i ordered a rer cxr last week, (grey durawood w/ black glass limbs) and am thinking how i can "dress it up". i plan on skinning the limbs with either a real skin, or the vinal wrap.
and i really like the thunderhorn quivers with the snakeskin insert.
my question is do you think that would be to much skin? and what kind would look good? i dont know my snakes..  :confused:     anybody else have a similar combo i can look at??

gaff

No KS????

Oh yeah...I think it will look fine with the limbs skinned with the quiver. I'd want it all to be the same kind of skin though...

oh yeah, deffinatly the same kind curt. ya know the rer was a good bit less $$ than the ks, and a good bit less mass weight as well.
i tell ya, i still drool like crazy everytime i see one. i like to think at some point i will get myself one!!

gaff

With the gray action wood, I would go with canebreaks, or diamondbacks. The black glass should make the pattern stand out. Black leather quiver with the same skin accents. Then get Guru to "snake" a dozen arrows for ya...  :D  No such thing as too much. LOL. Of course Cottonmouth skins are cool, and subtle.

Snake are awesome creatures, and one of the most attractive skins IMO. My uncle(who was really my Dad's best friend) used to have HUNDREDS. I remember walking into his house and the rattlers just going nuts....He was one of  a few people in NYS lisenced for poisonous snakes. When he died, the majority of what he had went to various reptile institutions through out the NE.

"Black leather quiver with the same skin accents"
my thoughts exactly!!! i dont know what the differance is between the canebreaks, diamondbacks or the cottonmouths?? anybody got pics??
i thought all the glass would be covered by the skins??  

gaff

The glass will be covered, but real snakeskin is thin enough to see through, to an extent. Canebreaks are the triangular or arrowhead shaped pattern, diamondbacks look like a row of diamonds. Cottonmouths resemble a much darker, blackish copperhead pattern.
I was thinking a bullsnake would also "pop" with that....there are so many choices...LOL. I wont describe that one...  :D  
Try checking the sponsors, they might have pics.

i think this would look cool!! i hope it works, its my first picture post!!

D'Oh! Too dark for pics now, but tomorrow I'll post up a few pics of my skinned Shrewesque with matching skinned quiver. It's very pretty!  :D

I've seen a lot of pics of snake skin over black glass and the black realy brings out the detail.

I don't think I'd go with vinal though.

Jim, that quiver is awesome lQQking. The bow is gonna lQQk great..

You can never show to much skin!!

trust me mike, you dont want me showin anythin!!!!  :eek:   LOL

gaff

Here y'go.....

In many states Rattlesnakes and many other kind of snakes are protected spieces. It's illegal to kill or buy skins.

Charcoal Dymondwood with black glass under the skins, black glass on the belly as well.
   This is a 50's style recurve by John McDonald "Big River Bows" it is a two piece (sleeve handle) T/D.