If not using them instantly, you can either roll or hang them, but ‘Pressing’ may need to be followed before using it again. Rattler—- make for sure your cleaning ALL THE MEAT off up to the rattles or it will rot! As it softens you may want to tack it out with push pins to keep its shape ( on cardboard or soft wood).

A friend thought that it was because I didn’t change out the glycerin and alcohol each day, or at least after the second day. **In this How-To, I ll go over the process of tanning a snake skin as well as how to process and skin a already dead snake ( Yes, do please make sure your snake is dead before proceeding. Remove all fat and flesh from the inside of the snakeskin by scraping in the direction of the scales with a very sharp knife.

I wouldn’t recommend going as dull as a butter knife, but a razor sharp implement won’t do either. Check it out!

We simply dry out the removed rattlers.

Sprinkle a generous layer of salt (without iodine in it) over the whole skin. I kept the jar in the closet (away from light and curious cats) for 2 1/2 days, stirring the contents once or twice a day. Pull it out the next day and the meat will have firmed making it much easier to flesh.

Hi. Asked him if I could keep it as I was curious about how it would taste. I rinse and repeat until I no longer get soap bubbles in the rinse water when I wring the skin . Tack the skin, scale-side out, to a plywood scrap slightly larger than the snakeskin, using upholstery tacks and a tack hammer. However, it is best to dry it overnight.

I will be watching this one. Tanning Snakeskin If you have to kill a snake for any reason, you might as well preserve its skin into something soft and beautiful. After this final step, and when you take out the skin, some of the scales may fall off. Work fast and keepntje hide as cool as possible.

I want to know if I should remove it’s reg. If you were mounting and pinning down a skin on a price of wood, what size wood would you choose? In a desert, drying will be completed just in an hour. While doing so, stretch the snake out with the other hand. The first step to tanning a ratlesnake is to cut off the head. After lunch I went over to another buddies house who I had seen tanning various hides. Do let us know what you are planning to make with your rattlesnake skin!​.

Sorry, this is really hard to explain not being there to show you.

This is what my brother did in his teenage years. Aside from the pieces that had been pierced an arrow, I took the skin off the rattlesnake in a way that maintained its tubular shape (like a sock). I ended up used a small knife from my kitchen that has seen sharper days. Don’t worry about the weight as plywood sheet will evenly distribute it. And this guide will exactly teach you how to tan a rattlesnake skin! When you are ready, you can take the preserved skin out from the freezer and defrost the skin by putting the ziplock bag in a pool of cold water. Hope that helps! I just put the skin in the solution and will give it a couple days and try the WD40 finish Cheers Johno. So, finally when you are set to tan, you need some preparations beforehand to do the process in a perfect way. but when dealing with a flexible project like a wallet or hatband its best to not use salt.

To thaw, I placed the bag in a bowl of water and placed that bowl in the fridge. I found the fine fleshing to be tedious, but I think scraping belly to belly was more effective than trying to scrape head to tail. The method I use leaves the skin feeling real to the touch and it s flexible just like the real thing.

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Flesh it immediately after thawing. 1) I cut the skin from the anus to the neck, then split down to the top of rattles, then peal the skin off gently, keeping rattles attacked to skin. The Material List. Be SURE you wheel is turning away from the edge of the hide NOT into the center of the hide OR it will wrap around the hide destroying it and possibly your hand, eye etc. The next day when you’re satisfied enough with the soaking, remove the extra solution by simply patting it dry with a rag.

Just paint the skin side (not scale side) with the afore mentioned alcohol/ glycerin solution. Free the uppermost end of the skin from the fleshy membrane and then gently pull down on the skin.

it can be dried at this point and oil rubbed with neatsfoot oil or any other natural oil. 363.

Then you will have to see it up using invisible thread (from any sewing store) and super glue after sewing it shut.

Bathroom or a silver plated bowl, every single article will get liven up with its use.

Danny, "You will know a tree by the fruit it bears" God, " You can't stop the waves .... but, you can learn to surf. If you lost the original scales (as many do) there is no way to recover that dark original look. Rattlesnake skin just placed in tanning solution Rattlesnake skin after 2 1/2 days in the tanning solution The final steps involve removing the snake from the solution and rinsing it again with water, removing any additional membrane that you couldn’t get in the first round of fleshing, and rubbing the flesh side with a little more glycerin. Pin out the snakeskin on a board, flesh side up. All these issues everyone is having is due to letting the skins get warm and bacteria starts to work on it. Remove the flesh as you go.

Larger snakes take more tanning.

Dissolve 1 lb. So, what should you do here? They will eventually fall off, sometimes retaining the scales for several years depending on the wear in the articles usage. (by weight) or 2/3 a cup of TASCO/RITTEL’S Kwik-Tan (KT-10), per 1 lb. In the end if it’s a rare hide hide pro to do it for you, it’s worth it.

Thumbtacks, plastic works well than a metal build. It will come in handy!

be sure to cut slowly and very straight! Double the amount in the tail region. the woolite wash is the actual tanning process that kills the bacteria and micro organisms. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. AdventureFootstep.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The Southern Pacific Rattlesnakes (Crotalus oreganus helleri) that we got were very dark in color with a gorgeous diamond pattern.

If you can’t get to it immediately, make sure the carcass is in the shade.

This made for a very clean dry hide, but as years have gone by, now the skins are very very dry. I am at the scaling stage… I feel like I need to protect it with something.

Drying: Put and spread some salt all over the skin to ensure no moisture is present.

Did you condition/seal the scale side with anything? Just a normal bathroom decoration… don’t mind that. This process is called salting. This part took me only about 20 minutes. The first step in the tanning process is fleshing. Rattlesnakes may bite on reflex for up to 30 minutes after they die.