snake skins

[Robert Honaker]

How do you back a bow with snake skin?
Do you salt it then glue it?
What kind of glue do you use?
Any help appreciated.
Thanks

[fatman]

there's a thread in the "How-To" section, the whole process is explained...

[Robert Honaker]

Sorry, I didn't think to look there.

[Robert Honaker]

I read the tutorial and still don't know how to prepare the skin.
Any help?

[Dano]

Dring the skin is the easiest part. Just staple or tack the skin to a board and let it dry for a day, trim off the belly skin, roll it up and store it in a ziplock bag.

Sorry I forgot, no salt, nothing, no need to tan the skin.

[Eric Krewson]

After you tack the skin down you will need to flesh it while it is still wet. On smaller snakes like copperheads fleshing is not necessary but a big rattler will have a good bit of flesh on the sides but not the back.

Use a teaspoon to scrape the flesh off until you see nothing but white skin.

[Adam Keiper]

Skin, staple, flesh, and dry as above.  And try to freak out when an hours-old dead snake tries to coil itself around your arm as you begin to skin it.