This may sound like a foolish question, but do you need to dry or salt a wolf hide (or any hide for that matter) before tanning, or could you start tanning a raw skin? (I use that EZ tan from Halford's).
Flesh out the hide, pack the flesh side with salt and let it sit for a day or two, flesh it again then into a pickle solution for a couple of days. Rinse it thoroughly then your ready for tanning. Some tanning processes don't require the pickle.
As a note of interest, do you know why i would salt it? I thought that salting hide merely slowed down bacterial growth until you got it in the pickle. If i'm using a pickle, is this still necessary? Just curious..
My understanding is that salt is used to arrest decay. It does have another advantage though, and that is that if firms the hide which makes fleshing much easier than with a green hide. It's been years since I've scrapped a hide, but I do recall that most of the fleshing was done after some dehydration from salt.
Drying before tanning?
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