Custom Tanning

ALWAYS Call us before sending your hides so we know to expect them. DO NOT send them Signature Required! This can result in a DISASTEROUS Delay in Arrival in our Rural area.

Skinning is additional, at the rate of $25 per hour. Fleshing and Turning is included in all prices, unless noted otherwise. Please Contact us for pricing for already properly fleshed and salt/air dried skins.  Please see our Definitions below and our Policies.

For Detailed Hide Care and Shipping Instructions please go HERE.

Please Include this Form with your Deposit and Hides For Custom Tanning. For your convience it can be printed HERE.

• Wallhangers – With 4 or less feet. May or May not have a face. Not Mountable or suitable for taxidermy.
• Wallhanger/Lifesize – Any hide with both a face and all 4 feet. Will be suitable for taxidermy.
• Cape – A skin suitable for a shoulder mount, No feet, Cut off behind front shoulders and at the knee, Includes face.
• SF- Soft or Dry Tan – Soft Finished Hide, for a wallhanger, rug or throw.
• WT-Wet Tan – For Taxidermy Use. Must be stored frozen.
• Garment Tanned – Thin, supple leather.  Faces are not shaved for taxidermy use, inner eye skin, lips and earbutts are often cut short. Suitable for Garments or just hanging on the wall.
• Cased – A skin with no belly incision, only cut up front feet a short way and cut from foot to foot on back legs. aka Tubed.
• Linear Foot – Length of a skin from the tip of the nose to the base of the tail.
• UGr – Ungroomed. Hide is as it came off animal, it may have chaff, burrs, sawdust and other foriegn matter.
• GR – Hide is FULLY groomed and clean, free of all foreign matter, sticks, burrs chaff, etc. All Species are groomed unless noted otherwise with the UGr abbreviation.
• Fleshing – The act of removing all meat and fat from the body of a skin.
• Turning – Splitting the lips, eyes, ears, nose, tails and toes for use in taxidermy.

ALWAYS Call us before sending your hides so we know to expect them. DO NOT send them Signature Required! This can result in a DISASTEROUS Delay in Arrival in our Rural area.

Skinning is additional, at the rate of $25 per hour. Fleshing and Turning is included in all prices, unless noted otherwise. Please Contact us for pricing for already properly fleshed and salt/air dried skins.  Please see our Definitions below and our Policies.

For Detailed Hide Care and Shipping Instructions please go HERE.

Please Include this Form with your Deposit and Hides For Custom Tanning. For your convience it can be printed HERE.

• Wallhangers – With 3 or less feet. May or May not have a face. Not Mountable or suitable for taxidermy.
• Wallhanger/Lifesize – Any hide with both a face and all 4 feet. Will be suitable for taxidermy.
• Plushable – Soft tanned skins with mountable faces and with feet. Special care is given to finish these skins with a realistic body shape, ready for Soft Taxidermy or Plushies. Simply rehydrate the heads and mount.
• Cape – A skin suitable for a shoulder mount, No feet, Cut off behind front shoulders and at the knee, Includes face.
• SF- Soft or Dry Tan – Soft Finished Hide, for a wallhanger, rug or throw.
• WT-Wet Tan – For Taxidermy Use. Must be stored frozen.
• Garment Tanned – Super Thin, supple leather. Fur is often “brightened”. Faces are not shaved for taxidermy use, inner eye skin, lips and earbutts are often cut short. Suitable for Garments or just hanging on the wall.
• Cased – A skin with no belly incision, only cut up front feet a short way and cut from foot to foot on back legs. aka Tubed.
• Linear Foot – Length of a skin from the tip of the nose to the base of the tail.
• UGr – Ungroomed. Hide is as it came off animal, it may have chaff, burrs, sawdust and other foriegn matter.
• GR – Hide is FULLY groomed and clean, free of all foreign matter, sticks, burrs chaff, etc. All Species are groomed unless noted otherwise with the UGr abbreviation.
• Fleshing – The act of removing all meat and fat from the body of a skin.
• Turning – Splitting the lips, eyes, ears, nose, tails and toes for use in taxidermy.