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Um, OK, yes, I have been accused of MacGuyvering from time to time. You might get a kick out of this ... No animals on site (except for an indoor cat, sorry to say). I do some wilderness adventures, mostly in a canoe, and sometimes I make stuff to make those trips easier. I also do a lot of...

Yes, you can make soap out of many, many different kinds of animal fat or plant oil. The video I linked shows you one online lye calculator (there are many) that provides formulations for everything from emu fat to cranberry seed oil (who knew!?) Mine is about 55 % deer fat and 45% soybean oil...

Thanks for the welcome. I don't garden at the moment because of where we live ... hope to rectify that in the coming year. Hunt and fish a lot, do some foraging. Make jerky and some dried foods, mostly for lightweight snacks to carry on various wilderness adventures. And the occasional smoked...

Hi! No, I don't tan my hides. Tried once as a kid .. the neighbor kid and I stunk up his basements something fierce. The one on the wall in the photo was salted and dried in the sun. Stiff as a board. (Um, I thought this WAS a new member intro post. Oops.)

Hi. I'm a Cheesehead into what I call primitive technology -- making things the old way. Beer, sausage, gunpowder, soap, etc. Wanted to share my latest info on using fat leftover from butchering a deer to make soap. Deer fat makes great soap! Check it out here! Come to think of it, I s'pose...