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Offline Button Nubbs

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tanning fish skins?
« on: February 21, 2013, 03:03:25 PM »
So I'm building a custom fishing rod with tanned rattle snake skin inlays (turning out really awesome and I will post pics in the fishing forum when completed) and it got me wondering. Is there anyway to tan a fish skin and have it keep its color, keep the scales from falling out, and keep it from getting brittle like a snake skin? I think it would look pretty awesome used the same way as the snake skin I'm using.

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Re: tanning fish skins?
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2013, 03:19:52 PM »
You'd want to put a good amount of clearcoat over it but I imagine that it's possible...

** Carp skin!! That would be sweet, BIG scales!!
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Re: tanning fish skins?
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2013, 03:32:24 PM »
The smaller the scales the better it looks, I think carp scales would be too big. If I could get a leathery type fish skin is just need to put a couple coats of color preserver on it then the standard 2 or 3 coats of finish.
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Re: tanning fish skins?
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2013, 08:18:49 AM »
I've seen sturgeon done before. Belts and wallets.

 


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