Snake Skin De-Scaling

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B Wo

B Wo

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Does anyone have any tips or tricks they can offer as to the best way to take the scales off of a snake skin?

So far, by process of elimination, I've determined that individually-w/-an-Xacto-knife and w/-painter's-tape are not good ways.



 
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I just use the blade on a scissor and scrap first against the scales and then with the scales. They peel off pretty well that way. I don't want to hijack your thread, but my biggest challenge is getting the acrylic to adhere to the skin when I pour the blank so that the blank does not turn cloudy when I turn it. I think these may go hand in hand.
 
Use an air hose and blow them off. When i am tanning my snakeskins, i spray them off with the water hose before the tanning is complete and that way there is far less to worry about when trying to glue up the skins. \

Larry, i would bet that there could be several factors with your issue, and one of them could be the method in which the skins were tanned and also what your process was to apply them to the tube
 
With the skin flat on a table you should be able to wipe off most of them with a cloth.

Here's a trick I used for stubborn ones a soft eraser you can use a big one or just use a pencil and do one at a time works great.

Be sure to wipe (I wipe with DNA) and blow it off when done you don't want a stray scale floating around there.

Good luck....
 
Thank you for all of the suggestions. I'll give them a try. Hopefully, I will have some sweet pens to showcase for it.
 
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