Good Source Of Cheap Rawhide In Uk

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Considering the fact that I gave up making my own rawhide years ago, and since a well known maker here in scotland passed away, I had to find another source who after recieving a hide from, I think I have.

Below are pictures of what these people (http://www.barrheadleather.co.uk/raw-hide-c46.html.) call a second i.e it has warbles holes within it making it unusable for drums etc, but given that it only cost £10.00 or roughly 15.00 dollars I thought I'd try it.

In my experiance, warble holes can be upto 4mm wide, these are almost closed/healed and is still usefull as either bow backing or to make laces for fid work where the lace is not pulled as much as in knots where the lace is cut from outside in. I cannot gurentee that all these hides are like this one, but around the neck it is 2mm, every where else from .7 to 1mm. It feels like thick stiff paper and I imagine could be cut and beveled dry, as I normally do, coating the lace in aussie condioner before braiding starts. As you can see they have some rough bits but these can be lightly sanded off but it has a lovely deep tan colour as expected when tanned properly. Overall, for only £10.00 this hide is great as it would cost me more then that to make it myself now and you can pay with paypal which makes it more secure.