Skunk Fur Dress Sporran

[davidlpope]

I would like to try my hand at making my own sporran and belts someday. Leather, goat hair, maybe some rabbit skin sporrans would be nice.

Well, I live in Tennessee and we have a lot of skunks around these parts, for sure. Open season on the little varmin year around. I like the looks of the skunk fur sporrans that I've seen. Kinda high dollar too.

So what to you all think about them?

"Nice fur?"

Or,

"Hey Dude, you got a dead skunk in your lap."

Given the price, I'd go for a more traditional Highland fur: Otter, wildcat, badger, pine marten, etc.

[Highland Logan]

L&M Highland Outfitters have made full-mask skunk sporrans in the past, however, I don't think they are in their 2012 line of sporrans. I tend to think of their pelt as a lovely contrast of black white to go with Highland evening attire.

It's still there:

L&M Website

Frank

[piperdbh]

If you do decide to make one yourself, and you get to skinning the animal, and you see that little thing about the size of a shooter marble and the color of rotten beef, and you think to yourself, "Should I mash on it?", don't. Trust me.

[ShaunMaxwell]

I, too, am a fan of skunk sporrans. I commissioned Artificer to make mine after the successful elimination of a near Biblical plague of skunks we endured (some 15 or so...).

Here's mine:



And those Fergusson Britt skunk sporrans of Ryan's and McMurdo's are real beauties, if you haven't seen them.

With the right kit, a skunk sporran can be very striking, but I think for a full-mask sporran, I might go with something a bit more traditional.

SM

[McMurdo]

Here is my Fergusson Britt

[bdkilted]

Love the full mask skunk sporrans. Have had one on the Christmas wish list for a couple of years now. I finally found one at a vendor at the North Texas Irish Festival and showed it the wife. I got the distinct impression that the only way I was going to get one was to kill and skin it myself. She wasn't impressed.

[Ryan Ross]

...since everyone else is, I'll play along.

Pepe:

[SFCRick]

Here is my L&M full face


and the one I made for my youngest son

[AKScott]

Ya know, I have to concede they look good, like badger for evening wear; but I just can't get over skunk. Maybe from growing up out in the country...

[Mickey]

I love skunk pelts. Not skunky, just skunk.

When I was a kid, we had a skunk for a pet, and since then I always thought it was a beautiful fur. I love skunk sporrans. Very striking and elegant, yet somehow rather everyday in a way.