[TheForge] OT - Hides in ones Blacksmith shop

[Jerry Smith]

I was going to make an apron for the shop out of one
or more 'Yotes and maybe put fur on my hard hat.

Jerry
--- Wes Marquart <marquart at arlinn-tower.com> wrote:

> 
> I have some elk hide I was going to use for the main
> bellows.  The buffalo
> was going to be used for hinges and valves.
> 
> Some other things the buffalo hide was destined for:
> belts, possible drum
> head, and for the soles of some new boots.
> 
> Yeah, that stuff is [heavy].  And we do have a line
> on 6 more from the same
> place.  Biggest problem with it is that those
> suckers were heavily salted
>