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CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 6 days agoHide is just leather with the hair still on it I think (not sure).
Comment on I just wanted a new recliner
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 6 days agoHide is just leather with the hair still on it I think (not sure).
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 days ago
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 tanning ro turn the skin into leather.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Thanks! I’m saving this for the imminent apocalypse so I can make my Mad Max armor!
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 days ago
You’ll want to look up some tutorials. I oversimplified the process.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Do you recommend bone spikes for the shoulders or should I go for more of a BDSM ninja vibe?
Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
But when does the piss come into play? I always heard that tanning leather involves piss.
Doom@lemmy.world 6 days ago
In traditional tanning different chemicals are used to process leather. Brains, egg yolks, urine, they all work. The urine isn’t a requirement, it a possible chemical compound a tanner may choose to utilize.
Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
No, the urine is a requirement. I can’t get off otherwise.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 days ago
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.