Osage, I (think) I know the spiner your talking about, I bookmarked the page with the print out dial a while ago, but I never got my head around how to put it all together. Also, my feathers seems to hold up fine, but my whippings do sometimes get beat up and the glue on the whipping will crack sometimes if I don't use an arrow pass. When they do get beat up is when I miss by a mile and drag the fletchings right across a bunch of gravel and stuff,
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Del, I actually don't use shelves anymore. The string alignment seems to be good on the bows I am currently using. Alot of the time, because I have had problems with string alignment in the past, I will wait until I am finished tillering a bow to finish the handle, and suit the handles angle to where the string wants to lay. I have to do this sometimes, especially when the stave is overly reflexed to begin with and I can't get too much of a accurate centerline. I'm had some good reflexed bows turn out ridiculous looking with the limbs twisting because of string alignment, so it probably ain't helping too much,
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Jude, hit me up on the trade blanket when you wanna trade some tiger skins for some osage.
Arrows,arrows,arrows are the problem.
Fix the problem not the symptoms!
I guess sometimes I am like a cat with a urinary infection, where it pees all over the house in different places, because it thinks that is if pees in a different place it will not hurt, when it fact it just has a urinary infection.
Hey, 2many. I have used several different materials, but prefer velcro when I am not "going primitive". Then I generally use the same leather I use for my handle. I haven't really had too much trouble wearing them out, though.
FYI- I was given a right handed recurve when I was a teenager. I am right handed, but left eye dominant so I have always shot guns and bows in a left handed stance. So, similar to you, I shot a right handed bow left handed. I took an archery class in college and gave my archery instructor fits, but she couldn't argue with success. I shot really well. When I took the plunge to buy a longbow, the bowyer encouraged me to try to shoot correctly. (a left handed bow for a left handed shooter). I was amazed at how quickly I made the switch. By the end of the day I was shooting extremely well. The good part about it, is it solves other problems you don't think about till they are gone. I won't go into them, now, but I highly recommend trying it. I never went back.
It does seem so unnatural to me to shoot that way, I almost can't imagine how people can stand to shoot that way! LOL I'll try to shoot the right way sometime today, try to get a hang of it.
