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Mo_coon-catcher:
That’s coming out great! I’m really liking the look your getting.

 I may need to try staining like that at some point myself. How has the durability seemed so far when you use the sheds? From what I’ve been playing with, large scaled ones like that are much more durable than small scales skins. Here’s one the then I’ve been messing with, it’s Atleast the most recent anyway. Though I didn’t do any of the stain work, just a little ink dye to bolden the pattern a bit. These are from a small ball python and t he pattern isn’t very bold on camera.

Kyle

Eric Krewson:
I made a snake skin backed bow out of three different non matching copperhead skins, I use leather dye and a fine brush to match the patterns on the spliced together skins. This was a matter of building up layers of diluted dye and feathering the colors with a fan brush.

There were no patterns on this section of faded skin. I drew them in to match the parts of the same skin that had a pattern showing. This was another "I wonder if I can pull this off' kind of thing. I matched all the skin with the same diluted leather dye.



Here is my first skin splice, it shows. I refined my splicing technique and made the second skin splice invisible.





   

superdav95:
Looks great to me.  I wouldn’t have know it was a shed! 

Eric Krewson:
I went back over the skin with more leather dye to cover up the white spots, the color is not anything like a rattlesnake now so I guess I will call it one of those dreaded copperheaded rattle moccasins.

It is actually nice looking in person. I have 3 coats of tru-oil on it now and will apply 3 or 4 more coats then put on the leather handle, letter in the specs and call it finished.

Will B:
That looks really nice Eric.

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