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Offline criveraville

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Redfish skin for bow backing?
« on: August 02, 2011, 12:46:24 pm »



Anyone ever use Redfish skin for bow backing? Is it anygood? How's it look?

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Cipriano 
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Re: Redfish skin for bow backing?
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2011, 12:53:05 pm »
Iv tanned some red fish it turns grey and loses the prety gold color
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Offline Gus

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Re: Redfish skin for bow backing?
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2011, 05:38:34 pm »
Cipriano,

I have a couple of skins in the Freezer that I plan to do some testing with.
But still have to scrape and dry them to Rawhide first... :)
They are pretty thick and tough, who knows?

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Re: Redfish skin for bow backing?
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2011, 05:41:58 pm »
I think they would make a good backing but I was bummed when saw them turn grey GL Gus I hope you can figure out how to keep them gold colored it would make a pretty color if the stayed true
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