be a possible future one but I agree, the taxidermy part is best left to the pro's. Even though we do probably have enough "on the hoof" like Caveman said. I ain't doing that many from the "hoof or paw", the $3.50 a piece is well worth it. Take a good while to put the thing together and then where would it be stored? Gads! Sure don't want to mess it up after all that work!

We thought of a couple cool "animal hide" uses to toss in the mix here too......lapidary related though.

Here's a pic of some leather we just replaced on our polish pad for the cabbing machine. Cut two for an extra replacement later, these are sheepskin, extremely soft.


Then this pic is of some "leather thimbles" we made from a pair of deerskin gloves. Denise needed some finger protectors to use when polishing out some of her sculpted projects with the dremel and home made brushes. She said that dang thing hurts! Hopefully these will help, and she only needs a few at a time for the left fingers, so there should be enough with 10 to start. Couldn't really think of what to use but then it hit us, she wanted a new pair of leather fingerless gloves anyway and where else would one find a single leather thimble, let alone a full 10 set!