Skateboard tape.  I cut a small piece and apply to the grip area where my bow hand's thumb pad makes contact, which is the sole pressure point that keeps the bow from falling down when at full draw.  A view of the bow hand shows that it is held near horizontal, with only the meat below the thumb applying pressure to the grip.  The skateboard tape is also an indicator as to where to settle the thumb base to the grip.  All bow hand fingers encircle the bow grip but apply NO pressure.  I do NOT "grip" any bow - there needs to be ONE point of bow hand contact, not multiple points where resulting pressures will lead to inconsistent releases.  At the release, the bow riser jumps forward to be "caught" by my encircled fingers, where the pointer finger is touching the thumb to keep the bow from falling.  There is no need for a finger sling or bow grip sling.

There is no end to what you can experiment with.  I often come back to simple old black fabric electricians tape.  It's not pretty but it sure works.

Nice to see it back again

What about checkering like a gun stock?  It's pretty tedious work though.

I've made both Flemish and endless bowstrings for all my trad longbows and recurves, for the last 70 years (yep, no foolin').

Spinning an endless bowstring requires a jig and the length is preset by the jig arms.  But ya need that good one or twin arm bowstring jig contraption.

Twisting a Flemish bowstring requires no jig, but setting the length and second loop requires back twisting and a bit of luck setting a proper loop-to-loop finished string length.

It's much easier and way faster to twist up a Flemish bowstring with just one top limb loop and tie the bottom limb loop with a bowyer's knot.  Just make the length of the bowstring about a 8" to 10" longer than the bow's AMO length.  The non-loop end needs to be Flemish braided tightly for that extra length. I highly suspect this was done way back in dayze of yore as one string can be used on any number of bows by simply adjusting the bowyer's knot.

The bowyer's knot works well enuf ... BUT ... there's an even better/stronger knot - the Japanese Tsuru knot - and that's all I've been using for well over a year. 

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Shooters Forum here also. Thanks for the quick resolution. 

Quote from: Bowsey Wails on Today at 08:56:51 AMGood here now, Rob. Thanks!

Thank you, Sir, and sorry for the inconvenience to you and all Trad Gangers!

Good here now, Rob. Thanks!

Not a clue what happened, but y'all are right on - the Shooter's FORM board was offline for all but those with Admin permission.  I could not find a thing wrong with the database or that board or board permissions. 

I deleted all permissions for that board, reinstalled all permissions, saved permissions and I do believe whatever the heck those tweaks did fixed it and now that board should be available to all.

Please reply here if all is now okay with that board.

Thank you!

It looks great. I love the riser.
Dave.