cutting fire wood for hide tanning shack, -30 morning weather #hidetanning #moosehide #winterwork

testing hide glue , update 2024 sept12 #hidetanning #hideglue #moosehide

pine bark tanning , making tea tannins prt2

pine bark tanning , making tea tannins

my recovery journey, 3yrs alcohol free , hide tanning has helped my recovery

update on my work April 26 fri 2024

having fun with the chickens, raising laying hens #chickenninjawarrior #chickens #layinghens

salting beaver pelts part 1 , soaking pelts #pelts #beaver #beaverhoop #saltingpelts

mounting deer antlers , shaping the back piece part 1

laying hens, raising chickens #chickens #layinghens #eggtanning #hidetanning #furs

2024 update on hide tanning and chickens January , 2 , 2024

egg laying hens, 6 weeks old ,

moose hide tanning, taking off the meat

moose hide tanning, setting up for fleshing the hide

moose hide tanning, getting the frame ready

moose hide tanning, setting up for fleshing the hide,

elk hide tanning, putting in the rope getting ready to stretch

elk hide tanning, making holes getting ready to stretch

Bark tanning, moose & elk, 1st time trying , skudding , draining the old solution out

moose hide tanning, softening stage, #hidetanning#scraping#indigenous #soakinghides #softeninghides

moose hide tanning, fleshing #hidetanning #native #scraping #fleshinghides #moosehidetanning

native hand drum, mini hand drums #hidetanning #handdrum #bending #native #rawhide #indigenous

moose hide tanning, freeze scraping, #hidetanning #native #moosehidetanning #scraping #fleshinghides

moose hide tanning, April, 19,2023 update on the new set up for hide tanning,

tanning with "orange bottle" tanning solution #hidetanning #harvest #otterpelt #scraping #native

tanning with "orange bottle" tanning solution, otter pelt #hidetanning #orangebottle #otterpelt

tanning with "orange bottle" tanning solution, finishing up this beaver pelt,

native drum frames, part 1#hidetanning #rawhide #scraping #drums #native #handdrum

harvesting feathers, chicken #harvest #feathers

moose hide tanning, smoking hides, #hidetanning #smokinghides #beaverpelt#braintanning

moose hide tanning, rehydrating a stored moose hide#rawhide #hidetanning #moosehide#scraping

hide tanning, teaching youth #hidetanning #rawhide #scraping #braintanning #smokinghides

hide tanning, final scraping #hidetanning #rawhide #moosehidetanning #elkhide #soakinghides

hide tanning, stretching out this elk hide #rawhide #hidetanning ##scraping #stretchinghides

hide tanning, restoring this hand drum #rawhide #hidetanning #scraping #stretchinghides

hide tanning, #hidetanning #rawhide #scraping #braintanning #smokinghides #elkhide #moosehide

cutting out string, circle, for the hand drum, elk hide.

15'elk hand drum, start to finish

moose hide tanning, smoking hides during winter

1yr sobriety, Nov, 11,2021 alcohol was taking over and ruining my life, I decided to quit alcohol.

sun rising through the clouds

my addiction with alcohol

elk hide tanning, fleshing

elk hide tanning, fleshing

elk hide tanning, stringing up the hide

elk hide tanning, making holes around the hide

elk hide tanning, rinsing the water while its soaking

peyote stitch lanyard, finished up lanyard #2 and started another one #3

elk hide tanning, tann my first elk first step soaking in normal water

moose hide tanning, update on the first 2 hides

moose hide tanning, sanding down the hide, in the raw hide stage

moose hide tanning, stretching out the new hide getting ready for final scraping

moose hide tanning, soaking new moose hide in water making new holes.

peyote stitch lanyard, continuing on with lanyard #2

peyote stitch lanyard, continuing with lanyard #2

peyote stitch lanyard, starting the beginning of the beading lanyard #2

moose hide tanning, still scraping the new hide

moose hide tanning, scraping the fur side now after fleshing

peyote stitch lanyard, finished up the lanyard

peyote stitch lanyard, starting off a new lanyard