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kevin.vinke

Joined: 19 Dec 2006
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Location: Niedersachsen, Germany

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 10 4:29 pm Post subject: My first sheepskins

These were two of the three lambs slaughtered before Christmas Sadly the other was too badly cut up from skinning).
They were washed (on the wool programe) then laid out and salted till I was ready to work on them.
After soaking I cleaned them up as best as I could ( I should have let them soak for longer it would have been easier) then they were left in a bath of 20 ltr water, 1Kg of salt and 250ml of battery acid for 48hrs.
They were then rinsed in fresh water and spun dry in the washing machine.
As they were drying I used a dog comb to tease out the wool.
A bit of stretching as they dried made them nice and supple.
I wouldn´t put a baby on them but as wall hangings or a floor rug they look very well.

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 10 4:49 pm Post subject:
they look great

frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 10 4:50 pm Post subject:
I think they are marvellous

kevin.vinke

Joined: 19 Dec 2006
Posts: 1304
Location: Niedersachsen, Germany

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 10 5:16 pm Post subject:
Thank you. Pleased with the way they turned out. I´ll take the white one up to the farmer I got the lamb off (plus 130€) this evening. He wants it for his Mercedes MTrac 1000 tractor.

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
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Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 10 6:03 pm Post subject:
Well done you - I plan to do that with the next lot of lambs we slaughter - one has a really white fleece

kirstyfern

Joined: 03 Jan 2010
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Location: Great Dunmow, Essex

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 10 6:34 pm Post subject:
They look lovely What type of salt do you use? Could you wash them in fabric softener now? I have 2 goats going off next week so hoping to get 2 skins back from them to do...

gil
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 10 9:45 pm Post subject:
Nice work, Kevin !

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 10 10:00 pm Post subject:
nice , i find scraping the most trying part of curing skins

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Sat Feb 20, 10 12:41 pm Post subject:
If you wash them with hair conditioner, the soften up quite a lot.

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