If you google it you will find several sites that show how to do this.
It is labor intensive if you are not using tanned leather.
Using Tanned leather speeds up the process.
I would love to play on natural hide; I do it all the time with hand drums. I play Fiberskyns on my set because it's the closest thing I can find in plastic. My main concern would be durability and susceptibility to weather changes. Plastic is more functional but there's something about the sound of real natural hide that cannot be duplicated.
Another Fiberskyn fan here. My local GC kinda laughed and shrugged and said they were "special order". Which they kindly did. Wonderful tone, the flip side is calf skins are fragile as heck. I remember the pre Weatherking days when half of the drumline would have split heads. lol
I wish Remo would bring back the Legacy head. The Fiberskyn heads always sounded really dry to me. I have one old maple Ludwig snare that has a Legacy on it and now I'm really careful with that drum. Sounds great for traditional blues or other old skool stuff.
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