Sooner or later every hunter asks himself:"How to make a fox skin." After all, the fox is the most common animal in our forests. Out of fox fur there are fine winter clothes and accessories, so a well-made skin is quite expensive. There are different recipes for fox skins, in this article you will learn the most effective and budget.
When the hunt is over, and in the hunter's hands the paircarcasses of foxes, it's time to think about how and when to remove the skin. In the fox, only her fur is valuable, so it is preferable to refresh it in the forest. Of course, if you are holding the killed animal for the first time, you should postpone processing it until you come home, otherwise you risk spending a very long time.
It is important not to damage the skin, and leave whole paws, head and tail, so remove it by a method called "tube".
So, how to skin a fox?
It is important to get fur without any holes, and not how to remove the skin from the fox. But if in the process of freshness you still committed flaws, sew them up.
Rub the skin with a large salt and let dry for two days.
To make it easier to degrease the skin, afterdrying it must be soaked for a while in a special solution. Dressing fox skins at home is a bit different from the industrial one. To make a good soaking of the material, you will need fairly simple components.
Treatment of fox skin during soaking occurs as follows:
In a fairly large capacity you needprepare a solution based on a liter of water with a temperature of about 25 degrees: 1 tbsp. l. salt (stir until completely dissolved), mix with 1 tsp. detergent, incomplete tablespoon of acetic essence and two tablets of furatsilina.
Place the skins in a container with a solution.The first two hours, every fifteen minutes, the contents of the container should be stirred with a stick with a rounded end, so as not to perforate the skin and not damage the fur (if the capacity is small, the cooking tongs are perfect). Then the skins enough to stir every three hours. The optimal time for soaking is 12 hours. The degree of readiness is judged by the head and paws. In ready-made skins they are soft, as if they were only separated from the body. And if after 12 hours the soaked skins are not ready, the solution is drained, continuing soaking in a freshly prepared mixture.
Так как лисица не самое чистое животное, после soaking fox skinning at home requires washing. Washing does not only wash away dirt and dead parasites from the fur and skin, but also slightly degreases the fabrics, which greatly facilitates the subsequent smearing, relieves the skin of an unpleasant smell. Ideally, washing should be done both before and after.
To wash the fox's skin, laundry soap is best, but some use laundry detergent.
In plenty of cool water, beat the soap into a strong foam, rinse the carcass well and leave it to soak for twenty minutes, then rinse it in clean cool water.
The dressing of a fox skin requires mandatoryfrustration. Fleshing is the cleansing of the skin of the remaining subcutaneous fat and meat. After proper cleansing from fat, the skins become soft inside, soft, soft and pleasant to the touch.
The process of frying requires a large enoughexperience and concentration, therefore, wondering, “where to skin a fox?”, you should try to find someone familiar with this process who can control your first job. Treat this stage of work most responsibly, since it is during the intertreatment that the skins are most often spoiled. Each animal has its own skin thickness, and they need to be cleaned of fat and meat with different intensity and pressure, a little overdone - and all the fur will fall out. Who needs a fox without fur?
Best for home frustrationuse a convex wooden board, stretching the skin over it. In the absence of such, this stage can be done on your own knees, wearing old clothes and covering yourself with oilcloth.
When nudging from the inside of the skin bluntknife, inclined at an angle of 45 degrees, scraped film, fat and meat. And it should be done only in the direction from the tail to the head, otherwise you will leave unnecessary cuts on the skin. With well-soaked fox fat should be removed with ease, if it is not, you should repeat the process of soaking.
Pick or pickle?
Both pickling and pickling are very important.stages, without which no dressing fox hides at home. These processes change the structure of the protein, so that the skins become soft and pliable, stretch well and do not tear.
It is believed that fermentation has a better effect on quality.skins, rather than pickling. Really live bacteria affect tissues more gently. But because of their high cost and unbearable odor in homemade dressing, this method is used infrequently. In addition, this variant of the manufacture of skins longer.
The recipe for pickling is this:
Two liters of warm (not hot !!!) water is taken 0.5 kg of coarsely ground oatmeal or rye flour, 60. salt, 15 g dry yeast and 1 g soda. The skin is placed in a cool mixture and left to brew for 48 hours. Periodically the solution must be stirred.
Пикелевание хоть и считается менее качественным method of processing hides, has several advantages. For example, in a solution of chemical acids, the skin comes to readiness much faster, there is no unpleasant smell. So the choice is yours.
For pickling, mix 2 liters of water with 100 ml of acetic essence and 2 tbsp. l salt. In such a solution, the skin should lie no more than a day, although usually seven hours are enough.
Check the skin for readiness in several ways.
A few hairs are pulled out from the underbelly of a fox, if they are separated easily, the skin is ready.
Bend the skin several times, if there is an imprint on the skin, it is ready.
If the piece is separated easily, then the skin can be removed.
After pickling to neutralize the acid, the skin is placed for half an hour in a solution of soda (1 gram of soda is needed for 1 liter of water). Then it is left to dry under the yoke for a day.
Next, the skin should be dried on the rule. Constantly changing its position (fur inside and fur outside).
For fox-skin tanning is necessary. It will help protect fox clothing from external adverse factors.
There are many recipes for foxing (tanning). Here are two of them.
Apply the cooled solution several times with a brush or sponge onto the skin of the skin. Fold the skin out of the skin and leave to dry.
Making skins of foxes at home is a mattertedious. From drying will depend on the plasticity of the skin. Dry skins on the rule, constantly removing and stretching it in different directions. When the skin turns white and becomes tender, the skin can be left to dry, and after it is treated with fine-grained emery paper.
That the skin was not too dry, it will haveto live through. Per liter of water, take 100 g of soap, 1 kg. fish or pork fat, and 20 g of ammonia. Wipe the mixture with merezda and let it dry for a couple of hours.
Everything, the skin is ready !!!
