From Deer Hide to BUCKSKIN! Start to Finish
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Brain tanning deer hides into buckskin is one of those ancient skills shared among innumerable cultures throughout the world. Tanning, in general, is a great way to further utilize your game. In this primitive skills video I'll show you how to flesh a deer hide and turn it into soft buckskin but using egg yolks instead of deer brains! The water-soluble oils in the yolks act as a lubricant to keep the fibers from sticking together as the hide is worked dry. Once it's soft and dry, the deer skin is smoked for hours. The tar from the smoke is what actually preserves the hide and keeps it supple even after getting wet. Buckskin feels very different from bark tanned or commercially tanned leather. It's light and airy, making it a comfortable option for primitive clothing. With deer hunting season coming up, this is the perfect time to learn this primitive survival skill and get the most out of your deer.
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Your step-by-step guide from deer hide to buckskin is a masterful demonstration of traditional craftsmanship and skill. Sharing such a detailed and methodical process highlights your dedication to preserving and passing on valuable techniques. Your effort in showcasing each stage not only educates but also celebrates the art of transforming raw materials into beautifully finished products. And I am Floating Village Life.
Thank you very much!
Love it
damn haha making the jeans at the end really blew me away. they look like a pair of commercial pants. really good video, great info.
Many thanks
The way you showcase nature’s tranquility is impressive. This video is so soothing. Does anyone else feel the same?
Nice work Mr.Hayes. No music background, no talk...... A good, straight-forward video.
Glad you liked it
I’m going on vacation after watching that! I’m exhausted! Good grief, had no idea that turning a hide into something usable took that much work. I’ve skinned deer and elk before but never used the hide. Amazing and thanks Clay!
Give it a try!
This is almost certainly something I'll never do but fascinating to watch nonetheless. It's so wonderful people like yourself are making videos like these because otherwise this type of knowledge could be lost forever in the modern world. Visiting Idaho tomorrow for the first time!
Awesome, have fun
Best SHTF/Homesteading/Survival site on YT. Great stuff Clay!
Wow, thanks!
This is probably the best step by step no bs instruction I’ve ever watched on CZcams. Thank you sir
There is a reason they called it, "Working a hide." Thanks for the video.
Clay, can't tell you how much I appreciate your videos. I pray that in my retired life (a few years) I'll make the time to learn and do the craft time you share on your channel. Thanks for all you do.
Thanks 😊
Sense watching you on ALONE you have become such a great mentor to me. I can’t thank you enough. Cheers from a Canadian hunter/bushmen 🍻🇨🇦👊🏻
Incredible. It's sad to realise that these skills, developed over thousands of years, have been bred out of us, but inspiring to know people like you exist to keep them alive.
I had no idea how much time it took, and the amount of work involved just to get to the point of actually being able to work with it WOW. Great video!
He’s just goofin’, new pants goofin’. Great video, Clay.
I've done raw hide and tanned hides using very similar process, your hide came out perfect.
Great Video! A couple of well placed pointy sticks inside the sack while smoking improve flow of smoke and prevent the hides from touching each other which would cause spots that are not well smoked.
Awesome skill to possess! Thanks for sharing! That’s an unbelievable amount of effort for a pair of pants! It puts in perspective how spoiled we are today, but maybe not tomorrow.
But maybe not tomorrow! Reminds me of the Einstein quote about the fourth world war being fought with sticks and stones…
Thank you for such wonderful teaching, Mr. Hayes!
You are very welcome
The amount of work that goes into making this is incredible.
This is one of the coolest videos I have ever seen. You just made pants from an animal part. I may try this when i finally take my first deer.
My family is moving from California to Arkansas, and plan on building a place big enough for all of us, and as self-sustaining as possible. Your videos are going to be a major cornerstone of learning. Thank you so much for the immense amount of effort. You rock.
That is awesome!
When I was younger and had lots of time I did a lot of brain tanning and this video brings back those memories. I can hardly wait to retire in a few more years and get back into it. The hardest part of this process is getting full penetration of the brain (or egg yolk) mixture. Definitely start out with something thin like whitetail deer hides and then advance to mule deer and elk. It's hard work but extremely rewarding.
This is awesome! I just did this with my daughter’s first deer with her bow. I made two sets of finger tabs with it. And plan on making a knife sheath.
Awesome!
That was great! But your ''vine water purifier'' is still at the top of my list...!
I used my washer to clean my hides before tanning them, and, after tanning, double bagged them in garbage bags full of clean sawdust and put them in the dryer on air dry to keep them moving while drying. The drying technigue worked perfectly, and I recommend it. Cleaning hides with a washer cost me the washer and a wife. Too cheap to go to the laundry mat.
