Arrow shelf

[bow101]

Where do you guys get your arrow shelf material from..? And exactly what is it..?
Is it ok to use thin smooth cow hide for the bottom part of the shelf..?

   

[Roy]

Cow hide will work, calf hide with the hair on is really smooth material. I use tanned deer hide which is very soft also. The smooth part of Velcro also works well and is cheap. I really like feather rests, many trad dealers sell them and everything else you may need.

[Weylin]

I use a golf tee for the shelf and a bit of leather for the pass.

[osage outlaw]

I build up layers of leather for my rests.  I put a thin soft piece of leather on the arrow pass.

[adb]

Cork.

[Bryce]

I'll second the golf tee

[Stefan]

antilope skin  with hair. Double sided tape to stick on the shelf

[lostarrow]

Deer leg  with hair on .You can buy Calf Skin ,it's about the same. durable and looks good. Easy on the fletching.

[Pappy]

I do like Osage Outlaw. Hard leather for the rest and soft for the stricker plate.
   Pappy

[crooketarrow]

  I don't build bend through the handle bows anymore. I cut my shelfs in to the bow. And for myself I've always shoot off the wood and have ever since I started building and shooting slefbows.
  If you can't shoot off the wood self and do it quitly for forms off somewhere.

[Jim Davis]

I haven't used a shelf on a bow I made in a dozen years. Don't plan to ever again. i want to feel the arrow when I draw. So, I guess I use epidermis for my shelf and wood for the pass--sometimes do use soft leather on the pass.

Jim Davis

[Keenan]

 I quit using things like wood or bone that ware and scrape the arrow or make noise.  Most all I use now is leather build up saturated with super glue.
 Here is a buildalong
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,37208.0.html

[kevinsmith5]

I use industrial Velcro, the smooth part, on youth bows. On my "better bows" I use hair on goat skin.

[PEARL DRUMS]

Stacked leather for me, wrapped in deer hide. Im a hunter and I need a quiet bow no matter my form, my draw, or my arrows spine.

[Pat B]

I use a bulbous handle with a Ferret's Floppy Rest.