First Rattlesnake

[rtjw]

First Rattlesnake I did with my own castings. I am getting my camera down and photo set up.

 

[pastorbill1952]

Looking good.

 

[coach]

Very nice Johnny!!!!

 

[Rifleman1776]

Very outstanding work. Question [?] How thick is the resin before reaching the actual snakeskin?

 

[rtjw]

Frank, I was amazed at how thin I could get it. I dont know exact measurements but it is pretty thin

 

[alamocdc]

Nice looking Jr you got there, Johnny!

 

[JimGo]

That looks great Johnny! Nice job!

 

[Monty]

Great looking pen Johnny.

 

[Bev Polmanteer]

Johnny, The pen is beautiful but I can't see the natural design of the diamonds if it is a diamondback. What type of snake is it? If diamondback it looks like you did not clean the scales off the dried skin. I'm just curious[]

 

[rtjw]

Bev, the scales are cleaned off. It is a diamondback. If you look you can see the diamonds on the pen. There are two on the bottom barrel and about one and a half on the top barrel.

The guy that got the skins has done this many many many times so i trust what he is doing.

 

[Efletche]

It looks like the entire blank was submerged in the resin. How did you keep the resin out of the brass tubes? Just curious. By the way, nice looking pen.

 

[rtjw]

You put wax in the ends of the tubes to prevent resin from getting in them.

 

[Bev Polmanteer]

Thanks Johnny, I can see them now. He must have a really big snake according to the size of the diamonds. You did a great job on it.

 

[dscott]

great job i am wanting to try some of these how did you suspend the blanks in the resin