Can I see your bow rack?

[edge2009]

Saw a nice bow rack at a raffle during my last bow shoot. Got me thinking, I would like to tackle building one... Would be an awesome "off-season" project.

Plus gives me a reason to fill those empty positions!  

[Alexander Traditional]

I've got one in the works. I'll post up some pictures of my progress. It's far enough along you can get the idea.

[rmorris]

Mine is just 2 coat racks hung horizontal about 2' apart, kinda boring, but I am building one for my office that is a slab with live edges  and some 1/2" dowels sticking out for the bows to hang on ( saw the idea on here a while back). Will post pictures when I get her done.

[Goshawkin]

I'm not a good carpenter,so I took the easy route. Piece of maple,door hinge pins,rubber tubing and some epoxy,done.It's got 16 pins on it.

[Bongos]

[Jim Picarelli]

[northener]

Here's a couple I made.

[Bladepeek]

I showed a horizontal one I made and got jumped on because the support pegs were too far apart - "a modified gun rack". Seems conventional wisdom says they should be no farther than the fades.

Any bowyers willing to go out on a limb and comment on that? I personally find it hard to picture a modern bow that can remain strung for long periods of time during hunting season being warped, weakened, or otherwise deformed by its own weight when supported evenly on level pegs. With self bows I could see them taking a set, but glass backed?

I'm thinking about making a "prettier" rack soon, so how about it, you makers of all these beautiful, super-performing laminated bows? Help me out.

Sorry if this is hi-jacking a thread, but I think the original poster would appreciate some guidance too.

Ron

[RM81]

Here's the one I built.  Should have either built two of them or added space for more bows.

[Alexander Traditional]

[Alexander Traditional]

This is the one I have in the works. The dowels will look like arrows and they will have notches cut in them to hold a few arrows,mostly for looks.

[edge2009]

No Ron, I agree... good info to have, especially when planning to build one. Great racks by everyone one.

I like the ones with a interior glass case behind where the bow(s) hang. I however am thinking of using cork board on the back to hang up misc. pictures and score sheets from shoots, etc.

I really enjoy seeing all the diff. designs, thanks guys and gals, keep em coming.

[xtrema312]

How is hanging a bow vertical much better than standing them on the floor, which I hear is very bad and will warp limbs? I would think most of the bow's weight is vertical and on the lower limb tip.

[Bongos]

you kind of answer your own question, because the weight is on the lower limb when standing verticle, in time, the weight of the bow will cause the limb to twist in a certain direction (specially recurves), I think longbows are less prone as they are more linear.  Reflex deflex designs will be similar to recurves.. I buy used bows all the time and 80% of the time, the bow is left standing in the corner of a closet and have limb twist, some are not as evident, you have to string them up to see.

[Danny Rowan]

Couple of pics of mine, none of those bows are still on it though,got 7 different ones on it now,LOL.

[GrayRhino]

Here's one I made last year for my boys' bows.  I've added some adhesive soft-side velcro to the cut outs for the bows to rest on.

[Bladepeek]

Originally posted by Bongos:
you kind of answer your own question, because the weight is on the lower limb when standing verticle, in time, the weight of the bow will cause the limb to twist in a certain direction (specially recurves), I think longbows are less prone as they are more linear.  Reflex deflex designs will be similar to recurves.. I buy used bows all the time and 80% of the time, the bow is left standing in the corner of a closet and have limb twist, some are not as evident, you have to string them up to see.

I believe the question is a valid question. If you think about it, even when hanging by the string near the upper limb of the bow, the entire weight of the bow rests on the string attached at the lower nock - only 1/2" higher than the end of the nock.

[Bongos]

Eventhough, with the bow suspended,  wouldn't the string be in the string groove, so even as the weight of the bow is concentrated on the lower limb nock, the weight is distributed evenly through the curvature of the limbs where as if the tip is in contect to the ground, the weight will be weigh down in a direction not parallel or linear to the limb...

[Hopewell Tom]

You have the right idea, Danny. Build a rack with extra space. You're "forced" into buying more bows to fill it up.
Could be trouble though...

[Bjorn]