Jon-wx5nco
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I have seen Snake Skin casting blanks and all sorts of other skins and feathers. Has anyone cast fish scales? I know this sounds odd, but I had a request for a Sierra made with Fish Scales.....
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aweiss44
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guys have done fish skin before. mesquite man did a few real nice ones. the problem is you have to have fish with small scales apparently.
Jgrden
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Sure, just learn how to fillet a minnow and you are are half way done.
Yup
Yea, them big ole Susquehanna River carp with scales the size of a nickel migh overload you.
Yea, them big ole Susquehanna River carp with scales the size of a nickel migh overload you.
Small enough
And, catch a minnow....you sure wouldn' want to buy them at petstore prices.
robutacion
Member
Well... actually, here in Australia up in the Northern Territory, they produce/process Barramundi (fish) skin as the US does with snake skin. From shoes to handbags, and many other items...!
I was in one of those tanneries many years ago, looking for crocodile tanned skin which they do by the hundreds (from crocodile farms), when I discover that they would/were also tanning Barramundi skins. The processes are very slow and not the most pleasant thing to do or watch but the final results are just spectacular.
If I was closer I could try to get some of that skin out of the tannery for you, I don't don't and I would find it near impossible to find anyone selling just the tanned skin as its value is very high, particularly when the hight end shoe industry claims most of what is produced...!
I may be wrong, and is possible since I was up north (11 years ago) that the tanning industry has developed a higher scale and distribution production, a Google search on Barramundi skin should produce some results...!
PS: A pen made out of that stuff would worth a bit...!:wink:
Cheers
George
I was in one of those tanneries many years ago, looking for crocodile tanned skin which they do by the hundreds (from crocodile farms), when I discover that they would/were also tanning Barramundi skins. The processes are very slow and not the most pleasant thing to do or watch but the final results are just spectacular.
If I was closer I could try to get some of that skin out of the tannery for you, I don't don't and I would find it near impossible to find anyone selling just the tanned skin as its value is very high, particularly when the hight end shoe industry claims most of what is produced...!
I may be wrong, and is possible since I was up north (11 years ago) that the tanning industry has developed a higher scale and distribution production, a Google search on Barramundi skin should produce some results...!
PS: A pen made out of that stuff would worth a bit...!:wink:
Cheers
George
bruce119
Member
catfish is a good skin also trout would be another. I haven't done it came close I was going to use a catfish. They are two species with little (trout) to no (catfish) scales.
Good luck
so many ideas so little time
Good luck
so many ideas so little time
ribanett
Member
From the size of the scales in these pictures, BIG FISH.
http://www.univenter.com/exotic-leather_fish.html
Here is a company in Canada that tans fish skin, a little on the pricey side. I might just give it a try
http://www.sealeatherwear.com/factory-seconds-c-29.html
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MesquiteMan
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MesquiteMan
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Oh yeah, tried catfish skin but it was very boring and nondescript. Also tried Plecostomus belly skin but it did not work out very well.
What the heck is a plecostomus?
THIS is a plecostomus. This is actually a bowfishing world record size pleco. All I have to do is send in the paperwork! It beast the current record by 2 #!
Pleco's are the algae eaters you find in aquariums. Folks dump them in the rivers and around here, they reproduce and wreck havoc on our lakes. They have no natural predators once they get a little bigger and bowfishermen are the only real means of control.
What the heck is a plecostomus?
THIS is a plecostomus. This is actually a bowfishing world record size pleco. All I have to do is send in the paperwork! It beast the current record by 2 #!
Pleco's are the algae eaters you find in aquariums. Folks dump them in the rivers and around here, they reproduce and wreck havoc on our lakes. They have no natural predators once they get a little bigger and bowfishermen are the only real means of control.
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Kev
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I actually purchased two from this place earlier this year...
http://www.mermaidleather.com.au/
Kept one for myself and sent one to gofer.... Also managed to pick up a couple of pieces of leather for myself to try and make a pen from, unlike others who attempt to cast it in reisin, all thest guys do is get some craft glue, and roll the leather onto the tube..
There is a nack to doing this, and I was given a demonstration.. but I think I will be taking my time before I attempt one
Kev
johncrane
Member
Curtis!
That's got some nasty barb's on it if iam seeing right.
That's got some nasty barb's on it if iam seeing right.
bruce119
Member
Curtis Nice Pleco. I would see a bunch of them here in Florida when SCUBA diving the Peace River for fossils I am also a fossil/rock hound and got a house full of sharks teeth.
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LEAP
Member
Damn Curtis You must be from Texas you got Running Lights on your hat!
el_d
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AceMrFixIt
Member
WalMart sells Goldfish I think.....
OKLAHOMAN
Member
http://www.glimmerznmore.com/shop/
They are back.......they at one time had fish blanks,I checed and see that in the baron they have a dyed samon.
They are back.......they at one time had fish blanks,I checed and see that in the baron they have a dyed samon.