Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: bow101 on May 06, 2012, 05:01:16 pm
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I don't have a string finger guard.
Can anyone let me know the dimension's..?
I have the leather it's a matter of making one. ???
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You can make a pretty good pattern by working with light cardboard. Just cut away at the two holes until they fit your fingers. Then mark the cardboard in the outline of the three fingers you shoot with and split the notch where your two fingers wrap around the arrow. Transfer to leather and repeat.
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Thanks, but i was wondering what the dimensions are for the pattern, i don't if the photo that i have is Scale size..?
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The whole piece wouldn't be more than 3x4 inches. The idea of making it from light cardboard is to make the pattern you would then transfer to the leather.
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make the pattern you would then transfer to the leather. :: cheers i got that part
thanks for the dimensions. ;)
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How can we give you dimensions, if you don't know the size of your fingers? Such finger tabs, as I like to call them, come in various sizes. Small for kids, medium for small hands and women, large for most men, XL for large hands...you get the point.
Copy that picture into MS Word and enlarge it some. Print several sizes, each slightly enlarged. Cut them from the paper and test fit, to see which size fits your hand best. Then trace to leather and cut.
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It is called a finger tab. Go on line and check some styles. Jawge
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What JW_Halverson mentioned was correct size :) for me 3x4 inches.
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Ok so i built a finger tab, turned out really nice but "is the rough side of the Leather" supposed to out or in. And does it really make that much difference.
I made mine with the rough side facing in, towards me..! ???
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Smooth out is good. Jawge