Started putting up some rats today, first time I've ever done them. I'm using an old wooden board and a hog scraper to flesh them. If I put the scraper in a vise and file it a bit to make the edge just a little more square (sharper) will it work better or will I just cut holes in the hide. Did six today and seemed like it took more effort then it should of.

use a butter Knife thats all you should need.
MNRATMAN

I use an old serving spoon. Works well.

what MNratman said.

Just make sure the hog scraper is dull and it'll work good. That's what I'm using to scrape mine.

I put them on my beam just like everything else and use the dull side of my necker.

I do the same as sniperbbb, they turn out great.

Thats also what my furbuyer has told me scrape all fat,but leave the saddle on.if after a day or 2 of drying there is any grease runs i dry it with paper toweling.

Nice pics, xtra!

xtra income is right i work for my father who is a furbuyer in sothern MN and we do around 1 to 2 hundrad a year and they are my job just make sure to clean up the bottums it can look vary clean all over but that bottum part can still have a good amount of fat and meat on it

i have used one of those plexiglas ice scrapers for years now. i'm sure it has scraped a couple thousand rats and i only have .99 cents invested.