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Looks great ginni thanks for the pics. You're pullin some heavy weight there those bows must be absolute rockets at close range... The stingray looks great, thanks for sharing. Any more pics of the bows?

first you gotta catch a sting ray

As I remember, when I was much younger and did those things, they are quite easy to spear when skin diving. They seem to be so confident of their sting they just stay put in the sand when approached. But once you speared the you better move out of the way fast as they like that and lashed furiously whichever way. I remember caching them was not considered sport for being too easy. In any case zdog no need to catch the here as they are regularly on the market and are quite tasty deep-fried, lots of cartilage though.

Thanks Trident, any google address as all I have found are wallets made of that skin.

Thanks blue lake for the information, I have just ordered a few skins in discreet colors.

How does the skins fit best on the grip; one rectangular single peace adapted to the grip or a long thin strip wound around it?

Did the old horn bows have that kind of material?

The strip won't work for real stingray maybe only rubber one like Gianni had. It should be the rectangle shape, do a rough measurement and do many fittings until it fits as perfect as possible. One thing though, it is so tough to cut that when you cut it will not be exact because of the scales they are random and so tough to cut through. So you will keep fitting and stretch the piece it will stretch very little but it will stretch, so stretch It out as much as you can and then do fittings again and put rubber cement on the back of it, all over with an ice cream stick or something similar will work great. The shape isn't perfectly round so fitting is the tough part but not that hard. The line where it joins should be on the outside (back) of bow facing away from you. And once you cut, take a black marker and black out any spots that were scratched on the ends during cutting this works well for me. Put glue, place on grip, and stretch ends so that they meet end to end as they did during fitting. Clean off any excess quickly with a wet paper towel, and I like to wrap cording around the grip during drying so that it stays very tight and will help mold it to the grip exactly. Let dry for 24 hours they say, I think that a day is fine.