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| Are you just looking for a piece of tanned hide to make a bangle out of or are you talking about a piece of raw hide that is cut and then dries to fit your wrist? I can help you with the former, but not the latter.
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| I also have some Hippo hide in a few different colors. |
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| Thanks for the replies fellas, I'll get back to you via PM. |
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| Not to hijack, but how is hippo leather? Good for using to make complex pieces, or like elephant (thicker)?
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| Very nice, soft and extremely supple. I find it to generally be much more supple and soft than elephant. I think you could make most anything out of it. I have had watch bands and billfolds made out of it. For rigid items like a knife scabbard it would need to used over stiff leather.
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| Will used some of my leather to make a passport wallet, and I have had 3 pairs of boots made. |
| | | Posts: 5338 | Location: Bedford, Pa. USA | Registered: 23 February 2002 |
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| Looks like the wife just agreed to a Hippo on our nex trip... Handbags and wallets! |
| | | Posts: 1490 | Location: New York | Registered: 01 January 2010 |
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| I have a hippo-hide sjambok that I picked up somewhere and it's totally stiff. Any suggestions on how to soften it up? |
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| quote: Originally posted by MJines:
Very nice, soft and extremely supple. I find it to generally be much more supple and soft than elephant. I think you could make most anything out of it. I have had watch bands and billfolds made out of it. For rigid items like a knife scabbard it would need to used over stiff leather.
the folks in RSA beaten with sjamboks by SAPS a few years back might disagree with the soft and supple opinion 
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| As I am sure most understand, a sjambok is raw hide, twisted and dried. I was referring to split and tanned leather. Frankly, I will pass on being beaten by either.
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