Box for Recurve

[Foam Steak]

For those of you who sell a lot of bows, especially recurves.  Where do you find boxes to ship them in? I have cut apart refrigerator boxes and made my own before, but I was wondering if there was something better out there these days.

Thanks

[sleepyhollow]

How about flower boxes from the florist, cut two ends and slide together

[Mojostick]

Don't use a box at all. Bows break in boxes. Go to a carpet store and ask for a heavy duty tube, then cut to size with a hacksaw.

[snag]

I usually get the drain pipe at Home Depot. Not the PVC, but the thinner stuff. It is strong and all the recurves I have tried just squeeze in there wrapped up. Cut to size and put end caps on it.

[Jack Shanks]

Foam Steak,

I have bought over 200 bows in the last year and a half and sold many myself. While I'm certainly not an expert I do have some experience with boxes.

If you would like my box making instuctions I would glady send them to you in an Email. Takes about ten minutes to make a good box using my method.

Jack

[snag]

Can you post them Jack for all of our benefit? Thanks, David

[joekeith]

yeah, inquiring minds wanna know, and me too..  

[Jack Shanks]

David,

They are picture instructions that I would first need to download the pictures to Photo Bucket and then re-write. I will get around to doing that at some point but for now I can Email them to anyone that is interested.

Jack

[Bladepeek]

I'd sure appreciate a copy of the instructions. I'm going to be selling 4 bows and sure would like to do it on the cheap if I can build a solid container.
bladepeek@chartermi.net

Where are you in MI, by the way? I live in Greenville, 40 mins N of Grand Rapids.

Ron

[Archie]

I discovered a fantastic way to ship a bow.  It takes some messing around, and cost me about $8, but was worth it.  

I went to a home improvement store (Lowes?) And bought two of the 4' long, cardboard tubes that are used for forms to pour concrete in, for concrete posts.  I made one full-length lengthwise slice in each of them, so that I could curl them more tightly.  I then took the first one, tightened it to fit the bow, causing an overlap, and taped it in place.  After a little dinking around, I slid the other one inside the first and taped them at a good length.  After making a couple of end caps, I had a super strong, somewhat light tube that was big enough for a recurve.  (A carpet roll tube was too small to fit the recurve inside safely.)  Hope this makes sense.

Archie

[Bjorn]

It depends on the bow.............some will easily fit into the triangular boxes you get for free from USPS or Fedex-the Fedex box is slightly larger. Some recurves will fit in tubes; but more often or not you will need to use a box that was made for whatever, or make one.

[Foam Steak]

Thanks for all of the input guys.

[d. ward]

I buy new unused arrow boxes and tape 2 together.That stiffens the middle of the box where they generaly get bent.That works real good for me bd    

[WildmanSC]

Originally posted by Jack Shanks:
Foam Steak,

I have bought over 200 bows in the last year and a half and sold many myself. While I'm certainly not an expert I do have some experience with boxes.

If you would like my box making instuctions I would glady send them to you in an Email. Takes about ten minutes to make a good box using my method.

Jack

Jack,

Wow!  Now I have somebody else to reference when people kid me about all of the bows I've bought, sold and/or traded.  I'm at 150+ over a 10+ year period.

Thanks!        :D        

Bill

[WildmanSC]

Originally posted by Archie:
I discovered a fantastic way to ship a bow.  It takes some messing around, and cost me about $8, but was worth it.  

I went to a home improvement store (Lowes?) And bought two of the 4' long, cardboard tubes that are used for forms to pour concrete in, for concrete posts.  I made one full-length lengthwise slice in each of them, so that I could curl them more tightly.  I then took the first one, tightened it to fit the bow, causing an overlap, and taped it in place.  After a little dinking around, I slid the other one inside the first and taped them at a good length.  After making a couple of end caps, I had a super strong, somewhat light tube that was big enough for a recurve.  (A carpet roll tube was too small to fit the recurve inside safely.)  Hope this makes sense.

Archie

Archie,

I agree with the carpet tube.  Too small diameter for most recurves and also for some of the more radical hybrid longbows.  It does work great for a lot of longbows though.  I might add that most all of the bows I buy or trade for are T/D bows.  Therefore, I often can get an arrow box to work just fine after I wrap the riser and limbs individually in foam wrap.

Bill

[Jack Shanks]

Archie,

I'm probably approaching 250 but have lost count. I know that I have around 150 Bears in my collection and have sold numerous duplicate, non Bears and models I'm no longer collecting in the last eighteen months.

I did post a seperate thread with my recurve box making instructions but it should be moved to the How to Forum. I'm hoping one of the moderators will jump in and do that as I'm not sure that I can or at least I don't know how to.

[Ringneck]

I bought one of Jack's Kodiak Hunters and his box made it here fine and then it headed out to New Mexico with one of my bows inside..