Making Snake Skin Blanks

[acmaclaren]

Besides turning pens I make self-bows as well. Some of them I've backed with snake skin. I was thinking of using the left over scrap to cast some pen blanks. I have some skin that has light cloth backing and some that is just straight skin. I've never tried to make a blank before. Any advice or links to YouTube videos would be much appreciated.

 

[thewishman]

http://content.penturners.org/library/pen_blanks/snakeskinblanks.pdf

Don (It'svirgil) has been making these for a long time.

 

[acmaclaren]

Thanks for the link. I'll be sure to read through all the instructions.