Salt the hide as soon as possible to inhibit the growth of bacteria. Although ive heard its on the net somewhere and our national library has one copy. After skinning, turn lips, ears and eyes remove red meat and fat.
#Acid tanning rabbit hides for free
Homesteaders raising rabbits for meat may offer hides for free because they don’t want to see the resource go to waste. You need green (raw, unprocessed) hides, non-iodized salt, alum, water, and a non-reactive container such as a plastic bucket with a lid.
Hard enough to find in Aus, don't know how you will go in the UK. Tanning rabbit hides via a salt/alum brine is easy and costs very little. Williams leather bound book from around the 40's that has everything to know about tanning. Other methods of tanning can give you a stronger skin.
If you want it to be even softer lightly rub with 2000 wet and dry or lightly buff on bench grinder buffer wheel. Acid radicals in the leather may directly. After dressing the rabbit, toss the raw hide (split down the belly, not cased) into a Ziploc bag and put it into the freezer. It might seem intimidating, but if you can butcher a chicken then you can handle butchering a rabbit.
#Acid tanning rabbit hides skin
Pull skins out, rinse them, hang them over the bath to drip dry using bent coat hangers to hold skins in shape, after around 36-48 hours they will be drying out, stretch them bit by bit and you will see them turning white as you do this, once this is done rub castor oil in to each skin as you go. Freshly tanned chrome leather is very acid because of the presence of sulfuric acid in chrome tanning liquids. Butcher Your Rabbit photo by Butchering a rabbit is an easy task. Put skins back in for 10-14 days, stirring whenever you can. Keep old solution and add half as much salt and alum. You can test for tanning doneness after the week’s up by simply boiling a small piece of hide for a few minutes in water. Keep the skins soaking at room temperature for seven days, stirring them at least twice a day. Beginning from the backside peel membrane from skin. Put the pelts in the liquid, one at a time, working each hide thoroughly to coat it with the pickle. Mix your solution, put them in for 2-3 days, stir twice a day or more if possible. Dispose of the tanning solution carefully. Plain salt without iodine from the store works well, and is about a dollar for a decent-sized tub.
It's already been rough fleshed and salted. I chose a pretty gold tipped blue steel rabbit pelt for this experiment. Make sure the salt doesn’t have iodine in it, as this will alter your results. 7 break (stretch and soften) pelt while drying. Skin rabbits and put straight in freezer till you have around 15-20. Take some non-iodized salt and coat the fleshy part of the hides thoroughly. I have tanned a lot of rabbit skins with alum and salt. I used the recipe from steelewilly on the previous page here it is
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