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Thanks Rob Is one year a long time? If I coat the lacing with a varnish will that mask the odor? It might not matter as the snowshoes are worn outside but while they aren't being used I hang them in the garage. I am in the process of making KAW's splitter and hopfully that will get rid of what ever is causing the problem.

Hi I am another newbie here looking for answers. I am looking to repair some snowshoes and needed some rawhide lacing. Finding it expensive and hard to come by thought I would make my own. Long story short the fellow that was going to help me spoiled my hide but gave me some lacing that had been cut off the hide initially but nothing else ever done anything with it. This was all last year but now when I am going to use the lacing and trim it down it has a strong odor to it and as one of the other posters said it is not real white but discolored. My question is can you remove the odor now or is that supposed to happen in a previous step.