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Offline Mike from OK

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Deer skins
« on: February 23, 2020, 06:45:40 PM »
Nordnecker's post "Educate me on this hide" got me to thinking...

Are most commercially tanned deer skins veg or chrome tanned? I have some tanned deer skin. It doesn't have the tell tale blue-gray tannage line in the middle of it... But it just doesn't strike me as being veg tan.

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Offline T*O*F

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Re: Deer skins
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2020, 08:11:08 PM »
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It doesn't have the tell tale blue-gray tannage line in the middle of it
I used to send 10-15 hides a year to the Berlin Glove Factory before they were bought out by WB Place.  You could request that they be dyed any number of colors.  NONE ever had a blue-gray line in the middle.  Only the un-dyed hides were that color.  Those hides wouldn't respond to a RIT dye bath, nor a walnut dye bath.  They could only be colored with an alcohol based dye like Feibings.
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Offline Mike from OK

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Re: Deer skins
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2020, 09:35:39 PM »
Quote from: T*O*F on February 23, 2020, 08:11:08 PM
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It doesn't have the tell tale blue-gray tannage line in the middle of it
I used to send 10-15 hides a year to the Berlin Glove Factory before they were bought out by WB Place.  You could request that they be dyed any number of colors.  NONE ever had a blue-gray line in the middle.  Only the un-dyed hides were that color.  Those hides wouldn't respond to a RIT dye bath, nor a walnut dye bath.  They could only be colored with an alcohol based dye like Feibings.

Much as I figured.

Mike
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Offline Nhgrants

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Re: Deer skins
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2020, 03:55:01 AM »
I recently noticed this blue gray line on the edge of some leather that I have.
What causes it?
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Offline Mike from OK

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Re: Deer skins
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2020, 04:36:18 AM »
Chrome tanned.

Mike
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