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[Canuck]

Hi Everyone, here's a Rattlesnake skin made into a Sketch Artist Pencil

[Johan Heyns]

Hi John, Nice pen for the not so faint hearted.  Is it artificial or real?  I thought rattlers get a bit bigger than that.

[Bernhard Schweitzer]

hi John

Is it correct that, if you press the top of the pen the poisonous teeth will come out on the other end of the pen??

regards
Bernhard

[Canuck]

Johan, that is in fact the 'real deal', that particular blank is special because they have to be made specifically for a particular 'kit', and I've never seen any other in that type of pencil, I got it from a guy of the penboards.  It's made by gluing a 'shed' snake skin blank to a painted brass tube, then the entire tube is encapsulated in clear resin, it's an expensive process and not many people make them for that reason
Hey I like the idea of the 'fangs' coming out once you press the top   Maybe Robert will incorporate that idea into a puzzlebox someday

[Robert Yarger]

I like the idea.  Solve the puzzle to get the anti-venom before the posion kills you.  A nice twist to a puzzlebox design.

[Canuck]

Yeah and people would 'die' to get the solution!