I've tanned snakeskin, conger eel and wolffish using birch tar but I can't crack tanning things like salmon skin - birch tar makes it go like celophane. I've tried my own 'produce' for the Icelandic urine tanning method but mine just dissolves the skins, anyone had any better luck?
Before anyone points out that you are absolutely NOT allowed to kill snakes and tan them over there, the skin was from a 4 lined snake that someone killed years ago whilst grape picking - the locals told him it was deadly ( in actualy fact they're harmless ), he dried out the skin and left it gathering dust until I scrounged it. The skins really do look better on the snake but I'm not going to waste something like that.
Realgar
Before anyone points out that you are absolutely NOT allowed to kill snakes and tan them over there, the skin was from a 4 lined snake that someone killed years ago whilst grape picking - the locals told him it was deadly ( in actualy fact they're harmless ), he dried out the skin and left it gathering dust until I scrounged it. The skins really do look better on the snake but I'm not going to waste something like that.
Realgar