tanning fish leather

makan kotoran

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has any body ever done it before? I've been reserching a few methods becuase i heard it's much different from the usual method of tanning hide. I've heard that urine works great. has anybody ever done it? any tips?
thanks guys
 
i've tanned other leathers, but never fish.???

i've always nailed to hide to a tree and rub the hell out of it with its brains. sun + brains = tanned hide...
but i have no idea about fish, though.
 
It can be done, but I have no idea how!
I had a few fish hides years ago they were tanned salmon skins from somewhere in the northwest.
I had traded with someone for them. They were leather just like any other leather, but damn...
you could tell it had been a fish! They made nice knife sheaths.
Since I had got them from some Northwest Native Americans, I would suggest doing some
research on some of the tribes there and finding out which ones tanned fish hides and what
methods they used.
I know eel skins can be tanned also. I still have some eel leather somewhere, it's a very thin
but very tough leather, unlike the salmon which is just much thicker.
 
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