Another Copperhead

[peternap]

I need to start skinning them. I'll get rich. THis is the 6th one I've shot this year.

[muldoon]

didja put any of him in the chili 

[StinkerBell]

He would make for a nice handbag.

[peternap]

didja put any of him in the chili 

Nope. Copperheads taste too much like pork. I like that nice chicken taste of Rattlers!

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

do rattlers taste like chicken when chicken still tasted like chicken, or do they taste like that stuff you buy from the grocery store?

[peternap]

do rattlers taste like chicken when chicken still tasted like chicken, or do they taste like that stuff you buy from the grocery store?

Like real Chicken. The grocery store chicken tastes like plastic

[StinkerBell]

Make me a nice belt peternap!

[MountainDon]

Make me a nice belt peternap!

That raises the question 'how do you make a belt from snakeskin?'  Hardly thick enough by itself.  Glue/sew it over cowhide?

[StinkerBell]

I have no idea how to make the belt, I just know pretty....

[MountainDon]

Sometimes I'm too curious for my own good.

[muldoon]

That raises the question 'how do you make a belt from snakeskin?' 

To make a belt:
1. run tail through belt loops.
2. push tail in the mouth of the snake
3. use hooked teeth of snake to grab onto the tail.

ok, maybe not.  I found this set of directions online and it seems interesting.
http://www.essortment.com/hobbies/sewingsnakeskin_spgh.htm

[Redoverfarm]

Had a friend/co-worker that collected rattlesnakes(dead).  He would go out and find them or friends would bring them to him.  Stopped at his house one day and he had a large cooler full of dead rattlers.  I asked him what he was going to do with them and he said he was going to make some belts, rifle slings and hatbands.

About two weeks later I talked to him and he said he got deadly sick one day. I asked him what happened and he said he spent most of that day working on the snake skins.  He said he guessed that after working with them all day some of the toxic made it's way through the pores of his skin.  He said no wonder that when he finally got the last snake done in the cooler there was about 1/2-1" of liquid in the bottom of the cooler.  He guessed it was venion and other stuff that had bled out of the snakes.   I told him that's latex gloves are for more than getting your prostrates checked and he should invest in a box of disposalables.

[gandalfthegrey]

Make me a nice belt peternap!

That raises the question 'how do you make a belt from snakeskin?'  Hardly thick enough by itself.  Glue/sew it over cowhide?

Skin it. Scrape it. Stretch it, add salt.  Then put over leather.  Gorilla glew works well to hold it.

[gandalfthegrey]

Here is the link to pic.

http://picasaweb.google.com/gandalfthegrey1/MyPhotos/photo#5237116623283212338