Clean osage stave for sturgeon skin...

[Cloudfeather]

Trying to get a decent size set of sturgeon skins. Preferably big enough to get two strips from each side. Have some clean osage staves a little over 6 feet in length.

[Tracker0721]

Sturgeon skins are worth a osage stave? I need to tell my dad to start saving em!

[Stringman]

The value comes from the prep work as well as the size. Catch em, clean em, dry em, offer em up for trade.

[Cloudfeather]

I'd say so. I've been wanting some for a while. It's easy enough for me to get carp or catfish skins where I'm at. Sturgeon, not so much. lol

[PEARL DRUMS]

There is a right way to dry and prep any skins, and a wrong way. The right way is easily worth a decent stave, the wrong way is worth a toss in the garbage can. Been there done that.

[Tracker0721]

Same as snake skin right? Not to hijack this, but just skin, tack to a board, leave out of the sun with some good air flow for a couple weeks.

[Fred Arnold]

And if you have an extra skin I'd offer the same. Not trying to hijack your thread Cloudfeather. I'm close to osage country and miles and miles from sturgeon water. About the only thing I'm liable to catch is carp, catfish, bullheads, or a cold.

[wizardgoat]

Fish skins really need to be scraped well, especially the thicker ones like sturgeon. And especially for sturgeon the skins need to be tacked up so the pattern runs straight, and use lots of tacks. A good tack job is the difference between backing 1 or 2 bows, to 3 and maybe even 4 on a big pair.