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This worked unbelievably well-- and on my first try too. After putting on the egg yolks it started to smell pretty bad and I figured I had ruined it, but after abrading it and waiting a few days the smell went away. i gave it to my mom for a present and she absolutely adores it. Thank you!
I did this with rabbit skins before. There's a catch not mentioned in the video: use the skin only when the animal is not near its shedding time, otherwise, the skin will shed all (or most of) its fur in the first months of use.
The "hard" way just involves a couple more soaking steps and more materials, not much extra labour honestly. Produces a nicer leather too, but this is definitely way cheaper and quicker!
this was fun to watch.my grandfather has a couch cover that is made of sheep hide and i always wondered how it's done.(he has another which is made of cow hide)
@@madelynt1615hi is that that only cause of hair slip? Im working on a sheepskin and the hair was coming out from day 1. But now I've washed it a couple of times it's coming out in chunks...
excellent job done. brief and precise.. this is the method which was used in Pakistan. salt and alum.. but here we anchor sheep skin on flat surface anchor with rope or nails at corner to keep it flat.. we cover surface with salt for couple of days and after that use alum solution.. that also did well. but now everyone buy rather then doing by self
شوفوا يا عرب يا مسلمين اللي ربنا ما يحبس التبذير هو أجنبي و ما رماش الهيدورة و احنا تكبرنا و عفنا و أصبحنا أتباعهم في كل شيء رمينا الصوف الطاهرة الزينة و اقتنينا البلاستيك تاع ماريكان الله يهدينا ام ايوب
@@fatimaamr917 عذر اقبح من ذنب 👎ماشيا تعنا احسن ماشية في عالم ومن اجواد انواع الغنم وحتى اومراء سعودية وإيمارات يشتروا من عدنا لانها افضل بصح حنا كي طورنا الى اسوء انا راني نتعلم كيفاه نخدمهم 😒 وصعاب بزاف بصح هذي زوجا لي راني نخدم فيها 😁
Hello - Awesome, informational, to the point video. I'm butchering my first lamb in a few weeks and will use your video as my guide. If i may, I have a question: Instead of thee three egg yolks, could the lamb's brain be used instead? There are lots of brain tanning videos out there but none that deal with sheep skin and the specific method you use.
Very useful video. I don't know what Alum is, but will google it. Does the treatment process have to start asap after slaughter - I have a few fleece that are bundled up and hanging for years as didn't know what to do with them?
Robert's Bulgaria as I understand the hides (or fleece) are normally salted to prevent décompositions, rot, fungi.. if salted they can be kept for a while (days, weeks) but maybe not years. Hope that helps.
Wow it is so easy. I have a question its gage is not so thick as compare to baby cow hair on skins becaue i am making and facing a problem at the end hairs are save and beatiful but hide becomes hard which is called bone ???????
Wow! That's awesome--I've tried brain tanning and also chemical tanning and haven't had much luck---I've had the most difficulty getting all the membrane off---any chance you sell the fleshing knife you made in the video? If so, do you ship to Canada? When you say to 'abrade' the sheepskin with a pumice or sandpaper, are you removing the dried on eggyolk, or are you just roughing the hide up? Also wondering if when the sheepkin is tanned, can it be washed in the washing machine when it gets dirty? Thanks! Very informative video.
There's a fleshing knife with two handles the brand is where #12 he's fleshing it the hard way in this video if you ask me also get a much cleaner hide if you do it my way
I am trying to do what you do. But when i put the skin with alum and salt, i put it for 1 week and 5 days. And now, i assume that the longer we put the skin with alum and salt, the more the skin will be harden. Does this assume is true? I will try to prove this assume next year, when we have chance to get sheepskin from e'id adha. Btw, thank you for your tutorial, it helped me a lot.
It looks like the hide is still pretty stiff, due to not stretching and actually breaking the hide. Although it is a beautiful piece for display. Good job 👍🏼
I followed the video. Thank you for the clear tutorial! Mine came out pretty hard. Do you know what I did wrong or how to soften it? Also, can I get it wet and wash it again to get some of the egg yolk out of the hair?
hi this is coming from someone working with their first sheep hide what would you say is your ratio of alum to salt?? the person who gave me the hide wants it to turn out really nice so they can use it so i would really appreciate the help
SO. MUCH. WORK. I live on a small sheep farm where they process the animals for meat only and toss the skins, which seems wasteful. I've wanted to try tanning the free skins, but every tanning video I've watched convinces me that I'm much better off going to my carpentry job, earning money, and buying tanned hides.
