Handling your business

[Roksliding]

I assume some of you people work on your own archery equipment. I would like to start doing my own work.

what kind of equipment is necessary for the basics?

bow press?
Fletching equipment?

what do you guys have and what can a guy get by with?

 

[Billy Goat]

I'd be more focused on tuning equipment than fletching and arrow building equipment. Enough places will build arrows to order that you can get exactly what you want.

Need to have a draw board, bow press, and a scale. Know how to use a tape measure.

 

[Whiskey_Fish]

I have a cable bow press and a diy draw board/scale that we made with a screw drive trailer winch and some lumber. Have been able to do a couple string replacements and tuning on a handful of bows now. I’d love a permanent press but it just isn’t in the cards.

I use my mountain bike work stand to hold the bow while using the cable press.


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[ShakeDown]

Press, draw board, scale for board, scale for arrows, paper tuning set up, vise, chrono.

 

[Trial153]

Bow press
Draw board
Bow scale
Arrow saw
Fletching Jig
Bowvise
Arrow scale
Serving Jig
Hex and torx set
Paper rack and target bag for tuning

 

[Roksliding]

Thank you very much!!

Bow Press- is a bow press a bow press or is there something special I should be looking for?? (Matthew Traverse) any suggestions which model?

 

[Brendan]

Most people go with Last Chance EZ Press. EZ Green should be fine.

Last Chance Archery, LLC

lastchancearchery.com

You can build a draw board very easily if you have space, there are also some that integrate with the press.

 

[nettereo16]

I've gotten by with a cable press.
I built a draw board with a 2x6 & boat winch and I hooked up a digital scale.
Arizona mini fletch jig for Blazers
Digital scale for arrow components

Other stuff - Hotmelt insert glue, BCY serving, center-serve & jig, D-Loop material
Razor blade, tape measure, arrow square, lighter, allen set

I would like a full-size press with a vice but it's expensive for how infrequently I use it and space in my workroom is limited. The cable press has worked fine for me.

I haven't been to a bow shop in years...

 

[Mighty Mouse]

I agree with prioritizing bow tuning/setup equipment over arrow building equipment.

After a set of hex wrenches, a press would be top priority for me. A "real" press that pushes the limb tips toward each other from the outside (e.g., Last Chance, X-Press) would be best, but you can get by with a portable press that pulls the limb tips together like a Synunm or Bowmaster. Portable presses are more cumbersome to setup/takedown and their cables/ropes can interfere with the work you're trying to do, but they still enable you to perform most maintenance and tuning tasks. A limb swap might not be possible depending on the portable press's range of travel, but changing strings/cables, adjusting string/cable twists, installing a peep sight, and yoke tuning would all be doable. If you go with a Bowmaster, you'll need the split limb brackets to press your Traverse.

 

[Trumpkin The Dwarf]

This thread is timely. I just inherited my first wheelbow. The siren call of the dark side is a lot stronger when the bow is free .

 

[Roksliding]

Draw board looks easy..

Anybody ever build a press? The EZ last chance looks very buildable

Square tubing
Crank
Threaded rod
A bored coworker welder/millwright on night shift

the fingers could be tricky but with autocad and a water jet cutter with some plastic dip I think that’d be doable..


anyone try this yet??

 

[87TT]

Home built bow press.

Has anyone built a bow press. I have and have seen the portable ones and the do it yourself ratchet strap ones. I was thinking about building one at home. I have two Hoyt bows. One parallel and one past parallel. It says not to use regular press. Need something like an Xpress I guess. Trying to...

www.rokslide.com

Here you go.

 

[Billy Goat]

One member built a press last year or the year before, he has a post on it somewhere.
Pretty basic, I think it would work fine but I'd rather a little more security of a built press myself. I might or might not have damaged a set of limbs trying to make something work once. Decided I could buy a press before I screwed up another set and be money even.

 

[Billy Goat]

Home built bow press.

Has anyone built a bow press. I have and have seen the portable ones and the do it yourself ratchet strap ones. I was thinking about building one at home. I have two Hoyt bows. One parallel and one past parallel. It says not to use regular press. Need something like an Xpress I guess. Trying to...

www.rokslide.com

Here you go.

Thought it was you, had an @ to you then figured I'd search and find it before I just started naming names.

Saved me some searching.

 

[87TT]

Just put a new string on and tuned up the Pro Defiant. I have pressed my bows 100's of times with zero problems. I even had the ratchet strap slip under pressure once. Kind of scared me a little but no problems. It's so solid there is almost no way to mess up.

 

[87TT]

Some of those "store bought" presses with the hydralic jacks and chains would scare the crap out of me. I have one of those Bow Medic type set ups that I should just sell as I'll never use it again. I had more luck and faith with just a couple of Harbor Freight ratchet straps and some paracord loops on the limbs. A $20 strap winch on a 2x6 with a larger bike rack hook made a draw board.

 

[Roksliding]

Home built bow press.

Has anyone built a bow press. I have and have seen the portable ones and the do it yourself ratchet strap ones. I was thinking about building one at home. I have two Hoyt bows. One parallel and one past parallel. It says not to use regular press. Need something like an Xpress I guess. Trying to...

www.rokslide.com

Here you go.

Boom!!! Thank you sir!! Totally building that!

 

[87TT]

Any questions just let me know.

 

[5 shot group]

Draw board looks easy..

Anybody ever build a press? The EZ last chance looks very buildable

Square tubing
Crank
Threaded rod
A bored coworker welder/millwright on night shift

the fingers could be tricky but with autocad and a water jet cutter with some plastic dip I think that’d be doable..


anyone try this yet??

If you need the fingers for a home built press, look over on Archery Talk. There is a guy there who makes and sells them. Last I saw, it was $60 for a set.

You will need to meet the post and time requirement though for the classifieds.

 

[Brendan]

Draw board looks easy..

Anybody ever build a press? The EZ last chance looks very buildable

Square tubing
Crank
Threaded rod
A bored coworker welder/millwright on night shift

the fingers could be tricky but with autocad and a water jet cutter with some plastic dip I think that’d be doable..


anyone try this yet??

No, but I have heard stories of a bow flying out of a press, hitting someone in the face, and causing thousands of dollars of medical bills and a broken bow.

EZ Press seems cheap, just saying...

(Not saying it can't work, but be careful. If you're going to own this for a while, convenience becomes a factor and being able to easily adjust and take bows out of the press, back in, etc matters. If it's a once a season make a couple tweaks and then throw it in a corner for a year, that's a different story...)