2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/156934We prove that a Bers slice is never algebraic, meaning that its Zariski closure in the character variety has strictly larger dimension. A corollary is that skinning maps are never constant. The proof uses grafting and the theory of complex projective structures.11 pages, 1 figure, to appear in American Journal of MathematicsGeometric TopologyDifferential Geometrytext