I've currently got 3 sheepskin and 2 goat skins in the pickle using this technique. Thank you for this wonderful simple walk through. Hopefully in a life bit of time I'll have some lovely soft hides.
great video thanks for the info i have a question ... i have a cowhide and i left it with salt and water to dry out and it went solid as i left it for week ( big mistake ) after i tried to soften it by fleshing off the skin ..it still very solid what would you advise ?
we noticed a foul smell after taking our sheepskins out of the salt alum solution. we are now at the egg drying stage and there is still a fairly foul smell. Will this go away after the stretch and boarding and sanding?....or have we somehow ruined our hides?
I just tanned my first sheepskins, which turned out perfect, but nothing like this. They did not smell at all, because I fleshed them properly, and washed them thoroughly before I started the pickling process. Leaving all the membranes on like this, it is going to rot and stink. It is going to be discoloured like these are. It is not going to absorb the oil into the hide. It is not going to stretch out properly. My skins are beautiful smooth, flat, creamy-white and smell great.
I wish I had seen this video before I have destroyed two sheep skins trying to make them clean. Every time I was unable to make the skin soft.it remained stiff
Thank you for this amazing video, i did everything exactly as you did, bit wheni finished the tanning with alum process and i started drainng the hide for drying, i noticed hair is falling and i had some empty spots on the wool side and still some hair is "easily" falling of not from all sides but some sides , why is that?
I'm sorry about that. It could be one of these reasons. 1. evaporating - Fresh or wet hide must breathe. 2. alkaline environment - Hides have to be acidic. Dont use detergent for a long time and be sure to rinse it out properly. 3. sick or molting animal
Thanks for the great video! Can you tell me the exact number of things i need to do?! (like how many times to stir in a day when it is in the barrel! Or how much grams of salt or alum?!)
catwithoutthe hat Nice! I’m pretty sure. I guess until the water is cloudy from the salt and alum but not white. Also not too clear to where it like regular water.
@@sohailahoj755 It turned out alright. I managed to sand down the now hardened leather, and got the same results as in the video. However, there were some parts that just wouldn't manage, and they are still a bit stiff. The transistion to the places where it had dissolved are okay. This is my first skin though, so I'm still pretty fresh with this
Water enough to keep the hide completely under water. The ratio of salt to alum is 2/1. The total amount for one sheepskin is approximately the content of a pepsi can. I've never tried soda. Good luck ;)
I have 13 goat hides that I fleshed and dried. They just aren't soft. Is it possible to soak again to soften and stretch? Or am I SOL? Great video ,btw!
I have the same experience with goats. Maybe is better to stretch it onto a frame. You can soak and dry how many times you want but dont forget to lubricate again.
Cristian Hernandez looks like he's using a carding brush. It is used when preparing wool to be spun into thread/yarn. Not a comb anyone has for their own hair.
Ya, especially if you've worked in the fur trade like I have...lol. I always keep my draw knives razor sharp though... just work the hide gently and you won't cut holes, keeping it tight is key
The fall of the wave causes an alkaline environment. Do not soak the hide in soap for too long. After washing rinse it thoroughly in clean water. Another reason is steaming. Fresh warm skin must cool down before wrapping.
Hi, fantastic video. If it's made with brains, the process is the same? Because to me 1 week with brains inside a close container will probably rot the hide. Thanks
This worked unbelievably well-- and on my first try too. After putting on the egg yolks it started to smell pretty bad and I figured I had ruined it, but after abrading it and waiting a few days the smell went away. i gave it to my mom for a present and she absolutely adores it. Thank you!
What is secret of being the skin soft and mushy like this ?
@@selmachel7002 Breaking it softens the skin.
Should i wash the skin after using egg yoke or not?and what is alum ?plz reply
hamna chaudhary it’s called phitkari in Urdu / hindi
@@hamnachaudhary4657 have you tried this on any skin? Please share the results
I did this with rabbit skins before. There's a catch not mentioned in the video: use the skin only when the animal is not near its shedding time, otherwise, the skin will shed all (or most of) its fur in the first months of use.
