Sunray
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"...what I should do with it?..." Go talk to a taxidermist. There are tanning kits available, but tanning is smelly.
"...where you start to learn about leatherworking?..." Tandy's Leather has all kinds of books that cover everything about leather work. Some are about holster making and have patterns plus how to make your own patterns. If there's a local shop near you, they sometimes give courses too.
Twenty minutes in front of a fan isn't enough for forming a holster. The leather will still be damp and will keep shrinking. Leather does that. Expands when wet then shrinks as it dries. And it can shrink a great deal. Know a guy who made a leather bottle that would have held a litre. He put it in his oven, set on low, to speed up the drying and forgot about it. The bottle was prefectly formed and waterproof(lot of work with melted beeswax to do that), but shrank to shot glass size.
"...a finish coat of Leather-Sheen..." Regular shoe polish works best on non-tooled leather. Waterproofs and gives it a 'spit' shine with enough coats and buffing.
"...where you start to learn about leatherworking?..." Tandy's Leather has all kinds of books that cover everything about leather work. Some are about holster making and have patterns plus how to make your own patterns. If there's a local shop near you, they sometimes give courses too.
Twenty minutes in front of a fan isn't enough for forming a holster. The leather will still be damp and will keep shrinking. Leather does that. Expands when wet then shrinks as it dries. And it can shrink a great deal. Know a guy who made a leather bottle that would have held a litre. He put it in his oven, set on low, to speed up the drying and forgot about it. The bottle was prefectly formed and waterproof(lot of work with melted beeswax to do that), but shrank to shot glass size.
"...a finish coat of Leather-Sheen..." Regular shoe polish works best on non-tooled leather. Waterproofs and gives it a 'spit' shine with enough coats and buffing.