Author: Monte Burch
Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT ( THE LYONS PRESS, FALCON), Nov 2002
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 1-58574-670-3
Synopsis
From a master, a comprehensive guide to preserving skins & pelts. Introduces the hunter to the tools of a tanner, & even gives complete plans for making many of these implements. Instructions are given for making fleshing beams, stretchers for pelts, fleshing knives, & many others. Tanning formulas & materials, both traditional & modern. B&W illus. & photos; 6x9 inches, 240 pgs.
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Here is the complete guide to a skill that may be mysterious to some, written by Monte Burch, an authority who practices many of the traditions of tanning and hiding. Starting at the beginning, Burch introduces the hunter to the tools of a tanner, and even gives complete plans for making many of these implements. Instructions are given for making fleshing beams, stretchers for pelts, fleshing knives, and many others. He also covers tanning formulas and materials, both traditional and modern.
Other topics include:
* Skinning small game
* Stretching and drying pelts
* Tanning small-game pelts
* Skinning big game
* Tanning big game
* Making buckskin
* Tanning domestic hides
* Skinning and tanning reptiles
* Skinning and tanning birds
From the oldest method to the newest twist, Burch?s guide will be indispensable to the modern hunter.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Monte Burch has been trapping and tanning since the 1950s, and writing about the outdoors for four decades. He has written thousands of magazine articles and more than fifty books?including Field Dressing and Butchering Upland Birds, Waterfowl, and Wild Turkeys; Field Dressing and Butchering Deer; and Field Dressing and Butchering Rabbits, Squirrels, and Other Small Game. He lives on a farm in the Missouri Ozarks, where trapping and tanning are a way of life.