This felt very much like a primitive technology video. Really well done!
Thanks
Brain tanning is the best.....Gives the hide a Really long life.... Indian method of tanning....Clay surely knows...!!! Great Vid....👍👍👍👍👍👍
I agree
All about the sound of those poles at the start
Love a good pole noise, it's how you know you've got a good one.
Which is also a promising stage in a bow build
Ho Clay, that's great people pay a lot of money for pants like you make. Thanks for showing me I love it.
Every video you post is just a real delight, thank you Clay !
Your feather sticks are looking better than ever, you can't say that you're bad at it anymore 😝
Keep up the great work and stay safe :)
Thank you very much!
I live in a town in the UK, have a job (welder) I'll probably never have to do this but find your videos absolutely fascinating 💥🥊💞
Glad you enjoyed it
cant wait to see you make the pants! great content as always Clay
Fantastic video man. I like the end a lot when you just flip the skin and end with pants. Great editing. The pants look really good. My paternal grandmother was a seamstress and I spent a lot of time as a kid watching her work. I know good pants when I see one. And I see the fast die last t-shirt from last video made an appearance again.
Thank ya
It was so easy to immerse myself in what you were doing/teaching. Thank you for sharing you wealth of information and as another person mentioned, a great surprise ending showing off your workmanship like that. I have subscribed, your content is very appreciated.
Fantastic video, Clay! Some of the best content on CZcams for sure.
Glad you think so!
You had fun making that ending lol
Love it! Done quite a few wet scrapes and still managed to learn something! Love the pants ive got to make a pair forsure i hear they are strongest fabric there is. Punky golden pine gives a gorgeous color but its cool to know you can use something as easy as straw.
I've always wanted to know how to do this... thank you for creating this!
Awesome Clay, you amaze me every time I watch I learn something new, thank you for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it
This is/was enjoyable to watch, and a intensive labour of love to get a wonderful result. Yet, not like you would easily find fresh deer hide in the city, though there are a lot of fat does and bucks. 🤔Wait those are humans. 😮😅
😂
Never seen this process before, or heard about it. Great stuff! Will have to try it on deerskin here over the pond.
Great tutorial video! Now i need to get a deer!
Great video. Thanks for taking the time to make it.
Dude this is simply amazing awesome skills man. This is art at its finest. Hats off to you man.. this is a lost art. I really want to try this. I know I will probably mess up some things but I really need to try this
It takes a lot of work to make a leather, but the results are amazing.
Very well done, my friend.
Reminds me of the thorough explanations of projects found in the Foxfire series I read as a teenager, in the 80's..
Great books
I wish I knew someone that lived near me in Vermont that had land and did this stuff. I wanna learn a lot before I get my own land
Wonderful produced video , glad your providing this type of content.
Glad you enjoy it!
What a great lesson and a very well made video I loved it.
I made a tanned dear hide as a kid. I tacked it out on a piece of plywood, covered it with salt, then after a few days, i scraped the fat off if it. I did this twice. Then i soaked it in a hollowed out oak tree stump that was in our front yard. I filled the stump with water, oak leaves, and salt, then i keft it there all winter. I used a sharp Bowie knife and scraoed all the hair off of it. This made some pretty decent hide, but i didnt do much with it.
You make it so hard to watch dudes like Fowler.
Love the ending mate 😆 awesome set of pants.
Funny I was just curious on how to make buck skin now I know every step to do it keep it up these are very educational! 😁
Glad I could help!
I've got last year's deer hide scrapped and salted. I also saved the brains. Thanks for the motivation to take the next step. My neighbors are going to wonder what the hell I'm smoking now, lol.
🤣have fun
This is material science! Engineers go to school a long time to xome up with stuff like this.
You are an amazing Human! Truly. Thanks for sharing all the incredible things you accomplish ❤
Wow, thank you!
Another great video Clay. I always have tanned hides in the winter. Start softening on the frame and end up by the wood stove over a stake cause we get about 5 minutes of sun 2 or 3 times a month here in northern ny in the winter. Think I'm gonna start fleshing them and throw em in the freezer till spring.
lol I sat quietly and intently watching the process unfold step by step then in a blink of an eye you're dancing around in buck skin britches and busting out laughing 😂 informative entertaining and fun, Keep up the great content 👊
Thank ya
13:40
So the frame might seem a bit large at first, but the hide/skin stretches... And having the oversized frame leaves room to work.
