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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.

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CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Thanks! I’m saving this for the imminent apocalypse so I can make my Mad Max armor!

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- AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  You’ll want to look up some tutorials. I oversimplified the process.
  
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  - 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?
    
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    AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I’m a blacksmith, not a tanner, so I don’t know.
    
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Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
But when does the piss come into play? I always heard that tanning leather involves piss.

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- 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.
  
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  - Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    No, the urine is a requirement. I can’t get off otherwise.
    
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    Doom@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    You don’t think brains are hot? Shallow.
    
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- 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.
  
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