Thanks for advice
Sheep don't shed there fur
Some breeds, known as hair sheep, shed their fur in the spring. Dorpers and Katahdins, for example.
Beautiful work! You make it look so graceful. If this is the easy way, I can’t imagine how involved the hard way would be.
The "hard" way just involves a couple more soaking steps and more materials, not much extra labour honestly. Produces a nicer leather too, but this is definitely way cheaper and quicker!
Funny to see alum being used in the tanning process, I've only alum as a post-shave, nice to know it can be used for tanning sheepskin as well!
Thank you so much for operating with watering cans. I am so grateful someone else does!
J'ai regardé ta vidéo plusieurs fois.
Tu m'as bien aidée! !!
Merci
this was fun to watch.my grandfather has a couch cover that is made of sheep hide and i always wondered how it's done.(he has another which is made of cow hide)
Thanks a lot
I tan a goat skin by viewing your method . Now I make prayers (namaaz) on it.
What amount of alum and salt did u use
@@lillythelamb1170 to one sheep is 500 grams of alum of potasio and 1 kilo of salt( normal salt) in 20 litro of clear water
Is the best, for the knes!!! Is lovely to pray there
@@urinurin7699 what did you put with egg yolk
Now I understand why Uggs are so expensive.
LMAO WHAT 😂
Hahaha thank you xxx
pro-tip....If you have the time and you're in the right climate, the ants will do most of the fleshing for you.
Big brain time
Fur will slip.
Now thats is a shiny little pearl of wisdom. Thank you
Aboriginal way
@@madelynt1615hi is that that only cause of hair slip? Im working on a sheepskin and the hair was coming out from day 1. But now I've washed it a couple of times it's coming out in chunks...
Looks great, im going to try on a sheep skin i been keeping. Thanks
excellent job done. brief and precise.. this is the method which was used in Pakistan. salt and alum.. but here we anchor sheep skin on flat surface anchor with rope or nails at corner to keep it flat.. we cover surface with salt for couple of days and after that use alum solution.. that also did well. but now everyone buy rather then doing by self
nice work buddy keep up the good work :))
I used to do it as a child, a day or two after the Aid Kebir. Greetings from Morocco ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
Good video. Whoever does this regularly must equip himself with a fleshing beam or stand and a hide softening stake, among other specialized tools.
شوفوا يا عرب يا مسلمين اللي ربنا ما يحبس التبذير هو أجنبي و ما رماش الهيدورة و احنا تكبرنا و عفنا و أصبحنا أتباعهم في كل شيء رمينا الصوف الطاهرة الزينة و اقتنينا البلاستيك تاع ماريكان الله يهدينا ام ايوب
الصراحۃ نوعيۃ الجلود تلعب دور هنا الماشيۃ تاعنا مفيهاش صوف بزاف و موسخۃ بزاف تضيع الماء بزاف
@@fatimaamr917 عذر اقبح من ذنب 👎ماشيا تعنا احسن ماشية في عالم ومن اجواد انواع الغنم وحتى اومراء سعودية وإيمارات يشتروا من عدنا لانها افضل
بصح حنا كي طورنا الى اسوء
انا راني نتعلم كيفاه نخدمهم 😒 وصعاب بزاف بصح هذي زوجا لي راني نخدم فيها 😁
ععععععهههههه
@Nafissa Soualmi وش المواد اللي خلطها
@Nafissa Soualmi استعمل الملح والشب واصفر اليض مع الماء واغسلها بالصابون سائل
Hello - Awesome, informational, to the point video. I'm butchering my first lamb in a few weeks and will use your video as my guide. If i may, I have a question: Instead of thee three egg yolks, could the lamb's brain be used instead? There are lots of brain tanning videos out there but none that deal with sheep skin and the specific method you use.
Very useful video. I don't know what Alum is, but will google it. Does the treatment process have to start asap after slaughter - I have a few fleece that are bundled up and hanging for years as didn't know what to do with them?
Robert's Bulgaria as I understand the hides (or fleece) are normally salted to prevent décompositions, rot, fungi.. if salted they can be kept for a while (days, weeks) but maybe not years. Hope that helps.
Wow it is so easy.
