Pair of Copperheads

[Gary Max]

Yup the real deal------Copperheads
I am working on getting 6 of these guys made for our next show.
Kit is a Jr Gent

 

[mick]

Gary, those are REALLY NICE! I sell quite a few snakeskin pen of various styles and am always wishing there were more of a variety of skins out there.

 

[Jarheaded]

Copperheads really are a beautiful snake once you get around the biting thing. Great job on the pens. Are you doing your own tanning and the rest of the work?

 

[desertyellow]

Great Job!

 

[Gary Max]

Johnnie I started with the whole snake---yup I do the whole deal----It just takes time. I skinned the snakes 3 weeks ago.

 

[PaulDoug]

Very nice. They are a pretty snake as snakes go. What does a cottonmouth skin look like?

 

[LostintheWoods]

Shiny black scales.

 

[Sylvanite]

Nice pens Gary. They make me want to get back to the skins from the pair that tried to nest in my shop last summer.

Regards,
Eric

 

[toolcrazy]

Very nice.

 

[el_d]

Very Cool Gary,
How do you tan the hides? Homebrew? comercial product? Id love to get some copperheads and some Coral snake....still trying with rattle snake....

 

[Gary Max]

I don't think what I am doing is really called tanning---more in the order of dryed and streched. These skins are very thin----I use epoxy to glue them to the tubes---it makes them soft enough to form.

 

[bad]

Those are really nice pens. I want to get some snakeskin blanks and try them but at the moment my house is in the middle of renovations. I don't even think I can see my lathe anymore. Should be finished in a week or so. I'll have to buy the blanks though, not too many snakes up here in the Great White North.

 

[JayDevin]

Very Very Nice!!!

 

[Ozzy]

Great looking pens.

I have been thinking about making a Copperhead pen for myself to commemorate getting bit by one when I was four years old. That was 37 years ago but I remember it like it was yesterday.

 

[arjudy]

Those are very nice. I like the color of those skins better than rattle snake.