measuring KOH

September 24, 2008, 12:18 am

I received my KOH in the mail the other day and finally started again on my hides. I'm putting one scraped in tonight and another in tomorrow night. Hopefully I'll get 4 or 5 for this mix, but they...

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Re: measuring KOH

September 24, 2008, 5:12 pm

Hey Devin, Measuring the KOH is best before you begin. I use at a ratio of 1 oz dry KOH to 2 gallons of water. I measure by weight on a kitchen scale. Most of the time I use a 40 gallon rubbermaid...

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Re: measuring KOH

September 24, 2008, 10:30 pm

Thanks Patrick. I went ahead and put the hide in last night, and this morning it was really swollen. I put another in this afternoon. Maybe the solution is a bit too strong this time, or I'm supposed...

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Re: measuring KOH

September 25, 2008, 1:31 am

HEy Devin, If you rehydrate hides in plain water before bucking them they are much easier to grain. If they have dried out at all, and you put them straight into the buck, even if they swell properly,...

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Re: measuring KOH

September 25, 2008, 4:18 pm

if your skins start to pucker that is a sure sign of having too much OH in the water..... one of the students at RS made an ash buck that was so super potent that it hurt to put my hands in it, but it...

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Re: measuring KOH

September 27, 2008, 6:20 am

Ahhh. Thanks guys. Of course I took the hides out to rinse today and there was some puckering. These things were extremely swollen and rubbery, about half their size as well. Guess it was a really...

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