It depends on how well the bow/arrow are tuned. If there is a lot of contact with the shelf/sight window at release it will wear.

Give it a try. You may like it.

I just got a new Black Hunter. It didn’t have any rest material with it so I used a Bear rug and side plate. Can’t tell you how good this thing shoots !!!

I use real calf hair on all my bows, it's slick stuff. Don't know what faux calf hair is but I glue mine n with barge cement. Just make sure that you have it pointed in the correct direction with respect to right or left handed and trim it short.

The hair needs to be placed in such a way that the arrow when released is traveling with the natural direction of the hair and not against it. Same thing with a hair tab.

If you are tearing up any rest material, your arrows are likely dragging and not bending properly. Just get a good tune and just about anything will work. If you want something that will stick well, then industrial strength Velcro is perfect, and you can buy enough for half a dozen bows for less than $5.00.

I use it and it has held up great! As mentioned above, make sure that you cut your pieces such that the hair lays in the direction that the arrow travels, also if your bow is tuned correctly, it should provide minimal wear in the hair rest.

Give it a try, you can always remove it if you don't like it!

I just recently pick up a cpl BH recurves. One had no rest materials the other had the one pc. faux calf material. The calf material seemed cheaply thin so I put on standard two pc shelf and riser materials as pictured.

Arrow rest material is cheap, so I don't get all torn up over what a bow comes with since I'll likely change it anyway. Bow companies sell bows. I make my own rests and mostly...99% are stick on variety...not shelf rugs. I do have one with Velcro on the shelf and thin leather on the side plate area.

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