I pulled up to my house a couple of years ago and there was a bag with two huge canebrake rattlesnake skins in it. They had been collected by no telling who and had been around awhile. Both were salted or boraxed, I didn't taste it to see which. They looked old but I decided to soak one and see what I had, the first thing I found was they hadn't been fleshed. I tacked one to a board and proceeded to flesh it with a tablespoon, there was a lot of flesh on the skin. After fleshing I left it on the board and let it dry, it looked really good.
I was teaching my nephew how to make bows so suggested we back his new hickory bow with the skin I had just prepared. We split the skin down the middle and used the side patterns on each limb, it came out great!
The skin I am putting up on the auction is a twin to the one I used on my nephew's bow, it is 58" long, 7" wide at the widest point counting the belly scales, 5" wide without them. It has been salted or boraxed, this can be rinsed off under warm running water in about 15 minutes. Like mentioned previously the skin hasn't been fleshed, this will need to be done before it is glued to a bow. Before being fleshed and dried the skin looks old but having used one on bow I found it works just fine and is quite striking(no pun intended)on a bow. The skin is thick, almost like rawhide.
The first picture is of my nephew and his newly snaked bow.
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Topic: Giant Canebreak Rattlesnake Skin -2 (Read 1504 times)
