Snake skins on Dryad limbs

[Biblethumpincop]

I received a set of Timber rattler snake skins from 4Nolz that had been dried.  I used titebond II and glued them up.  I then rasped away the excess on the sides, which beveled the skins to match the limb.  I then pulled the scales off that remained, and put 2 different coats of thin super glue on the skins. What a mess that stuff can make on the belly of the limb.  I cleaned it up and shot the belly with a light coat of spray bed liner.  My riser is a textured black powdercoated proline warf, so the Dryad Epic ILF limbs look cool on it.

I lightly sanded, then put several coats of urethane on them.  I shot the bow through the same chrono, and noticed that I was about 7 fps FASTER.  What?  I weighed the bow and found that even though the limb bolts were locked in place, I gained about 5 lbs.  Is that normal when adding on skins?  I imagine it is like adding on another lamination layer.
Does anyone have any experience to confirm this?
 
 

[Biblethumpincop]

 
 

[bjansen]

Very Nice!

[Biblethumpincop]

I did some more measuring at the range.  My weight and speed wasn't what I had posted.  I must have been pulling a little strong.  Today, I was getting about 1lbs-2lbs not 5lbs over.  The speed with the skins applied dropped a few feet per second as well.  I guess that makes more sense.

[Robert Marvin]

where'd you get the skins?

[Biblethumpincop]

I got them from 4Nolz.

[Robert Marvin]

does he sell skins? a search says "no results"

[Biblethumpincop]

He was on another site.  I don't know if he has another name on here.  We traded material.  I don't think he sells commercially.  I think you can buy from 3rivers.com though.  Good luck.

[Robert Marvin]

took a few PMs to find him,he sells snakeskins on outdoore core  (.com) I got some from him.