How do you preserve a pheasant cape to keep feather's fresh for fly tying? - preserving pheasant cape with borax
If you pick the layer you fall on a hard surface, skin-side. Scrape all the fat and meat from treated skin, then liberally with borax. Let's again for a few weeks, curettage of wetlands and borax, if necessary. If the coating is a wild bird and a few bars for the microwave and freezer to eliminate all errors, is probably a good measure as well.
If you are willing to keep the best buy storage layer, stored in a cool, dry place. Keep him from dogs and cats. If you are concerned about the quality of the cleaning layer is concerned, since it is separated by a few cycles of freezing / thawing, or in a Ziploc bag of other materials that bind to a few weeks. The pouch symptoms of infestation, then his stock of other materials furnished mind.
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I want to take some of the feathers and freeze them in a slide and
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