Remember the "black" Black Widows ?

[Nathan Killen]

I had one back around 1990 ! I'd like to have another one in a SA model, which is what I had.  Anyone know what the coating was on those bows ? I wouldn't mind have South build me a Stalker longbow with the black coating !

[fishone]

I had one also in the early 90's.

[ron w]

I had a SBS [short black stick] Kind'a like an early PSR. Should have kept that one....mine was black but had a texture to it, gave a great grip and feel to the bow.

[Ringneck]

Don't know what the coating is but I talked to a guy that refinished his and he said it was tuff stuff!

[Eric Sprick]

My cousin had one in the mid-80's.  Cool lookin bow and of course a heckuva shooter.  Tough finish, wouldn't mind stumbling across one some day

Eric

[Blackstick]

LBS - Long Black Stick

[Mike Bolin]

I "THINK" that it was a textured epoxy. You could drop Black Widow an email or a phone call and I'm sure that they could verify what was used. I had an LBS takedown and decided to see what was under that coating. It was definitely tuff stuff!! Mike

[dtarbell]

I remember them a friend had one I thuoght it was just dull black paint with a finish over it,I had a green Jack Howard Gamemaster Jet like that.The fancy wood one was 325.00 then.

[DennyK]

Like Mike said, I'm pretty sure it was textured marine epoxy.

[Interseptor]

You know that's the bow that Myles Keller use to shoot,  a black coated Black Widow recurve.

[KSdan]

Yup.  And if you scraped off the finish you had a greybark or autumn oak underneath!    I think there were minor flaws in the grain or something that Ken Beck did not like, so they became the black ones.  I ended up with a greybark.

[BUCKY]

I had a 76# model HS. They did look cool all black.

[LarryP243]

I just read a couple days ago that those were the black widow blemished bows that they did in the black and sold at a reduced rate. if this is true why did they stop doing it?

[bigbadjon]

Maybe they no longer make mistakes.

[Scooter Trash]

I have a metal handled B/W that I sent in to have some weight shaved off.  When they sent it back it had been refinished in the all black epoxy.  That was three or four years ago, so they still must have some of it around.