thinning hides

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Larry Timmons

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I've just started tanning some of these coyotes we kill instead of letting them go to waste. Seems like a shame to pitch 75 coyotes a year in the bar ditch. My question is where can I get a "currier's knife" to thin the neck and shoulder areas on the hides to get a tannery quality tan. I've been told to use a brass wire wheel to thin them but that makes such a mess I would have to work outside. The only knife I've seen that is called a curriers knife is the meyer 2 in 1. Is that what I need. I don't want to spend a bunch of money on a mini-flesher or a round knife since I don't plan on tanning that many skins. Any help is appreciated.
 
Get a Necker and don't look back. It'll run you around $50 bucks but it's worth double that.

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Jim, I have a fleshing knife, although I haven't got my beam situation worked out. Too cheap to buy a good oak beam so I made one out of a pine 2x6. Anyway, I don't have a problem fleshing them, I just needed to get them a uniform thickness all over. I was thinking I needed a courier's knife for slicing away the hide. By the way, my fur buyer prefers the sheffield fleshing knife. It seemed to work great on the giant pvc pipe he fleshes on.
 
I've never been able to work a sheffields like a necker. The blade is so wide, to me anyway it's tough to control. That and the metal the blade is made out of, I'd spend more time trying to sharpen it then I would using it /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif

PVC beams are very different then tapered wood beams. If your going to do any amount of fleshing you might want to try both.
I swear by PVC, BUT...I learned on PVC. I couldn't be converted to wood if my life depended on it, and that's not a good thing.

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You'll knowtice the necker has squared off handles to keep it from rolling when using the sharp edge of the knife. Can prevent a major disaster.
 
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