must have been the way it was treated/taned etc, none of the skins we've ever had though here have had any noticable smell
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:rolmao:stuart f said:
Yep, the dried skins might smell, and they may even smell pretty bad :shock: when they have been wet. But then after a week or two on the trail, you don't really care about the smell of the damp skin :roll: compared to your feet :yikes: .
Tanned skins doesn't really smell (oh well, they obviously have their own distinct smell, but it isn't a bad smell).
The reason some reindeer skins are smelly and shed fur is because these are cheaper ones that are low-grade. I bought one in Helsinki a coupla years ago and it developed an acute case of alopecia the moment I threw it over my sofa when I got home! And it minged so it had to go.
If you want a decent one that doesn't shed fur and doesn't smell you have to be prepared to shell out £80 plus; I bought one from www.nordicarts.com which is in the UK, a few months ago and I'm absolutely delighted with it. After a chat with them they told me that there ARE several grades, the lower ones being more likely to shed and stink, and the grade1 being the best-tanned (which is what I got).
Oh, and a mate of mine bought one from a posh high street store in London (mentioning no names but it was one that sold reindeer skins from all the way over from their natural habitat) for £120 and it shed fur. Nordicarts do shedloads of other stuff too like Marttiini knives and loads of Lapland stuff from Sweden. I got a Lapp "witches tooth" carbon steel knife from them and it's the sharpest piece of kit I own (and the best-looking!).
If you want a decent one that doesn't shed fur and doesn't smell you have to be prepared to shell out £80 plus; I bought one from www.nordicarts.com which is in the UK, a few months ago and I'm absolutely delighted with it. After a chat with them they told me that there ARE several grades, the lower ones being more likely to shed and stink, and the grade1 being the best-tanned (which is what I got).
Oh, and a mate of mine bought one from a posh high street store in London (mentioning no names but it was one that sold reindeer skins from all the way over from their natural habitat) for £120 and it shed fur. Nordicarts do shedloads of other stuff too like Marttiini knives and loads of Lapland stuff from Sweden. I got a Lapp "witches tooth" carbon steel knife from them and it's the sharpest piece of kit I own (and the best-looking!).
I have one of these low grade ones, bought it in Norway in 2009 up in Narvik and it still stinks. Fur shedding too. Is there any way I can remove the smell or stop the shedding, or better yet both?
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