Snake Skin Backing Project Complete

[graygoat]

We finished backing my recurve.  It looks pretty good.  Time will tell how well it holds up.

Here are some pictures of our progress along the way.

   

 

 

 

 

[bretto]

Nice job.

[joe ashton]

don't set that bow down in the woods!  You'll loose it.

[Canadian Idle]

Nice job Kelvin. Was it very difficult to do? Where'd you get the skins. ...Lloyd

[Richie]

Good job, looks awesome.  

[Eric Krewson]

My only suggestion would be to center the skins diamonds a little more carefully on the limbs.

When I skin a bow I will spend a good bit of time adjusting the pattern to be as perfectly centered as I can get it.

I skinned an osage bow yesterday with a split timber rattler skin. I centered the chevrons as well as I could but because the splits were a bit narrow I couldn't get everything as perfectly aligned as I would have liked.

[Butchie]

Nice job!  Gotta love those snakeskin bows!

[Kc kreger]

 

Very pretty.  Great job sir.  Thanks for sharing with us.

K.C.

[graygoat]

I thought they were centered up. After we went back too work on them later one was off a bit. My son said it was the one he glued.I'm pleased with it for the first time. It's fine for me but I would be a little more careful next time. Maybe a longbow.

[RecurveRookie]

Beautiful, my suggestion is... "Don't let that gorgeous bow outta your sight for one second!" Very nice.

[Bodie]

Looks good to me. Nice job. I wish I could find copper heads that long.

[graygoat]

This bow had copperheads on for about 20 years. They were almost 40 inches long. I know most people have never seen them that long ,but they can and are few and far between. It took me 6 months too find two like that.One was a road kill and the other was killed in a food plot.

[Duncan]

Good job! I've often thought about skinning my Hoyt Huntmaster. How did remove the bushings?

[graygoat]

Take a small hammer and the right size socket and on the back side tap it out. If you have access to a press use it instead. But I would pad it so not too mar the glass. To put it back in just start it by hand then use the limb bolts to reinsert them

[graygoat]

I do think that the draw weight has increased a few pounds. I need to take it to the farm and check it on the scales. The weight is 55# at 28inand it is 54in long

[Warden609]

Looks good!!

[graygoat]

We just came in from my Dads farm and pulled out the scales to check the bow. It is 55# at 28in. It weighed in at 61# at 28in. That's a 6# difference. It seems to shoot just as smooth as before. Does anyone think it will be a problem? I guess only time will tell. I have always checked the bow before I shoot it. Now I'll just check it closer.

[wooddamon1]

I had no idea that it increased draw weight, but good job, that's nice. If the arrows still fly good, no problem.