I haven't tried clean skinning yet cause I am pretty smooth with rough skinned beavers and a caribou fleshing knife. Going to try it sometime when I don't have so many to skin someday. Looks like an adventure I am willing to give a try.

I noticed a lot of sun in the clean skinning videos posted here. Bunch of flies in the first one. Assuming those beavers were “warmed up”. Imagine a warm beaver would be much easier to clean skin than one that’s cold or even recently thawed?

If a beaver is partially frozen the knife tends to dig into the leather. Same with conibear marks where the leather shows marks.

Sorry on the video she did of me. I had no control over any of it.

No need to apologize, it was informative. Might try clean skinning this weekend if I catch a couple and have time to practice.

I've changed my process. I start by hooking the leg holes over the end of the beam and work 360 degrees around each leg. All that is left is a small patch in the center.