I have a question its gage is not so thick as compare to baby cow hair on skins becaue i am making and facing a problem at the end hairs are save and beatiful but hide becomes hard which is called bone ???????
Thank you! Going to follow your tutorial to the tee xxx
very interesting .. thanks for uploading this.
AMAZING I LOVE IT THANK YOU 🙏
Wow! That's awesome--I've tried brain tanning and also chemical tanning and haven't had much luck---I've had the most difficulty getting all the membrane off---any chance you sell the fleshing knife you made in the video? If so, do you ship to Canada? When you say to 'abrade' the sheepskin with a pumice or sandpaper, are you removing the dried on eggyolk, or are you just roughing the hide up? Also wondering if when the sheepkin is tanned, can it be washed in the washing machine when it gets dirty? Thanks! Very informative video.
try a pressure washer. very easy. you do have to use a special 4000-5000psi spray head though. lots of you tube videos. good luck!
There's a fleshing knife with two handles the brand is where #12 he's fleshing it the hard way in this video if you ask me also get a much cleaner hide if you do it my way
this is so complicated! in Algeria we do it only with salt and it's done, maybe the quality will not be the same, that's it.
Please Make a video about goat skin tanning process
this can be used to make some COMFY carpet!
A handy thing might be the alum and water recipe.. you know for people watching and trying themselves
I am trying to do what you do. But when i put the skin with alum and salt, i put it for 1 week and 5 days. And now, i assume that the longer we put the skin with alum and salt, the more the skin will be harden. Does this assume is true? I will try to prove this assume next year, when we have chance to get sheepskin from e'id adha. Btw, thank you for your tutorial, it helped me a lot.
Tip for fleshing use a dry dish cloth to grab and pull it
It looks like the hide is still pretty stiff, due to not stretching and actually breaking the hide. Although it is a beautiful piece for display. Good job 👍🏼
Thank you so much for the video
I followed the video. Thank you for the clear tutorial! Mine came out pretty hard. Do you know what I did wrong or how to soften it? Also, can I get it wet and wash it again to get some of the egg yolk out of the hair?
Mine is hard now. I’m using a pumice stone on it and it’s eating up the stone. Did you figure anything out?
If the wool is still dirty can I put it in the wash after I put the egg yolks and dried it?
hi
aluminium sulfate, salt how many grams please?
Which liquid u use with egg yolks for tan ?
Hello dear, Can you send a video clip of the process of making the fur of the lamb, but details with the translation?
Does this method work on different types of hide
Why does the skin tear after a period of one or two months of tanning?
hi this is coming from someone working with their first sheep hide what would you say is your ratio of alum to salt?? the person who gave me the hide wants it to turn out really nice so they can use it so i would really appreciate the help
Did you get a reply?
@@SeekerofEndurancenope
Hey, Really interesting tutorial! Just wanted to ask what type of salt you used alongside the alum? Can I just use ordinary table salt for this?
Hi, that's exactly what I did.
normal salt, non iodized salt.
What are the measurements for Salt and Alum when tanning. And the measurements for egg wash.. thank you
Can you use that to make a shearling jacket?
Could you add another step of smoking the hide, so it can get wet without becoming stiff?
What's in the measuring cup that you pore in with the eggs
SO. MUCH. WORK.
I live on a small sheep farm where they process the animals for meat only and toss the skins, which seems wasteful. I've wanted to try tanning the free skins, but every tanning video I've watched convinces me that I'm much better off going to my carpentry job, earning money, and buying tanned hides.
People wouldn't be doing it as a job if it didn't include work
I've currently got 3 sheepskin and 2 goat skins in the pickle using this technique. Thank you for this wonderful simple walk through. Hopefully in a life bit of time I'll have some lovely soft hides.
Can u share pictures of the results.. it would be amazing to see such successful experiments
would like to see the results
Can you use veg oil to lubricate?
great video thanks for the info
i have a question ... i have a cowhide and i left it with salt and water to dry out and it went solid as i left it for week ( big mistake ) after i tried to soften it by fleshing off the skin ..it still very solid what would you advise ?
Ashley Trills
resoak in plain water....
So beautiful... ❤
Lots of hard work. But nice end result.
I've been following this process but noticed the hairs are just coming out in chunks at the slightest pull. Anyone know what's wrong?
