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Although it may take more time to tan the hides, the Al Kharid bank is near the Al Kharid tanner and so it is relatively easy to tan hides.
#ALIUM FOR TANNING COW HIDES FOR FREE#
A player can also create soft leather which can be tanned for free resulting in a profit of 125. To make more money, a player may tan their hides into hard leather and sell it for 123 coins more than a cowhide. It also grants combat experience, making it an activity worthy of a new player's time and effort. Killing cows can often be beneficial for low-level free players as the cowhides and raw beef obtained can be sold for a decent profit. On the downside, cows are more scattered compared to Lumbridge's cow field. The best place for Free-to-play players to kill cows for cowhides is the field northwest of Lumbridge because players may deposit their cowhides and raw beef they obtained with Beefy Bill, who charges a 10% commission. The Tower of Life quest must be done before Creature Creation can be accessed.
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Cowhides are also used in Creature Creation to create Unicows. Try find a place that is not exposed to the elements, is protected from pets. Lay the hide out flat with the hair side down. If the head is attached please remove it.
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Take special consideration to remove any excess fat or meat from the neck area. Soft and hard leathers can then be crafted into various pieces of equipment through the Crafting skill. After the hide is skinned, remove the excess fat and meat. Tanners can be found in Al Kharid, the Ranging Guild, Varrock, Taverley, Canifis and the Crafting Guild. If it is brought to a tanner, it can be turned into soft leather for free or hard leather for 3 coins. You also get leather that is stiff enough to make long lasting products such as our bags.Cowhides are dropped by cows when they are killed. The result is leather with a unique colour and an undamaged surface that is so beautiful it needs no further treatment in the form of dying or painting. After tanning, the hides are shaved, fattened and nailed onto wooden frames for drying in fresh air. Otherwise, you may damage the surface of the hides. Moving hides between baths and stirring them in vats should preferably be done manually, with a wooden pole or a shovel. During all this time, you must stir the hides in the vats, at least on a daily basis. This takes time, currently we take up to 12 months to tan the hides through. You need to tan the hides gradually, by taking them through a chain of baths going from weaker to stronger and stronger spruce bark concentrations. For us, that means taking it directly from the Pite river running just outside our door. The water you use should be as “natural” as possible. In our part of the world that means during May and June when sap is rising in the trees. The spruce bark should be harvested during the right time of the year. The initial step is curing the cowhide, which simply means cleaning it and drying it out. The hides should be from the very best quality, since it would be a waste of a lot of time to tan hides that are bad to begin with. A cowhide can be used for a variety of craft and decorative purposes if it is correctly prepared. However, there are a few more things one should think about when spruce bark tanning. (This kind of spruce bark tanning goes back at least 1000 years, so we consider it a proven technique by now.) Spruce bark tanning, with our recipe, is simply mixing Pite river waterwith spruce bark flakes in open vats where Swedish cattle hides are placed.