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So You Think You Already Know Everything? Well then take this quiz!

Its important for us here at braintan.com to assure ourselves that we know more than you do...so we developed this online quiz to help you test your knowledge of brain tanning and to make us feel smarter. There aren't any trick questions, but their are several based on very popularly held brain tanning 'myths'.

Select the most appropriate answer (he he he) to each question!

1. Brain tan...
is better than 'ban du soleil'
a natural way to make leather
does not really 'tan' a hide
a new age ritual

2. Hide glue is made out of:
a mucus in between the fibers
the hide fibers themselves
the 'epidermal layer'
scrapings off the butcher's floor (or was that hot dogs?)

3. The key layer to scrape off of the hair side of the hide is called the:
grain
epidermis
*#@*%* pain in the #*%
membrane

4. 'Bucking' a hide traditionally means that you are
riding it for all its worth
soaking it in wood-ash lye
selling it
tossin it into the woods

5. White buckskin was traditionally used by Native Americans for:
ceremonial wear
just about everything
depends on the tribe
blowing their noses

6. For brains to work they must be:
boiled
simmered for twenty minutes
raw
any of the above

7. When you are softening a hide, you are:
keeping the fibers seperated
breaking down the fibers
working your butt off
all of the above

8. Instead of brains you can use all of the following except for:
eggs
soap and oil
crisco and lecithin
urine

9. Smoking a hide will...
...get you arrested
...waterproof it
...make it washable

10. Brain tanners make:
better lovers
lousy neighbors
good massagers
all of the above

Score =
Correct answers:

If you scored:
below 40% -- Don't take this wrong but maybe you ought to read some of the introductory stuff on braintan.com ...
40 to 50% -- Got the basics
60 to 70% -- You're either an excellent tanner who could care less about the technical stuff or you've read all the books but never tanned a hide!
80 to 90% -- Ha! We tripped you up!
100% -- Do you want to take over this website?

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