If I was as good as you on a beam Beav, I might consider switching. It takes me 30-35 minutes to clean skin a blanket beaver where there isn't much touchup, unless he is scarred up. A nasty scarred up beaver takes longer, you need to be more careful around the scars. A few minutes longer than yours, but I would be considerably slower doing it the way you do. Of course I don't have near the experience you do either.
I've probably done close to a thousand beaver, and of those probably 100 or 150 were rough skinned, either in the woods or when I had a pile to do and simply didn't have time to clean skin them so I rough skinned some and tossed in the freezer to take care of later.
Boco, I know a lot of guys don't any more, but I learned the old school way, to scrape that hide until you got the "milk" out of it, that milky fat that is in the leather itself. Makes a much whiter dried hide which the fur buyers used to really look for, anymore most furbuyers don't care what color the hide is as long as it isn't greasy. On small beaver I will often only semi-clean, kind of in between a true rough skin and a clean skin, I can do it almost as fast as rough skinning and they scrape/peel off the back fairly easy. But on a true rough skinned beaver that was the way I was taught and by the time I tried using a beam I was much better and faster at doing it on the board with a sharp knife. Takes me longer than clean skinning though, so if I have time I clean skin them the first go around.
I remember the first beaver I ever rough skinned, I had six beaver, probably two hundred pounds in a backpack and when I swung my leg over a log my pack frame snapped in half. Probably between a quarter mile down in a canyon full of blowdowns between me and the pickup. I was just a teenager at the time and thought I was tough, but packing six beaver out in my hands wasn't happening
