Don't give up so quickly, my friend. There may still be hope. Did you stretch it and stretch it? Doug
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] kool aid questions > I think I did cook it. I heated the bath in the microwave for 2 minutes, to just about boiling, then put in the rabbit and put it back in the microwave for 1 minute, let it cool then in for another minute. From what your saying tap water is only like 120-125 degrees, thats a 100 degree difference, oh well i have some great dubbing, i probably ruined the feathers though. > > john > > bradley robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >john you must be very careful not to cook the skin if the water is hotter than off the tap the skin will get cooked it is not neccessary to get the skin real hot at least not with rit dyes im not sure bout your koolaid dying but i have done rabbit with rit in warm water and i have used a hair dryer on the fur also you must restretch the skin again this actually tears the fibers in the skin and breaks it down again water will cause the fibers to swell if you do not stretch skin during drying proccess you will get rock hard skin ,stretch it, pull it, and crumble it, also rubbing it over a hard edge will work as well but the skin must be worked during the drying procces. > >brad > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hare conditioner, hhahahah good one deb, and its not even past 9:00 yet. Seriously folks I do not know what I did wrong, the skin dried out to the point if i move it it cracks, I will not be able to do anything but make dubbing out of this stuff, but that is okay. > > > >john > > > >"Deborah Duran" wrote: > > > >>What's that..... Hare conditioner??? Sorry I couldn't let this one > >>pass... :0) > >>Deb > >>----- Original Message ----- > >>From: "Joyce Westphal" > >>To: > >>Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 7:45 PM > >>Subject: Re: [VFB] kool aid questions > >> > >> > >>> I think that if you will very carefully, from the wrong side, rub some > >>> vaseline into the hard skin of the rabbit that it may soften up again. Try > >>> it on a small piece and see. I have also used hand lotion. There is a > >>> leather softener which I used to get from Tandy Leather, when they were > >>yet > >>> around, which made it supple again. So, since you have nothing to loose, > >>I'd > >>> try rinsing the whole thing in lady's creame rinse with conditioner, try > >>> vaseline, try a good lanolin hand lotion such as corn huskers friend or > >>any > >>> lanolin prepartion you can find. Joyce > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >--------------------------------- > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! > > >