Nice.
The reveal at the end was the best yet 😂😂😂
That takes some skills!! Good stuff.
Very interesting i enjoyed watching. Thank you for sharing your experience and talent.
Thank you 🙏🏼 Clay, that was a phenomenal amount of work and the reward was equally impressive. I envy your knowledge and I wish I lived out west to live a similar lifestyle 💪🏼👊🏼
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for a huge learning video , great great great
I know they are young and I’m sure you aren’t interested in having them on the internet but I’d be awesome if your sons had a channel on CZcams kids for my children to watch. We limit what and when my kids can watch CZcams but I’d be more than happy for them to see kids their age doing what they probably think is impossible for kids in the concrete jungle of the big city. Love your content man, hopefully one day my kids will enjoy your kids content and it’ll inspire them to get outside and learn. God bless.
I know his wife and son do have youtube channels! His son is Fen Hayes, haven't watched his videos personally, but looks like he is walking in his dads steps with the outdoors content!
@@BozhidarS Awesome. I figured his sons would follow in his steps. Kind of hard not to with a dad like that. The outdoor stuff is what I’d like to see my kids watch. If they’re going to melt their brains with CZcams, I’d be happy to see them watch kids their age go out and get their hands dirty. I do my best to get them out in nature fishing and hunting but wife and I are city stuck with typical jobs. I hate CZcams kids, Itd be a relief for his youngins to make content similar to his but to relate to the youth. The world and internet could use more of that. I’ll introduce my kids to their channel tonight. Thankyou
Yep, both boys have channels. Fen’s is mostly outdoor stuff. Coye’s is focused on sailing.
@@clayhayeshunter I hope your winnings on Alone made that possible, you deserve everything you have and more. I watched your bow videos and found out you were on Alone, we binge watched every season. How a skinny ultra-fit guy like you made it to the end is a testament to skill and perseverance. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.
Cool video! When you were wringing out the hide with the wood it reminded me of the jail scene from Shanghai Noon 😂
Good job you got this man.
"im not showing yall how to make shorts, dammit, i've done enough. haha excellent video bro :D
Great video, thanks for sharing your process brother
Great tuto, very nice to watch and what a quick pants sewing in the end ! 😂 I hope to see a video on that project as well one day 😉👍🏼
Thank you! 😊
I love this Chanel and its videos
😊
16:42 oooo perfect. I was thinking about where I could get scraps for glue. This part gave me a good answer.
I didn’t know this part. I just didn’t think about it.
Unable to suppress a chortle at the end; thanks Clay!
😜
oh deer, a lovely place for Mr. Trousersnake to play hide & seek
That was so cool! And the britches at the end was sweet! Does it get softer as you wear them?
love the ending lol
素晴らしい異世界
手際良く皮になる迄の数々の工程をこなす職人技はプライスレス
その上その皮で手縫いのパンツ迄製作するとは！
貴重なビデオですね、ありがとうございました
A realy realy good teaching video!!!
I see many work steps that have to be done continuously. Are there areas of the steps where you can just leave the skin there for now without working on it any further and carry on later?
Awesome!!! 👍
I’ve never seen someone dry scrape the fur off, only wet bucking! I will have to try this!
masterful and a lot of hard work at that! see now why products like this ring in the big $$$$$
Thank You very much for showing us.
You bet!
That was an oddly satisfying video. Thanks for video and sharing the knowledge.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Germany
Wow 👌. To possess that much talent.
Most excellent
Seriously, what a wonderful video.
That's a good looking piece of buck skin
Thanks
Great instructional video. My kids love it.
Great to hear!
Native Americans would be proud of this video, this is what they meant by honoring the sacrifice of the animal and using every part of it. Kudos, Sir
That is awesome, love the edits a the end lol
Hey Clay!! What kind of bush wacker knife would you recommend for solo campers. thank bud!...love you're content 😊
Fantastic, Clay!
Now... how the hell did you make the pants? Archery opens in a month, and now you have my wheels turning.
When you are working the hide to stretch it as it dries, does it matter if you do that on the hair side or the flesh side?
Well done Mr. Hayes .
Great job man,Jesus Love you .God bless you
Wowzer! Great project start to finish. Too bad one is not able to tan a half a dozen hides in cycle. Next episode, the making of the buckskin pants? All the best from Alaska.
Thank ya
Hey Clay, seen a couple fire perimeters up by you buddy. Just wanted to make sure you and the family are all good.
Yep, we had one fire get fairly close but not too close.
Im definitely gonna give this a try. How many days did this take
This is amazing.