Preparations and Shipping:         

·         All specimens shipped to us should have properly cared for…

o   Ears, lips and eyes turned and fleshed

o   Properly flesh all meat and heavy fat from skins

o   Salt well.  Leave for 24 hours and salt again

o   Shake off excess salt and hang skins up to DRY

o   After drying has occurred, place skins in cardboard box and ship

Service Charges:

·         Dorsal or case cut life size big game skins have a 25% extra charge

·         Except for whitetail deer, short incision on North American game is 15% extra

·         All foreign and exotic capes with short incision will be charges 40% extra

·         Rush service: 40 Business day Service will be charged 100% extra

·         Additional charge for capes that are cut excessively long

·         Skins with head will be charges life size price minus cost of hoof tanning

·         When your shipment has been received, you will receive a confirmation copy of the items you have sent.  If there are any discrepancies, please contact us immediately

·         We prefer a credit card on file.  Orders will be billed and shipped upon completion

·         Prices subject to change without notification

·         Return check fee is $20

·         Return shipment fee is $20

·         We reserve the right to refuse to process and handle skins that are unfit to be tanned hair on

·         Due to the many factors that have an effect on the final results of fur dressing, all tanning is accepted at the owner’s risk

·         When your skins have completed the tanning process, you will be invoices for the complete tanning charges.  It you are a new customer or not an established account, we will hold your shipment for 10 working days for personal checks to clear.  Upon receipt of a cashier’s check, money order, or Visa/MasterCard/Discover/American Express, your order will be shipped promptly

·         All shipments left over 30 days will be assessed a 2% storage fee for dry tans, 10% for frozen tans, and an 18 % finance charge

·         No metal or wire tags to be attached to hides or customer to be charged $15.00 if any blades are damaged

·         When finishing wooly or exotic hides, it is under Keystone’s discretion as to whether an additional combing fee will be charges by the hour.  Customers will be notified before the extra charge and co0mbing occur, and it will be decided from there as to whether Keystone continues with the combing an extra charge, or whether the customer will take care of the combing of the hide(s)

·         Hide prep is offered for all hides at an additional price depending on the hide.  This includes fleshing, salting, turning, removing bones, etc.  If a hide is received and had poor prep work, it is under Keystone’s discretion to complete the prep work and charge the customer and additional charge

·         All unsalted hides that enter the tannery will be charged an additional cost for salting

·         The venue and jurisdiction for any collection matters or other disputes will be Adams County, Pennsylvania

·         If a customer is in default and a dispute arises regarding services provided by Keystone Fur Dressing, Inc., the customer agrees to pay all legal costs associated with said dispute

·         Keystone Fur Dressing reserves the right to request from the taxidermist/our customer, the name, address and telephone number of the owner of the hides and to contact said owner

·         All specimens not retrieved within 6 months of notification that work on the same complete, will be sold at public sale at terms determined by Keystone Fur Dressing Inc.

Damage policy:

·         Salted or dried hides often have a tendency to crack and break during the shipping and handling process.  Infrequently tanneries may cut holes and machines may cause tears in the hides.  It is a rare occurrence that any hide is damages to an extent that is cannot be mounted.  We ask that you please do not phone our office over small, minor damages.  Keystone Fur Dressing is a wholesale tannery that tans hides for taxidermist.  Hides with minor damage should be an easy task for any taxidermist to repair and mount.

Coding:

·         It is very important that all hides be punched in the same general area by KFD.  Thus, we are asking customers to place their punches in a location other than where we punch on the hides.  Please remember to use a small punch to punch small, thin-skinned, or wooly animal.  A larger punch may cause the hides to tear easily and the hair will matt and knot up on both sides of the hide.  KFD punches in the following areas (when looking at the hide hair side down):

o   Capes: right of brisket

o   Full skin/ back skin / life size: right of tail

o   Paws/hooves/feet/tails: According to the size of the piece

Technology:

·         Cape: Shoulder mount; neck and head

·         ˝ Life size: cape + front two feet

·         Life Size: Entire hide; head, body, 4 feet

·         Full Skin: no head or legs

·         Back skin: Half of full skin

·         Display:  Life-size without feet (furbearers)

·         Life-size without feet: head, body, no feet (non-furbearers)