Wear on handle
I'm not sure if this has been posted before, but I've recently noticed a fair bit of wear on the leather handle. What can I do to try stop it? (as I'm sure that's not meant to happen)
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If you are talking about wear caused by the arrow when shooting with a thumb guard, I can offer some suggestions. If your index finger is pressing too firmly on the side of the nock of the arrow just before you release, addition flex is added to the arrow as it passes the bow. This causes noise and wear. Anything else that causes too much flexing of the arrow, like a poor release or too soft an arrow can do the same thing.
Many traditional bows had either something tough at the arrow pass, like a piece of horn or ivory on long bows or a removable strip of leather on some Korean and Chinese bows. Other bows had a removable binding wrapped around the grip.
A soft removable (glued on) piece of deer skin can be used to quieten and absorb the wear of the arrow.
Many traditional bows had either something tough at the arrow pass, like a piece of horn or ivory on long bows or a removable strip of leather on some Korean and Chinese bows. Other bows had a removable binding wrapped around the grip.
A soft removable (glued on) piece of deer skin can be used to quieten and absorb the wear of the arrow.
Stuff that has got worn was probably put there deliberately to get worn. A little oval of stingray skin resists wear very well and looks quite cool.
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It seems that arrows are too hard, or you have low brace height. During the shoot, arrow is bending in part approximately between the midle of arrow and 1/4 of arrow (in direction to nock) . If system bow- arrow works good, arrow is missing bow with minimum contact.
If you are shooting with type of bow for which is low brace typical, for instance modern Korean bow, back part of arrow has very often in a big contact with bow.
Insert ray skin or skin from shark looks well, but arrows will have very short living and in the best example you will to change fletching very often.
My advice is- to change brace height, to use arrows with higher spin or isert peace ov some hard material to the handle. Ivory, bone, silver..not skin.
You can make test with lipstick. If you will use it along the all lenght of arrow, after shot you will can find, where is contact between bow and arrow the hardest. Probably in part approximately 5cm infront of fletching.
Hard insert can help with wear, but you will lost accuracy
It seems that arrows are too hard, or you have low brace height. During the shoot, arrow is bending in part approximately between the midle of arrow and 1/4 of arrow (in direction to nock) . If system bow- arrow works good, arrow is missing bow with minimum contact.
If you are shooting with type of bow for which is low brace typical, for instance modern Korean bow, back part of arrow has very often in a big contact with bow.
Insert ray skin or skin from shark looks well, but arrows will have very short living and in the best example you will to change fletching very often.
My advice is- to change brace height, to use arrows with higher spin or isert peace ov some hard material to the handle. Ivory, bone, silver..not skin.
You can make test with lipstick. If you will use it along the all lenght of arrow, after shot you will can find, where is contact between bow and arrow the hardest. Probably in part approximately 5cm infront of fletching.
Hard insert can help with wear, but you will lost accuracy
M??a has a good point about brace height. The lower brace heights induce more contact unless the technique corrects for it or the stiffness of the arrow is lower.
However, hard materials on the arrow pass make the problem worse. Using a leather or skin piece glued on with hide glue means it can be easily replaced when it was worn. Turkish flight archers glued thin leather to the surface of their sipers when they used them with arrows with hard materials in the head like ivory or metal. It could be peeled off for reuse when they were using practice arrows.
However, hard materials on the arrow pass make the problem worse. Using a leather or skin piece glued on with hide glue means it can be easily replaced when it was worn. Turkish flight archers glued thin leather to the surface of their sipers when they used them with arrows with hard materials in the head like ivory or metal. It could be peeled off for reuse when they were using practice arrows.