I have been shooting bows and making arrows for 35+ years and you have some of the coolest ideas I have ever seen. I have a bunch of left wing feather and a right hand clamp. Was trying to decide if I want to buy a straight or left wing clamp and now I know how to make one!!! Thank you...love your bow designs too!
I'm obviously not backyardbowyer, but I might be able to help. The Samick Sage is a great little recurve, you can usually find them for under $160 or so. It's a three-piece takedown, with limbs ranging from 25# all the way up to 60# or so, if I remember. If not that, Bear makes a TON of great recurves.
Agreed, for a good, affordable recurve, you can't beat the Sage. Three Rivers Archery sells it for $139.99 + shipping. I love mine, shoot it all the time, and recommend it when I teach archery.
Hey backyardbowyer I need your advice I'm an aspiring archer and I have been shooting with a compound for a little bit and I decided I'd like to go recurve. aside from making one what's a bow you'd suggest
I have designed a jig to use in conjunction with a clamp like this one except this is not quite wide enough, so I plan to use 1" pipe instead of 3/4". Just wondering why all of the commercially-available jigs are always angled so much. Is there a real advantage to that angle?
Dale Erwin Are you talking about helical twist or just angled from front to back? Either way, the idea is that it causes the arrow to spin in a certain direction and stabilize the arrow faster. If you are using feathers, even fletching them straight will give the arrow a slight twist as it flies. Everyone has their preference, I usually go for more twist on heavier arrows.
BackyardBowyer I'm just talking about how the shaft is inserted into the jig. But talking about helical twist, I'm wondering how much would be sufficient. I think it would only need to be very slight.
Dale Erwin If you mean the angle the arrow is at when it is in the jig I think it is just a convenient working position. Gravity holds it in position when is in the jig at an angle. Flat on a bench and is can slide side to side and standing vertically it can fall over. Sitting at an angle the arrows weight prevents both movement to some degree.....
John Madden Yeah, I guess, but I made mine flat so that the weight of the clamp puts more pressure on the feather as it is being glued to the shaft. Since the feather is glued on at a slight angle (for rotation), I wanted that extra weight to make it lie flat against the shaft.
here is a handy home made jig to use with the feather clamp you made. It`s not my design but looks like they would work well together. instructables.com/id/fletching-emplumadora/
Amazing video as always. I needed a simple feather fletching technique to make a ton of these for my pvc bows.
I have been shooting bows and making arrows for 35+ years and you have some of the coolest ideas I have ever seen. I have a bunch of left wing feather and a right hand clamp. Was trying to decide if I want to buy a straight or left wing clamp and now I know how to make one!!! Thank you...love your bow designs too!
Thanks guys
I'm obviously not backyardbowyer, but I might be able to help. The Samick Sage is a great little recurve, you can usually find them for under $160 or so. It's a three-piece takedown, with limbs ranging from 25# all the way up to 60# or so, if I remember. If not that, Bear makes a TON of great recurves.
You gave me an idea to make 3 of them. Working of a pivot point to do all 3 or 4 fletchings at same time . Thanks man
Agreed, for a good, affordable recurve, you can't beat the Sage. Three Rivers Archery sells it for $139.99 + shipping. I love mine, shoot it all the time, and recommend it when I teach archery.
Hey backyardbowyer I need your advice I'm an aspiring archer and I have been shooting with a compound for a little bit and I decided I'd like to go recurve. aside from making one what's a bow you'd suggest
Simple and effective, great 👍
Awesome videos, very informative! One question: Is smoosh a technical term. :)
your such a humble man , love the videos and good job. i want to build a bow soon but im scared.
what kind of saw blade do you use to cut your PVC?
I have designed a jig to use in conjunction with a clamp like this one except this is not quite wide enough, so I plan to use 1" pipe instead of 3/4". Just wondering why all of the commercially-available jigs are always angled so much. Is there a real advantage to that angle?
Dale Erwin Are you talking about helical twist or just angled from front to back? Either way, the idea is that it causes the arrow to spin in a certain direction and stabilize the arrow faster. If you are using feathers, even fletching them straight will give the arrow a slight twist as it flies. Everyone has their preference, I usually go for more twist on heavier arrows.
BackyardBowyer I'm just talking about how the shaft is inserted into the jig. But talking about helical twist, I'm wondering how much would be sufficient. I think it would only need to be very slight.
Dale Erwin If you mean the angle the arrow is at when it is in the jig I think it is just a convenient working position. Gravity holds it in position when is in the jig at an angle. Flat on a bench and is can slide side to side and standing vertically it can fall over. Sitting at an angle the arrows weight prevents both movement to some degree.....
John Madden
Yeah, I guess, but I made mine flat so that the weight of the clamp puts more pressure on the feather as it is being glued to the shaft. Since the feather is glued on at a slight angle (for rotation), I wanted that extra weight to make it lie flat against the shaft.
Dale Erwin try using CA glue with activator such as 2p-10 it will set in seconds of you do it that way
thanks again always giving sane alternatives
Hi Champion, Can I use foamy instead fethers? Thanks
Absolute genius! I've got to try this..
Very informative video. Thank you!
wow i actually got to be first. anyway i really love your videos! Keep up the great work!
Great idea, thanks for the info! Love it!
I got ur book man it helps out a lot. If you are the same author of Backyard Bowyer.
What his book called I wanna read it?
is that a hair dryer ?
No,its a heater(Blower) something like That
don't be scared, you can do it! :)
nope... it's a heat gun (which goes' upwards of between 400 and 1,100 degrees farenheit)
Thanks
You Channel Help me a lot,Thanks *Subsribed
You know a lot about this you must have learnt it some where how you do it
here is a handy home made jig to use with the feather clamp you made. It`s not my design but looks like they would work well together.
instructables.com/id/fletching-emplumadora/
Its not in english but enough pictures to be self explanatory.
it's a heat gun