Leather Covered Recoil Pads.

[cshold]

These look awesome.
I’m thinking about getting the things needed to try doing one myself.

[Rimfire McNutjob]

Very nice. I'm wondering if there's a foam pad beneath to provide cushion.

[Sixgun]

Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I don't care for the looks or the possible longevity of leather on an area that gets hard use and will be prone to oil absorption. Give me a metel cresent buttplate! But........thats me -------------Sixgun

[Old Savage]

Like solid rubber myself like Ruger and Winchester have used. My desire to preserve the original appearance - I would like to have something like a rubber slip over without a recoil pad in it but haven't seen it - could be leather for that matter, I don't want to beat up either the original plastic butt plate like on my Model 88 or the metal ones on the 92s.

[SJPrice]

These look great on a fine old, or new, SxS. That is where they were traditionally used and that is where they look good. And the way a "Best Gun" was used they held up well. They do not hold up to rough use. Of course very few parts of any gun hold up well to rough use and rough means different things to different people. JMHO

[kimwcook]

These look great on a fine old, or new, SxS. That is where they were traditionally used and that is where they look good. And the way a "Best Gun" was used they held up well. They do not hold up to rough use. Of course very few parts of any gun hold up well to rough use and rough means different things to different people. JMHO

I agree. Personally I like the looks, but wouldn't have one on a piece I was going to use regularly.

[RIHMFIRE]

now that is some gunporn

[Rube Burrows]

I guess they look pretty good. Not sure how they would hold up over the years. I have never really cared for any recoil pads.

[86er]

It's merely a thin leather covering over a Pachmayer or Kick Eez pad (usually one of those two). We offer them with plug holes and without. The plug holes go in the screw holes and the plugs are also leather covered. The "blind" pads that do not have any visible holes use a small bracket that fastens to the wood and the other part to the pad. The brackest slide into one another and lock in place. Therefore, there are no visible holes or plugs in the leather. You can get pre-cut leather that is already edged in the pattern necessary for tucking. Eco-Flo or some other type leather cement is used to fix the leather cover to the pad and to fix the leather to the plugs if you are using them. I get $400 for a leather covered pad with plugs and $475 without.

[jeepnik]

Seems the more years that pass, the more I appreciate a good recoil reducing pad. Kick ez, or something like it are showing up on more and more of my long arms. I find myself using a PAST recoil pad (straps to the shoulder) for loud and boomers that aren't so fitted.

[rimrock]

+1 Jeepnik

rimrock

[cshold]

It's merely a thin leather covering over a Pachmayer or Kick Eez pad (usually one of those two). We offer them with plug holes and without. The plug holes go in the screw holes and the plugs are also leather covered. The "blind" pads that do not have any visible holes use a small bracket that fastens to the wood and the other part to the pad. The brackest slide into one another and lock in place. Therefore, there are no visible holes or plugs in the leather. You can get pre-cut leather that is already edged in the pattern necessary for tucking. Eco-Flo or some other type leather cement is used to fix the leather cover to the pad and to fix the leather to the plugs if you are using them. I get $400 for a leather covered pad with plugs and $475 without.

Joe, could you PM me or post some info. as to where you get the leather you mentioned?
Also, what is the tool used to make those two fine trim beads in the leather at the base of the finished pad? I think that really sets them off in the looks department.
I would like to use leather similar in looks to the one in the last picture that Dewey Vicknair
did, minus the spur.

Thanks,
M

[kimwcook]

Also, what is the tool used to make those two fine trim beads in the leather at the base of the finished pad?

I believe they used a groover. It's used decoratively, as you noticed and for making a groove for stitching so the thread sets below surface level and thus protected more from wear.

[cshold]

Also, what is the tool used to make those two fine trim beads in the leather at the base of the finished pad?

I believe they used a groover. It's used decoratively, as you noticed and for making a groove for stitching so the thread sets below surface level and thus protected more from wear.

Thanks,
Time to visit the local Tandy leather store me thinks.