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With a heavy hide, I stretch it over a table and go to work...lighter hide seems better on the beam...

Nice work! The collectors can have the fancy stuff...I like simple tack that works!

Packing plant...or goats I have raised.

There is a trick to that...I am fleshing with a high speed 4" angle grinder with a twisted wire wheel...I have a low speed sander with a six inch fluffy wire wheel that takes those down ok...buffs the hide nicely too.

Liking the wire wheel and grinder....did a hair on goat that went to freezer camp this morning. Good results...fleshed with the grinder on a beam...then got it into the frame and buzzed fuzzies off with it...good stuff.

Yeah...for cowhide..I am probably sticking with the wire wheel...works fine and it is fast... everything smaller..yeah..fleshing beam and knife..

Just fleshed a cowhide with a 4 inch angle grinder...w9rked ok...probably be better if I did that with it drier...but it does not fit my process to do it that way...I am not fram8ng a hide twice...

Tyvek coverall... i am going to flesh a cowhide in a day or two...gonna try this..

Messy...

En boca cerrada...no entran moscas... there is much to be learned from the video itself..

Following the suggested videos after the ones in the cutter demo....go to youtube and search for 'el rincon del soguero' There is a whole channel of cool stuff to watch....I particularly like the tin can lace cutter...

I use a carpenters draw knife over a 4x4 with the edged rounded off...soak the hide a couple days to get it nice amd soggy then flesh away... I also have some rounded cabinet scrapers from some chinese tool store....nice for scraping in a frame...

Never mind. Slit braid...figured it out.

Plait the horsehair in some neat pattern and plait the bracelet around it, but leave windows or somesuch to where the horsehair is visible...much like the western belts you see with plaited horsehair between two layers of leather, and windows to reveal the hair plait...

I do not know what the thing is called, but like the poppers on the end of a horse lead line where you slit a strap and weave it each side through the other....how does one go about laying that out so it comes out even and neat?