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Title: Ideas fer me snake skin???
Post by: fireman_3311 on September 09, 2008, 12:10:26 am
I happened on to a dandy Prairie Rattler out in Wyoming the last week of august...but only came home with one....Any ideas what to use it on???  The wife doesn't think it'll work for a loincloth!!!!!  I got it stretched and scraped, and it's purty dry....Now what???!!!

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Title: Re: Ideas fer me snake skin???
Post by: david w. on September 09, 2008, 12:38:45 am
strap on your quiver?
Title: Re: Ideas fer me snake skin???
Post by: Pat B on September 09, 2008, 12:48:15 am
You could make yourself a belt, cover your quiver or add an accent to it, crest arrows or just wait til you get another and back your bow.     Pat
Title: Re: Ideas fer me snake skin???
Post by: madcrow on September 09, 2008, 06:59:14 am
Send it to me and I will show you how to use it on knife sheaths. ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Ideas fer me snake skin???
Post by: TRACY on September 09, 2008, 12:48:08 pm
Those prairie rattlers have a pretty pattern and look great on a narrow limbed osage bow.
Title: Re: Ideas fer me snake skin???
Post by: Justin Snyder on September 09, 2008, 05:35:24 pm
Maybe you should send it my way, Ill bet I have a match for it.   ;D You could use it to cover about 12 inches of each limb on a bow.  I have seen a few like that and they look pretty nice.  Justin
Title: Re: Ideas fer me snake skin???
Post by: fireman_3311 on September 10, 2008, 09:55:09 pm
I like the idea of covering a knife sheath....I have a dandy damascus bowie, that it'd work good on!!!!!  How do I do it???
Title: Re: Ideas fer me snake skin???
Post by: Pat B on September 11, 2008, 03:38:21 pm
I used contact cement....put cement on both pieces to be put together give it about 15 minutes and stick them together. Be ready because once stuck they are STUCK!!!
   Trace out your sheath on to the skin and cut it out first. Them go back and stitch it through the stitching holes in the sheath.  If you are making it from scratch, draw out your sheath and skin a bit bigger than wanted, glue them together and cut to shape. Them punch the stitching holes and stitch it together. After stitching trim the sheath and seal the edge. Bees wax works well for this.     Pat
Title: Re: Ideas fer me snake skin???
Post by: fireman_3311 on September 11, 2008, 08:40:01 pm
PatB...Thanks!!!