Photomatching Lizard Skin Taped Bats

[drmiraculous]

I have a several gamer bats with lizard skin and other brands of wraps. I noticed it doesnt take long before they are flaking badly, six months or a year later they start to deteriorate noticeably. I am strongly considering removing wraps from my bats in the future because they are impossible to preserve and look awful when they disintegrate.

[Trublubrucru]

I have two bats from 2018 that have Lizard skin handle wraps. They both have handle cracks that go right through the skin, showing its not a very durable material. Within six months the tape was peeling and falling off. Today after a closer inspection, it seems the skin tape had adhesive that stayed on the bat, or to me, adhesive was applied to the bat then the non sticky skin tape was wrapped around. The peeling tape had no stickiness whatsoever. Either way it does not compare in durability or adhesion to good old fashion Athletic tape

[Trublubrucru]

As for photomatching, I didn't see a color fade at all, and I think with deteriorating and loss of tape it would be very hard to confirm it in a game photo with an intact handle

[bigfanNY]

I have a 2017 Trout Bat that says Photomatched on PSA cert. I downloaded a couple pictures from the day referenced on the cert. So far the tape has held up very well.