Thank you fellas for the positive comments. I do appreciate them.
Coaster and Johnston, I'm posting some pictures of the wool wrap areas and the shelf.
I've been shooting bare hand for the last 3 years without much use of a shelf or even a set nock point, but after shooting at Pappy's 3d course and being out in the field on a hog hunt last summer, I'm re-considering their value.
If you have the TBB2, in the strings section it shows how to finish the serving. I used the same technique to wrap the wool without making a knot. You wrap, then make a last lengthy wrap where you reverse the string and wrap backwards about 5 times. The tag end you lay parallel with the bow toward your wraps beginning. Then, complete it by re-wrapping the length of your original direction over again, which will "take up" the amount you reverse wrapped. Then just pull through the tag end and trim. Probably hard to understand by reading but after a few practice times it's easy. It seems pretty durable so far, I've been shooting this bow in for several weeks, so the yarn has dirtied up some. I thought that when stringing the bow, the loop being nocked may mess with the wool, but it hasn't been the case.
I wonder about wrapping an entire bow in yarn and giving it a spray with a water resistant silicone spray. I think a short sinew backed bow done this way with some bead-work stitched into it may looks real handsome.
Anyhow, hope this helps.
Happy Thanksgiving, Gentlemen.
