How to Remove Rawhide Molding Before it Hardens

Video Transcript

"Hello there on behalf of ExpertVillage.com my name is Candance Copeland. I am here today giving you some ideas about what you can do with raw hide. We've gone through the process of the molding and talk briefly on getting it off at the right time. That's the most critical part of this art is that. That moment in time it might be 6 hours it might be 12 hours it might be 2 days it just depends on the hide. This one was a difficult one to work with cause it is very thick. It was an extremely thick hide so when I saw it is was starting to like shrink up and get like ague. I will never get this space out of here so because the hide was so stiff I took it out when it was still quite wet. So what happened is that it just shrunk up as it continued the drying process but I thought well you know what I'm not going to let it go I'm still going to make it work. I got a nice piece of drift wood and turned that little space in there with dew claws which are deer toe nails and some little tin cones which the natives used a lot in there rattle making. It just makes a real fun rattle just so he was just a again taking it off is so critical the same way with the buffalo. Trying to get this buffalo off at that right moment and the fact that it is was in the round like this isn't like its flat it was again quiet a challenge. And then we have one other to show you so you get the idea this one is a horse what I've done with this is got a little coyote fur on it put these two little candle holders on the back that you can put a little tea light in and there you can see what happens on the backside so when this is lite the horse appears to be flickering and dancing so experimenting a little bit with trying to work with them with tea lights but again that critical moment to keep them and with this one had to kind of swoop it around this way to make it grab on like is was really trying to climb this rock and its three that's the mold but it's very hard to see but it was showing that movement and thats why I wanted to have the candles to show the movement. So that taking those off the molds that's the point that you really have to be you know you'll work at for a while if you decide to use this as your medium."