WITHDRAWN thin white/natural color leather

[bubba.50]

I'd like to find for not much money a couple square feet of thin natural rawhide or leather. I think it's sometimes referred to as 'parchment leather'. Saw a couple old CVA's cut down & made into 'blanket guns' and they used leather like this for faux repairs to cover up the stock/for-end joint & I'd like to try something similar.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Go to the super market
Go to the pet aisle, and find a large rawhide bone, and buy it.
Put the "bone" in a bucket of water, overnight, and then as it has softened, untwist it.
At this point I normally put the rawhide between a couple pieces of plywood, and that goes into my vice for a day, so that it can dry a bit, flat. Then I remove it and allow the drying to finish.
When you're ready, soak it again to make it soft, then cut out what you need, and apply it, and allow it to dry. I line knife sheaths made of deer hide with dog-treat-rawhide, to prevent a very sharp knife from cutting through the sheath. It's like lining the sheath with a plastic guard, but..., it's a proper material.

LD

 

[bubba.50]

Thanks but, I believe that would be too too thick & stiff for my wants. And like a whole lotta work. Might just hafta wait til spring & shoot me a big fat groundhog. LOL

 

[appalichian hunter]

Kill ya a tree rat case skin him soak the skin in a buket of un-chlorinated water with some wood ash slip the hair and there ya go, very period correct.

 

[bubba.50]

Yeah, need somethin' bigger'n a skwerl.

 

[user 48702]

I'd like to find for not much money a couple square feet of thin natural rawhide or leather. I think it's sometimes referred to as 'parchment leather'. Saw a couple old CVA's cut down & made into 'blanket guns' and they used leather like this for faux repairs to cover up the stock/for-end joint & I'd like to try something similar.

Springfield Leather has a variety of rawhide as do other many leather suppliers, but your going to have to buy a hide or strips. I'm sure there is someone somewhere that will sell 1 or 2 square feet, but just about everyone I know of, you have to buy a hide. Don't know what thickness your looking for, but Springfield has goat rawhide 4-5 sqft for under $30, but it is about 1/32" inch thick. I buy from them wholesale, but they sell retail as well.

Link Springfield Leather Co. Rawhide

 

[bubba.50]

Yeah, that's why I put an ad here instead of just googling leather myself.

 

[appalichian hunter]

grounhog perhaps

 

[bubba.50]

Thanks all for the efforts. But I'm givin' up on this project as the deal fell through on the gun I was gonna use it on..

 

[deerstalkert]

if the deal resurrects, Bubba, pm me. i have some rawhide deer skins. more than a couple sq ft.

 

[deerstalkert]

i was going to wrap the wrist on that mortimer the usps broke . got as far as soaking the piece i was going to use and got the kung fu flu and pneumonia. gave up on that project.