What is about the lubricant ?
we noticed a foul smell after taking our sheepskins out of the salt alum solution. we are now at the egg drying stage and there is still a fairly foul smell. Will this go away after the stretch and boarding and sanding?....or have we somehow ruined our hides?
I just tanned my first sheepskins, which turned out perfect, but nothing like this. They did not smell at all, because I fleshed them properly, and washed them thoroughly before I started the pickling process.
Leaving all the membranes on like this, it is going to rot and stink. It is going to be discoloured like these are. It is not going to absorb the oil into the hide. It is not going to stretch out properly.
My skins are beautiful smooth, flat, creamy-white and smell great.
هذا جميل جدا ان امكنكم ارجو وضع شريط باللغة العربيه عن المواد المستخدمه في التنظيف
Thanx alot
What is the amount of alum and salt used
I wish I had seen this video before I have destroyed two sheep skins trying to make them clean. Every time I was unable to make the skin soft.it remained stiff
How do i tan bull hide?
Thank you for this amazing video, i did everything exactly as you did, bit wheni finished the tanning with alum process and i started drainng the hide for drying, i noticed hair is falling and i had some empty spots on the wool side and still some hair is "easily" falling of not from all sides but some sides , why is that?
I'm sorry about that. It could be one of these reasons.
1. evaporating - Fresh or wet hide must breathe.
2. alkaline environment - Hides have to be acidic. Dont use detergent for a long time and be sure to rinse it out properly.
3. sick or molting animal
If the hair is falling out scrape all of it off and make buckskin out of it. (Leather ) ... same process just more stretching as it dries...
Does it stopped after dried???
What is the ratio of the amount of salt and alum?
Which liquid you used with eggs
Im gaon use a power washer for removeing the membrane wish me luck
Please what you put on the skin at 4:30
Salut, svp dit moi combien de temps en peu laisser la peau fraîche salée avec le sel dans la première étape svp répond moi ç urgent merci
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What's the salt, alum, water ratio?
Is there any substitute for alum ?
If not is there anothey way to make a sheepskin for everyday use in the house
There are many alternatives, but the procedure is different. The traditional way of tanning hides is to use tannins from tree bark.
what is alum?
Thanks for the great video!
Can you tell me the exact number of things i need to do?! (like how many times to stir in a day when it is in the barrel! Or how much grams of salt or alum?!)
Stir once or twice a day, use 1 cup alum and 1 cup salt. You can always check for recipes on the internet look up recipe hide pickeling
According to @CheckboxChallenges , 1 sheepskin = 400g of salt, 200g of alum and 50 liters of water
What is the ratio of salt and alum..plz mentioned thanks
Niraj Bk
4oz of alum and 1lb of salt
But I’m unsure of the water
With rough approximation its about 30 litre
According to @CheckboxChallenges , 1 sheepskin = 400g of salt, 200g of alum and 50 liters of water
What proportions did you use? Ive tried this method before and had a bunch of hair slippage
According to @CheckboxChallenges , 1 sheepskin = 400g of salt, 200g of alum and 50 liters of water
Please can you specify how much salt and alum you used to tan and roughly how much water? :) this is a great video
Chantelle Räven
It’s 4oz of alum and 1lb if salt but I don’t know how much water.
catwithoutthe hat
Nice! I’m pretty sure. I guess until the water is cloudy from the salt and alum but not white. Also not too clear to where it like regular water.
According to @CheckboxChallenges , 1 sheepskin = 400g of salt, 200g of alum and 50 liters of water
@@52blue7 please what have he mixed with eggs please?? Thank you
بارك الله فيك 👍👍
Are you supposed to remove the leather? Is that what the sandpaper is for?
After washing mine with detergent, the learher started to dissolve.
Might it be fat which dissolved?
How it turned out to?
@@sohailahoj755 It turned out alright. I managed to sand down the now hardened leather, and got the same results as in the video. However, there were some parts that just wouldn't manage, and they are still a bit stiff. The transistion to the places where it had dissolved are okay. This is my first skin though, so I'm still pretty fresh with this
@@ToaGatanuva please share some pictures of the results.. I'm very much interested to do this experiment after hearing your success
ايش المواد الذي سوها
مااعرف اقرا انجليزي
Should i wash the skin after using egg yoke or not?and what is alum ?plz reply i mean what was the solution for tanning?0
@@abyss3741Instead of egg, could brain be used instead?
