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CarlScroggins
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« on: July 30, 2010, 01:05:56 AM »
Aubrey sent me a sample of his back skin tan (Thanks Aubrey!  Smiley ) and I just tried it on a red rat snake (corn snake) my son and I picked up that was freshly killed on the side of the road. Let me tell you this stuff did the job. It has been years since I have done any tanning and what I used back then was chrome tanning chemicals I got from a business that now history. Aubrey's Back Skin Tan is so much better than that stuff it don't even compare. In the past I have ripped snake skins trying to break them. This stuff make breaking a breeze. I salted overnight, then into a citric acid pickle at around 1.5 PH for 24hrs, neutralize to about 4.5 on the skin. I painted on a thin coat of the Back Skin Tan and let it set overnight to soak in and the next day as it dried I just gave it a little stretch or two everwhere I could see the skin drying and turning dark (this was about 1 minute of work about 4 or 5 times during the day) and that was it! It took longer to descale the thing than it did to break. I had almost no lost of color, and it has the same look, feel and quality of snakeskins that I have bought from professional leather companies. Here are some pics:




Now, I going to try it on a opossum hide that I used Sure Cure on as an experiment to see how well it will do for a re-tan. I will have in the pickle tomorrow.
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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2010, 09:45:54 AM »
Does he sell the stuff?

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« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2010, 10:05:30 AM »
when will he sell smaller quantities?
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« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2010, 11:19:26 AM »
August 16th smaller amounts become available, his  phone # is 919-269-2254.
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CarlScroggins
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« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2010, 09:32:43 PM »
Quote from: gunner62 on July 30, 2010, 11:19:26 AM
August 16th smaller amounts become available, his  phone # is 919-269-2254.
That's great news! Me being a small time guy I was wondering how I would be able to afford to get it myself, but if it works out for deer hides as well as it did on the snake, I may be doing a lot more tanning.
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