--- product_id: 2451078 title: "Deerskins into Buckskins: How to Tan with Brains, Soap or Eggs; 2nd Edition" price: "S$54" currency: SGD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.sg/products/2451078-deerskins-into-buckskins-how-to-tan-with-brains-soap-eggs store_origin: SG region: Singapore --- # 100% natural, no chemicals 165+ step-by-step photos Brain tanning method Deerskins into Buckskins: How to Tan with Brains, Soap or Eggs; 2nd Edition **Price:** S$54 **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > 🦌 Unlock ancient secrets to soft, durable buckskin β€” craft your legacy today! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Deerskins into Buckskins: How to Tan with Brains, Soap or Eggs; 2nd Edition - **How much does it cost?** S$54 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sg](https://www.desertcart.sg/products/2451078-deerskins-into-buckskins-how-to-tan-with-brains-soap-eggs) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Natural & Chemical-Free:** Learn traditional brain tanning using only materials found around your home or wilderness. - β€’ **Master the Art of Buckskin:** Over 165 detailed photos and illustrations guide you from raw hide to soft, durable buckskin. - β€’ **Versatile & Durable Results:** Create breathable, washable, wind-resistant buckskin perfect for hiking, hunting, or everyday wear. - β€’ **Beginner Friendly, Expert Approved:** Clear, organized instructions with humor and history make tanning accessible for all skill levels. - β€’ **Timeless Craft with Modern Insight:** Updated 2nd edition incorporates 15+ years of perfected techniques for flawless results. ## Overview Deerskins into Buckskins is America’s top-selling tanning guide featuring over 165 photos and step-by-step instructions to transform raw hides into soft, durable buckskin using natural brain tanning methods. This 2nd edition blends history, science, and humor to teach a chemical-free, beginner-friendly process perfected over 15 years, empowering outdoor enthusiasts and crafters to create breathable, washable leather garments ideal for hiking, hunting, or everyday use. ## Description America's Best Selling Tanning Guide. Over 165 photographs and illustrations bring you step-by-step from raw skin to velvety soft buckskin and then show you how to create beautiful garments and useful goods. You will also learn how to make rawhide and hide glue, tan in a wilderness setting and the best way to skin. History, humour and science make this book not only practical, but fun! Designed to be easily understood by the beginner yet rich with details for the experienced, this book teaches tanning as a natural process. No chemicals are needed! All the tools and materials are waiting around your home and land. While the tools are simple, having a great method is the key. This book has that method (see the following reviews). Buckskin is durable, soft, washable and warm. A hand-made garment for people all over the world for millennia, it breathes and stretches with your body, cuts the wind and won't tear on briars. It is excellent to wear hiking, hunting or around the house. Plus you don't need to hunt. Review: Outstanding instructions on getting it right the first time. - I purchased this book for myself as well as for my brother and nephew. It will take reading it through a few times as well as applying it a number more to really remember all the details and get the "muscle memory" from experience. I also ordered the excellent video which accompanies it. I will discuss and rate them together. Like the video, the book is of a somewhat "homegrown" production quality, but is fully sufficient for the purpose of the set, which is to teach you to be a good to great brain tanner pretty much out of the chute. I have read a few negative comments regarding this book, and while I find them to be petty, whiny and uninformed (one even stated he hadn't even cracked the book open before rating it poorly) there was one issue which bears discussing: production quality. For instance, while the video quality was obviously not a Hollywood production, does anyone really expect it to be? (Well, apparently one or two people would). But does it need to be? No, of course not, especially when you are talking about the subject matter. Do you really think the kind of person willing to stick a deer brain in a blender and then stick his hands into the brain emulsion as part of a long physically exhausting manual process is going to complain about the lack of studio lighting? The men and women who will be tanning hides are not the panty-waists writing poor reviews. The video is clean, there is zero wind noise on the mic, and the author and cameraman show you clearly and exactly what a process looks like, something that simply can not be conveyed in the book. Likewise, the book provides the level of detail and depth of understanding you can not achieve in a single video. While the book's drawings were done by the author (or a friend?) and not by a professional design artist, they still convey exactly that information which they need to convey for full understanding. Matt's writing style is down to earth with occasional light humor. He approaches each step of the process in an ordered, organized manner. It is important to rate products based on their ability to deliver their intended purpose to their intended customer at a good value. This book and video admirably achieve their goal of providing both the intellectual know-how and visual familiarity required for a beginner or less-than-expert buckskin brain tanner to be able to produce a great quality buckskin you can be proud of on the first attempt using these techniques, which Matt has perfected over the last 15 years as of the time of printing the 2nd Edition. The 2nd Edition book was edited in format to incorporate Matt's latest discoveries into the ordered list of steps. The video was not - it had the 1st edition steps, and then at the end discussed adding the acidification step after the bucking and rinse steps. He also touched on alternative processing steps for those who wish to try them. I do not find this objectionable - in fact I appreciated seeing the 1st Edition process first. It allowed me to even better understand how the simple addition of a new 15 minute acidification bath can improve the overall process and quality of the buckskin. If you are interested in learning tanning, be aware that the process is tedious, time