في زمن كورونا نورمالوما ما نرموش هيدورة فعلا حاجة نقية و زينة و تدخل ضمن تقاليد العرب
Very good
good work I want to do this.
what is quantity of alum and salt?
and you how to make cow hide with hairs?
normal salt, non iodized salt.
get an ordinary alum.
According to @CheckboxChallenges , 1 sheepskin = 400g of salt, 200g of alum and 50 liters of water
How much water did you put in? And also amount of alum and salt?.
I also saw many ppl using washing soda in solution
Water enough to keep the hide completely under water. The ratio of salt to alum is 2/1. The total amount for one sheepskin is approximately the content of a pepsi can. I've never tried soda. Good luck ;)
What's the salt / alum mix? How much of each, and what quantity of water
According to @CheckboxChallenges , 1 sheepskin = 400g of salt, 200g of alum and 50 liters of water
I have 13 goat hides that I fleshed and dried. They just aren't soft. Is it possible to soak again to soften and stretch? Or am I SOL?
Great video ,btw!
I have the same experience with goats. Maybe is better to stretch it onto a frame. You can soak and dry how many times you want but dont forget to lubricate again.
thanks! I will try it out.
I would salt them next time instead of drying them. Then they are preserved for as long as you want.
LapinBrun k
What is that brush?
hi Mr thanks to this video i want to know what is the lubricate?????
Egg
@@mayshade3283 why he make lubricate with eggs?
How many eggs did u use
I made 4skin just like yours. Thanks ...
Hi thank you it's really good job. Could you please tell me what's the secret of being the skin soft and mushy like this ??
The secret to a soft skin is just stretching the skin when it is just about dry. The more you pull and stretch any hide the softer it becomes. ..
Please tell me what is the lubricate i mean name or someone less.Please please tell me i try to tanning
Its eggs and water.
what type of brush are u using?
spent what seen like an eternity with a comb a had laying around.
Cristian Hernandez looks like he's using a carding brush. It is used when preparing wool to be spun into thread/yarn. Not a comb anyone has for their own hair.
Right
Actually a fleshing beam and an old dull draw knife work way better.
Ya, especially if you've worked in the fur trade like I have...lol. I always keep my draw knives razor sharp though... just work the hide gently and you won't cut holes, keeping it tight is key
i've had success with a pressure washer - pretty slick.
can you use this method for any animal hide or just sheepskin?
Dea Fran any
The wool is coming out just by pulling lightly after soaked into alum and salt.
Is it going to stop after drying??
You probably soaked it too long. It will cause the hair to slip. If that happens then you can just make buckskin
@@Rastarunt
Thanks
The fall of the wave causes an alkaline environment. Do not soak the hide in soap for too long. After washing rinse it thoroughly in clean water. Another reason is steaming. Fresh warm skin must cool down before wrapping.
@@CheckboxChallenges
Thanks
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can you bleach cow leatherbefore tanning or will the leather be ruined
I don't know sorry
Great video, only problem I have is I don’t have a sheep to slaughter
looks awesome. where did you get your sale and alum from please?
You can use ordinary kitchen salt. Alum in loose form is available in some drugstores.
It can also be purchased from taxidermy supply companies. ..
@@CheckboxChallenges why use eggs?
is it possible to skip the alum process and simply tan and lubricate with eggs and soap?
Nope, tanning with something (alum, brain, fat, tannins, ...) is the most important step. Otherwise the skin will rot.
Hi, fantastic video.
If it's made with brains, the process is the same? Because to me 1 week with brains inside a close container will probably rot the hide.
Thanks
Hi, thanks. It's quite different. You can find some instruction videos on UA-cam.
@@CheckboxChallenges there are some videos on internet claiming that they are tanning with salt and eggs, which doesnt sound correct.
what lubricat type did u used ?
When u make the solution of salt and Alum what is the proportion in water ?
Salt ( ? ) kg/litre
Alum( ? ) kg/litre
According to @CheckboxChallenges , 1 sheepskin = 400g of salt, 200g of alum and 50 liters of water
@@sharafatkhan8219 thank you so much