Snake Skin

Preserving a snake skin .....   split the skin.  rub gently Borax on inside skin.  Pin it down scales up on a long piece of cardboard.  Dry slowly in a dark cool spot (60 to 70 F).  Should be done in 3 days.  Then you can mount it.    This is not a tanned snake skin.   It will be stiff.   Have fun Ken.   We are 2 1/2 km from the line cabin.  Should have trail opened up to that cabin by next week.  We go work on it every third day.
Oh Yeah.....almost forgot to ask ..... was it a Republican or Democrat snake?????  You will have to be more liberal in the application of Borax on the Democrat and if it was a Republican tack the skin on the board face down using large nails.  And you can be thankful you didn't catch it north of the border because I don't know the solution to these ones.