Rawhide question/s

[Cumberland Highpower]

What's the thickest/heaviest weight Rawhide out there?  Bovine or something similar.

Been looking for some really heavy sides/double shoulders but can't seem to find anything over 5/6oz....Would like to find something heavier.

 

Any leads/ideas?

[bland]

What project are you working on?  5-6 oz rawhide is pretty heavy.  When it fully soaks up water it can double & sometimes almost triple in thickness depending on how you long you let it go.  

Search this company "TRAHIDE".  I have never dealt with them but they do have an extra heavy hide that is 6-7 oz.  

 

Edited Sunday at 03:06 PM by bland

[Cumberland Highpower]

11 hours ago, bland said:

What project are you working on?  5-6 oz rawhide is pretty heavy.  When it fully soaks up water it can double & sometimes almost triple in thickness depending on how you long you let it go.  

Search this company "TRAHIDE".  I have never dealt with them but they do have an extra heavy hide that is 6-7 oz.  

 

We're making a small run of some antique type tooling.  I find some of the rawhide pieces used are pretty thick.  I may end up doubling up if I end up using 5/6.

I looked over the link.  I was surprised to see horse rawhide as well as goat.   Up to this point I've never used a single piece of rawhide on anything, but have worked a very substantial amount of tanned leathers. So I can say I both "know" and "dont know" what I'm doing with confidence! LOL

[bruce johnson]

The heaviest rawhide comes from slaughter bulls. Percentage-wise, packer bulls are a very small number versus the total number of cattle slaughtered everyday, and not done by a lot of major packing plants. The hides are big and heavy from English breed bulls and especially northern cattle. Commercially, you may run across sourcing those in a smaller plant. Denise and Rod Nikkell used to build saddle trees. They drove to a small processor when they got a call there would be bulls. They picked up the wet hides and fleshed and dehaired themselves. I'm not going to say impossible to find processed bull rawhide but harder than straight run rawhide.