Winterizing wooden snowshoes?

[Pydpiper]

Looks like it is finally time to hang them up until next season.
What needs to be done to wooden shoes with catgut webbing before I store them? I keep them indoors on my office wall so they will be in a dry/warm room.
Is there any treatment required or just hang them up?

[Phoenix_Tom]

I'm not sure about the catgut but for my hybrid showshoes the manufacturer says to just make sure they're clean and if there are any patches of varnish on the wood that have been worn down that you put some varnish on them.

[Thunder]

Make sure they're extra dry, then give them a liberal dose of varnish.
By the way, GREAT use for cats

[DaGriz]

If the lacing is loose you need to tighten in up. Take your bindings off. Then the shoes should be soaked in warm water to soften the lwebbing. Then tighen all the webbing and retie the knots. Bind them together, bottom to bottom, with a short piece of wood seperating the tips. The wooden block should push very hard against the tips to provide more "lift" of the toes. Once the webbing has completely dried it should be very tight once again. Now you put two -three good coats of premimum shelac on the whole shoe . Make sure you get good coverage of all the webbing and frame.

Once it has dried they are ready to stand in a corner until next winter,

[Pydpiper]

Perfect! Thank you.

[RAGS]

Gosh Thunder...
What a thing to say! You know how partial I am to cats.
I really don't think they use cats anyway...there is no fur on my snowshoes.
R

[dutchhunter]

i ahve a pair just like you discribe i keep them inside niceand dry thy have lasted many years DUTCH