Two entirely different processes. Hides are skins cured with oil, fat, or salt to prevent them from rotting. Leather is a skin that gets soaked in quicklime, scraped, soaked in weak tannin, and finally soaked in strong tannin to turn the skin into leather.
In traditional tanning different chemicals are used to process leather. Brains, egg yolks, urine, they all work. The urine isn’t a requirement, it’s a possible chemical compound a tanner may choose to utilize.
While you can do it that way, I don’t know the process. I know how to make tannin by soaking oak logs in water.
And yes, that is probably the first way we figured out how to do it, but as I understand it, that’s a very stinky process, and to be totally honest, I found tannin made from oak to be rather smelly.
Metal spikes? I really want to make a good impression when roving the wasteland. Also I’m thinking like a couple of short swords but i have questions about the intimidation factor. Maybe just a broadsword for show and then the short swords for chopping up my enemies. Hmmmm
Two entirely different processes. Hides are skins cured with oil, fat, or salt to prevent them from rotting. Leather is a skin that gets soaked in quicklime, scraped, soaked in weak tannin, and finally soaked in strong tannin to turn the skin into leather.
But when does the piss come into play? I always heard that tanning leather involves piss.
In traditional tanning different chemicals are used to process leather. Brains, egg yolks, urine, they all work. The urine isn’t a requirement, it’s a possible chemical compound a tanner may choose to utilize.
No, the urine is a requirement. I can’t get off otherwise.
You don’t think brains are hot? Shallow.
While you can do it that way, I don’t know the process. I know how to make tannin by soaking oak logs in water.
And yes, that is probably the first way we figured out how to do it, but as I understand it, that’s a very stinky process, and to be totally honest, I found tannin made from oak to be rather smelly.
Thanks! I’m saving this for the imminent apocalypse so I can make my Mad Max armor!
You’ll want to look up some tutorials. I oversimplified the process.
Do you recommend bone spikes for the shoulders or should I go for more of a BDSM ninja vibe?
I’m a blacksmith, not a tanner, so I don’t know.
Metal spikes? I really want to make a good impression when roving the wasteland. Also I’m thinking like a couple of short swords but i have questions about the intimidation factor. Maybe just a broadsword for show and then the short swords for chopping up my enemies. Hmmmm
Retractable metal spikes, with a big sign that says, “FREE HUGS”
Oooh I like how you think