hey guys Mike from boyer bows here I just watched the last video I tried to do on how to skin a snake and as a pretty poor video guys I'm sorry about that figures that you know when you've been waiting for a phone call all day long and they say they'll call no later than a certain time of course they'll call you right when you're trying to make a video 15 minutes after the fact but in any case I hope you got the gist of it this here is the skin that I did the the red tail boa constrictor and what you see this is a loose kindom as I was saying got a little happy with the terminology I was watching uh just watched Anthony Bourdain I don't where he was but they were making frog plugs skin and the frog's leg they say just hold onto the skin take his pants off which is where I got that term from but anyway this is the snake you saw I just once you get it started if you get it started properly you just slide this little exacto knife I like a rounded blade just get it under those ribs and under that vertebrae grab the vertebrae and just peel the skin away and if you do a good job you don't have to the amount of fleshing you'll have to do is minimal I could have done a little bit more flesh flesh in here apparently but basically this is what you get and what's gonna happen now is I just stretched and pinned it there are a lot of ways to do this this is the cheapest easiest way and given that they're so small I just used a tube oh here's the skin I could salvage from the what I believe was a baby Burmese python it stretched out pretty nicely as well but there's just not much of it but I never waste him as good practice if nothing else and anyway I just it's a scale side down so this is the inner side where all the organs and flesh and all the good stuff or not-so-good stuff would be the outside is the pretty scaly part I'll put that down I stretch it pin it now a good way to do this if you see the problem it's flush with the cardboard if you do use nails you can nail it down and then raise the skin off about half way up a nail so that the airflow gets under it and above it and it'll dry out a lot faster this would be a really good idea if you live somewhere where it's maybe a little more humid I live in the desert so this stuff will be drew it you know even indoors this skin will be dry and about well by morning without fail if it was the middle of the day I could actually I couldn't even put them outside they'd probably cook I know it's September but it's still up in the high 90s here so I wouldn't risk it but if I left them out at night I can come back in the morning if the bugs don't eat it then and they usually don't but I could come back and this thing would be perfectly dry this is how I air dry them and I like skins that are air dried best for backing Bowl limbs the reason is a lot of ways that they tan snake skins doesn't always go very well with the glue you're going to use for a lot of people tan with denatured alcohol and glycerin and the I find the glycerin can cause problems the skins get a little rubbery and they don't stick well but air dry you know it just the I think you give yourself the best chance of success anyway that's it maybe I'll do a quick video with these things when I take them off and dried but otherwise that's all there is to it no special chemicals no special techniques just stretch them down put them down the largest the snake you have a longer the piece of cardboard you need and that's it any questions leave comment leave in the comment section but this was pretty self-explanatory and I will make another video of me skinning a snake when I get another snake so hopefully that will happen soon and we'll see you guys later thanks for watching