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Bone pile:
I've seen a few photos of carp and people saying they'll use the fish skins for various projects.I clean fish all the time,mostly salt water,whats the method of curing the skins for use?I imagine you'd scale and remove flesh..yum the good part.Any instuction on this would be great.
Thanx
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DanaM:
Only fish skins I processed was a big lake run brown trout, I started to scale it but the scales would barely come off and in the process
the skin lost most of its color >:( After that I scraped it as clean as I could and stapled it to a piece of plywood skin side down. Let it dry for a few days then cut it free.
I used a piece of it laminated on leather for a sheath, before gluing I sanded it a bit.

Timo has a skin along for grass carp in the How To section.

I guess if the scales come off easy scale it carefully, scrap it clean of flesh and fat, wash it with Dawn and staple it to a board to dry :)

mullet:
 Roger, If you get any shark or ray skin I'll trade you something for some.

Bone pile:
I don't usally keep ray's or shark but If there's a good reason I'll do it.I landed  a 4' ray a couple months back allmost took it home to eat,those littlle ones just don't have much meat.I was thinking more on the reds and snook skins,they are thick when you get one on the top of the slot.Right now it's snapper time for me nothing like a mangrove snapper .I'll tell my brother to give me a call when he scores ,he caught 3 black tips and a nice cobia sat.
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mullet:
 I love those Mangroves, too. The ray and shark skin is like mild sandpaper and make excellent hand wraps for bows. That's what the Japanese used on the handles of their swords.

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