I need a little input on shelf placement. I am making a bamboo backed black locust bow. Where is the best placement of the arrow shelf in relation to the center line. Bow will be 68 inches (until I break it then it will be 4 17inch bows plus some splinters). The riser/handle is a glued up handle which fades 2 inches past the limb taper. Thanks and :pray: maybe I won't break this one.
Fancy Firewood
Check out this recent post on this very question. Lots of good answers here.
http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=125;t=005840
1 1/2 above the center of the bow.
1 1/4 above center. don
Mine are usually 1 1/4-2"
I like to keep mine in a box at the back of the shop, to be taken out only if someone absolutely insists on ruining a traditional bow by putton one on. Or, to paraphrase a famous Mexican bandit, "We don' need no stinking shelfses!"
Seriously, I had to put one on a bow today and I put it 1 1/4" up.