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What is the going rate (price) to tan an elephant skin into leather, here in the states?Thanks Royce | ||
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Royce, I highly recommend you do it with a reputable tannery in Africa. Some do excellent work and very reasonable prices. The tan is good and much cheaper to ship home. Have your leather work done here, but your dye and tan done over there. Our guys (Taxidermists) are some of the best in the world, but most will tell you "have it tanned there." I've just taken pics of a big bull Ele a friend of my took last year. During the tanning process (here) the upper dermis started to come off. It "ain't pretty" as they say. It will now take a lot of work to repair. Good hunting, LDK Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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The skins aren't worth much in Zim at least. I looked into selling one 2 years ago and they don't bring much. Just a couple of hundred I believe. I gave mine to my PH and I think he probably had it tanned on halfs. I saw some beautiful guncases,breifcases, and other goods made by a small company in Bulawayo. They did a beautiful tan soft and flexible and they dyed some really pretty colors. SCI Life Member NRA Patron Life Member DRSS | |||
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Royce, sorry I didn't really answer your question the first time, but if you do a search on "Taxidermists" you should come up with many of them. Check their price list. You'll see a wide difference in pricing, but I would venture to say $25 per square foot would be in the ballpark for US tanning. LDK Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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I know where there are several untanned panels here in the US at a taxidermy shop. The owner has just left them there and the taxidermist is trying to get rid of them. Does anyone know what the requlations would be on buying them from the owner and having them tanned here? Are there US of CITES prohibitions on selling legally taken elephant leather? | |||
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Not only may you have Cites problems, but the cost of tanning that ele hide here in the U.S. would be fairly expensive I believe. | |||
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I would love to have a small piece of tanned ele that was shaved down to make a journal cover. I wasn't able to bring any of my ele home and that would be just perfect...especially since the dog ate my African journal cover of that trip. _______________________________  | |||
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I'll send you a piece of leather. Tell me how big. And you can sell the leather here in the US. Just include a copy of the CITES permit with it and everyone's butt is covered. To me, it is just too expensive to get tanned in Zim much less here in the US. Now that Zim can export and the US import, it is near worthless. And by the time you pay to get it tanned, shipped here and pay the expeditor, yikes it's expensive. Unless you just want it anyway! ------------------------------- Will Stewart / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor Member, GOA, N.A.G.R. _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ Hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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PM to Bill. _______________________________ | |||
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You have it bad, don't you?! One time in Chewore, I asked another hunter that was there how many trips he had made to Africa. He told me eleven. Damn, I was envious. ------------------------------- Will Stewart / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor Member, GOA, N.A.G.R. _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ Hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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You act surprised? Even though we are a generation apart, we have common interests...I'm just not as grouchy as you are but give me some more time and we'll see what happens.  You knew I was serious about Africa years ago when we first met. _______________________________ | |||
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I don't recall the cost but I was happy with the work http://specialtyleather.com/ did. They did what they said they would do and stuck to the price they quoted. Kyler | |||
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