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Tanning Elephant Hide
29 November 2009, 03:50
SBTTanning Elephant Hide
My trophies, including 6 panels of elephant hide, feet and ears, have been delivered to Taxidermy Enterprises in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe for dip and pack.
I am leaning towards having the panels and ears tanned there at a cost of $13 a sq foot. Does anyone have any recommendations, special instructions, or do's and dont's before placing my order?
I'm thinking about using the hide for boots, wallets and a piece of carry-on luggage. The ears will ultimately be used as "canvas" for an elephant painting.
"There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark
29 November 2009, 04:35
MCI would have a panel or section colored to a brown tone. When you get it back, I think a mule halter would be a nice use of a few strips. Congrats on your bull.
29 November 2009, 08:45
jdollarsounds like you are going to follow in Will's footsteps(wallets, belts, etc). good
he needs some competition
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29 November 2009, 22:33
Jerry HuffakerThere's really nothing special you need to know, just tell them what color. They will do a good enough tan for you to make what ever you want out of the skins.
The only thing that would worry me is Taxidermy Enterprizes doing your dip and pack. They charged one of my customers last year $3500.00 just for the dip and pack charge.
They would not come down on the charges. We will NEVER be using them again.
Andy Hunter's Dip and Pack company would have only charged 600.00 for the same shipment.
Jerry Huffaker
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29 November 2009, 23:41
SBTNever would have thought of a mule halter - great idea.
Thanks for the head's up Jerry. I'm going to look into that. Everything has been delivered already. I wonder how hard it would be to switch to Andy Hunter. I think I'll ask Maria at Hunter International.
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30 November 2009, 18:43
butchloccost me 10/sqft in triangle to get one tanned. and i gotta agree 110% with jerry on taxidermy enterprizes they take every advantage of people that they can and then some
01 December 2009, 00:42
CowpuncherElephant tanning I know nothing about but my son and I hunted Zim April of 07 Taxidermy
enterprises done the taxidermy work promptly, they send pictures of it but the shipping went on forever, just received it in September of 09. The quality of the mounting work was just fine but the time frame to ship was way out of line and I don't think it was taxidermy enterprises fault, some gov. offical I guess.
01 December 2009, 01:29
butchloccome to think of it - i wanted a picture of the map of africa with the big 5 on it on an ear. tax. ent. decided to get one painted on their own, not even what i had mentioned and then sent me a bill for 1500 to do it. i told them to keep it
01 December 2009, 05:56
L. David KeithI'll agree; TE hosed us down and it took them 1.5 years to ship anything. I asked to hold my salted Zebra skin until I returned and they went ahead and rugged it. They insisted we ship in separate crates but I stopped that via John Meehan at Fauna & Flora. Then they charged us for dip and pack which was already done by my PH for $350. They charged me an extra $950 and my friend $1,200. Turn it over to someone else.
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01 December 2009, 07:28
Wildlife GalleryI agree with Jerry on this, Andy Hunter is very efficient and reasonably priced...
01 December 2009, 19:17
SBTWould someone please provide contact information for Andy Hunter? Thanks.
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02 December 2009, 04:12
JBrownSBT and everyone else:
I know that you all are not as vindictive as I, but if you do manage to get your trophies out of TE's hands I believe it would be great to drop them a note explaining that their shoddy business practices are to blame. Maybe it will make them think twice before screwing the next guy.
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02 December 2009, 18:20
butchlocjason - i doubt it - they've been this way for about as long as i can remember. new owner took over a few years ago, were ok for about 6 months and then jumped right back into the same old patttern