Offering Tanned Fish Skins, picture inside

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thknives

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Have a look at my page at http://members.home.net/thknives/Fishskins.htm for a sample of tanned fish skins avalible. I have been using them for 1 year know and it is a great way to finish a sheath, or a folder pouch.

The following picture is salmon skin, looks like snake, doesn't it?
SalmonGDBRGL.jpg


Thomas

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CarpORGL.jpg

Those are really something different. Do you cover the leather sheath with the skins? How thick are they?
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I have used them and they are great for neck knives, glue on the skin trim and Japanese cord wrap. great price,look cool. and work well.
Cheers, Wally hayes
 
TJ, I usually use them for overlay, like you would with snake skin. Easy to work with in general. The skins are tough, especially the sturgeon. By itself you can use them for folder pouches.

Wally great to have you on board, do you have a picture of the sheath you made?

Robert, good looking sheath.

Tom, no Baramundi. What fish is this anyway?

Sizes are rough measurements, all the skins taper and the measurements
are taken from full length and just above the middle of the full width.
Salmon: 23" long x 5" wide, thickness .8 mm - 1.3 mm
Carp: 18" long x 4" wide, thickness 1 mm - 1.5 mm
Perch: 18" long x 6" wide, thickness 1.5 - 2.2 mm
Sturgeon: 32" long x 4 1/2 " wide, thickness 1 - 2 mm

Greeting,

Thomas

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Would you be interested in posting the process for tanning fish hides. I use to get large paddlefish and their hides are extremely tough. I haven't even found a taxidermists that knew how to tan. All they know how to do is keep it from rotting and preserve it.
I would love to know the process or where to buy the book on how to do it. Any help on this would be appreciated.

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Ray Kirk
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Hi Ray; been kinda wondering the same thing, I think smaller gar skins would look good on primitive style bowie and camp knives. The large ones are kinda rough looking. If you get some good info let me know. Will you be at Mesquite? Hammer-In?
 
I bought a couple of salmon skins off Thomas. One black and the other a beautiful medium brown with a slight orange tinge (similar to Fiebings English Tan). Both skins have perfect markings and are very consistently dyed. They have a slight gloss to them, similar to eel. IMHO, either inlaid or as a full lamination, they'll make one sweet-looking sheath.

Regards,

Hugh
aka;totallytactical

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Hey Thomas...

Those Fish skins look Very nice..

I had the pleasure of handling one at the CKG show in Toronto and they are actually pretty thick skins...

The Carp and Salmon are my favorite..
I think the one I handled was Carp...
Very interesting indeed...

ttyle Eric....

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Mike, I will be at the Mesquite show on Sat. to give a forging demo and I'm bringing a camp knife to the hammer-in. I can't get off Thur. and Fri. to go to Mesquite.

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The Mesquite show is the last week-end in September and the hammer-in is at Washington, Ark. on the last week-end in October (I think).

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Thanks Ray...I guess
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I was getting excited, thinking that MAYBE there would be a decent knifeshow coming up here in the D/FW metroplex...such is life.

Jared

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