consuming, and fatiguing. If you only want this as a library book it doesn't matter, but if you are thinking of tanning your own skins, be aware it is far from trivial and is a multi-day process. Don't forget the tanner's time capsule - the freezer is your friend. ;-{> Review: Great book - Best book for tanning deer hides. Very detailed and easy to understand. I tan about 2 deer hides every year and I still learned a lot from this book. ## Features - Tandy Leather Deerskins Into Buckskins Book 61967-01 ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #82,977 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3 in Leathercrafting (Books) #81 in Hunting #143 in Outdoors & Nature Reference | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 629 Reviews | ## Images ![Deerskins into Buckskins: How to Tan with Brains, Soap or Eggs; 2nd Edition - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71kOu99CUlL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Outstanding instructions on getting it right the first time. *by R***K on March 29, 2014* I purchased this book for myself as well as for my brother and nephew. It will take reading it through a few times as well as applying it a number more to really remember all the details and get the "muscle memory" from experience. I also ordered the excellent video which accompanies it. I will discuss and rate them together. Like the video, the book is of a somewhat "homegrown" production quality, but is fully sufficient for the purpose of the set, which is to teach you to be a good to great brain tanner pretty much out of the chute. I have read a few negative comments regarding this book, and while I find them to be petty, whiny and uninformed (one even stated he hadn't even cracked the book open before rating it poorly) there was one issue which bears discussing: production quality. For instance, while the video quality was obviously not a Hollywood production, does anyone really expect it to be? (Well, apparently one or two people would). But does it need to be? No, of course not, especially when you are talking about the subject matter. Do you really think the kind of person willing to stick a deer brain in a blender and then stick his hands into the brain emulsion as part of a long physically exhausting manual process is going to complain about the lack of studio lighting? The men and women who will be tanning hides are not the panty-waists writing poor reviews. The video is clean, there is zero wind noise on the mic, and the author and cameraman show you clearly and exactly what a process looks like, something that simply can not be conveyed in the book. Likewise, the book provides the level of detail and depth of understanding you can not achieve in a single video. While the book's drawings were done by the author (or a friend?) and not by a professional design artist, they still convey exactly that information which they need to convey for full understanding. Matt's writing style is down to earth with occasional light humor. He approaches each step of the process in an ordered, organized manner. It is important to rate products based on their ability to deliver their intended purpose to their intended customer at a good value. This book and video admirably achieve their goal of providing both the intellectual know-how and visual familiarity required for a beginner or less-than-expert buckskin brain tanner to be able to produce a great quality buckskin you can be proud of on the first attempt using these techniques, which Matt has perfected over the last 15 years as of the time of printing the 2nd Edition. The 2nd Edition book was edited in format to incorporate Matt's latest discoveries into the ordered list of steps. The video was not - it had the 1st edition steps, and then at the end discussed adding the acidification step after the bucking and rinse steps. He also touched on alternative processing steps for those who wish to try them. I do not find this objectionable - in fact I appreciated seeing the 1st Edition process first. It allowed me to even better understand how the simple addition of a new 15 minute acidification bath can improve the overall process and quality of the buckskin. If you are interested in learning tanning, be aware that the process is tedious, time consuming, and fatiguing. If you only want this as a library book it doesn't matter, but if you are thinking of tanning your own skins, be aware it is far from trivial and is a multi-day process. Don't forget the tanner's time capsule - the freezer is your friend. ;-{> ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book *by L***K on February 6, 2026* Best book for tanning deer hides. Very detailed and easy to understand. I tan about 2 deer hides every year and I still learned a lot from this book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Can't think of a better book for beginners *by J***Y on August 20, 2013* The lay out of information is very accessible and fairly concise. It does need a read through before you use it step by step. Another thing you may consider is getting his companion DVD which would probably be a better step by step. See picture is helpful, seeing it done real time would be better. Its a lot of work and managing your work area and the cadence of how you execute a technique is something you have to see in action. That said what you learn in this book worked for me with just a few bumps in the road and of course I have seen people do it first hand so I had some kind of feel for it, and chose scrapping it upright on the beam. What else is nice about it is there are "primitive" alternatives to all the more cutting edge techniques which is great if your on a budget. You can make your own tools or dig a hole in the ground as apposed to buying a smoker or small cast iron stove to smoke a hide etc. Another think worth noting is that he gives you alternative for things...its not a be all end all of brain tanning, but I would say that things like how he Alkaline soaks the hide (wood ash) as apposed to soaking in water to effectively "rot" the hide for scrapping is a easier method, but the down side is coming up with all that ash in the first place. My point is that what he lays out makes it easier for a beginner, at least thats my impression as a beginner ; ) Again this book is priceless for beginners, it gets my recommendations. All good medicine. 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