The Deer hide is taken out of the oak bark fully tanned. After tanning, the skin is washed, fleshed, stretched and dried into finished leather.
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So far this deer skin was fleshed and washed, soaked in lime to remove the hair, un-haired, washed and scraped to remove impurities and unwanted tissue, soaked in a drench of fermenting bran and then laid away to tan in oak bark. The skin has been soaking in a bath of oak bark chips for months longer than it needed to just due to procrastination and other circumstances. The hide is fully tanned through now and converted by the tanning process into leather. The tanning solution is washed out of the skin and the hide is re-fleshed a couple of times to clean off more tissue on the flesh side, and clean the leather of unwanted residue. Once fleshed and washed, the skin is stretched out with a slicking iron and a slicker before being tacked up to dry. Usually some oil would be applied at this stage, but in the case of this skin I don't oil it because I'll be gluing it to a board if I use it for the pocket strops I'm making in this series and the fat may interfere somewhat with gluing the leather to the wood. The dried leather will be stored until we are ready for it.
