Yes, I was raising rabbits when fresh out of high school. Get Rex breed. They have thicker skin for better hide quality and makes for an easy work of stripping off the pelt. Never cut down the belly skin as this just makes more work and gets blood on the pelt. Instead hang up live rabbit in two straps by hind legs with back facing you. Place both index fingers under chin to form a sort of loop for chin rest while placing both thumbs on top of rabbits skull. Gently pivot the skull to 90 degree angle from spine, tighten index fingers and thumbs on spine and push sharply downwards. The spine will pivot out of the skull and sever the spinal cord. This is an internal decapitation. You will feel and hear the audible snap as the vertebrae pops out of the skull and the rabbit goes limp. Done correctly most rabbits feel no anxiety or alarm so I consider this method of dispatch to be the most humane. You can now cut around the skin of the hind legs just below the straps holding the legs then cut skin along the inner side of the legs down to anus and around genitals. Tail can be snipped off with a small cut up the tail stump. After this is done I would simply pull down the skin using my fingers to separate the skin from the body. Arriving to the front legs just pull them out of the skin to the wrists and cut skin around wrist. Continue the separation down the neck to ears and chin and then cut around. You now have an inside out pelt with zero blood on pelt. Lay pelt aside for the moment and direct attention back to rabbit carcass. Cut neck muscles at base of skull and head drops off cleanly. Your knife won't even touch the spine when done correctly and the blood will quickly drain off. Cut around genitals and anus and along belly being careful to not damage entrails. Pull anus and genitals through pelvis girdle and remove guts. Use utility scissors for rib cage and remove lungs and esophagus. All entrails can now be dropped into waste bucket. Remove front paws at wrist and hind legs in similar manner. Carcass is now ready for sale. I never washed carcass as this is basically a very sterile procedure. From start to finish was about five minutes so customers could show up, ask for rabbit and a few minutes later I could hand it over. Back to pelt I would use liberal amounts of coarse kosher salt and start at hind area getting separation started between membrane and hide using fingers only. Using more salt to get a grip on this membrane I would work it to the neck until its all off then hang the salted hide inside out in cool dark closet to dry. No stretching and nailing to a board needed. I could store dried hides until I had enough to send in to tanners with no concern for spoilage as the oils and fat in that inner membrane have been peeled off. I sent in batches of dried salted skins and tannery would send back excellent pelts. Of course they do make the belly cut but the only other mark they would make is some small perforations on one hind leg corner where a barbed holding device attaches for processing. BTW, why Rex pelts are so much better ? The guard hairs are same length as inner soft hairs which gives a thick velvety feel and hair is much more densely spaced. Rex rabbits are medium sized so mature for harvesting in six months. They generally have non-aggressive nature and never once was I bitten. They do well in cold but need careful attention if summer Temps approach 100f.