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Main Discussion Area => HowTo's and Build-a-longs => Topic started by: JW_Halverson on December 15, 2012, 10:48:26 pm

Title: Stringkeeper
Post by: JW_Halverson on December 15, 2012, 10:48:26 pm

In my attempts to educate and elucidate I am sure mostly I will obfuscate and confustulate.  That being said, here's the answer to those of you that hate it when the string slips off your lower limb and you lose that exact braceheight when the string inevitably untwists slightly. 

(http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo100/JW_Halverson/Bows/bow%20accoutrements/Picture001-1.jpg)

Another view:

(http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo100/JW_Halverson/Bows/bow%20accoutrements/Picture002-1.jpg)

Title: Re: Stringkeeper
Post by: JW_Halverson on December 15, 2012, 10:49:31 pm

Step one!

(http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo100/JW_Halverson/Bows/bow%20accoutrements/Picture003-1.jpg)

About 2 square inches of leather.

(http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo100/JW_Halverson/Bows/bow%20accoutrements/Picture004-1.jpg)

Fold corner to corner and throw a stitch in it to hold things together.

Title: Re: Stringkeeper
Post by: JW_Halverson on December 15, 2012, 10:51:41 pm

Fold the third corner down and throw a stitch on this too!

(http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo100/JW_Halverson/Bows/bow%20accoutrements/Picture005.jpg)

Coupla more stitches...try not to sew this into your finger.  Don't ask me how I know this!   >:(

(http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo100/JW_Halverson/Bows/bow%20accoutrements/Picture006.jpg)

Hehehe, kinda looks like a finger puppet owl!

Title: Re: Stringkeeper
Post by: JW_Halverson on December 15, 2012, 10:53:52 pm

Then hustle up a thong or some cordage and poke it thru a hole in the last and final corner of your square of leather.

(http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo100/JW_Halverson/Bows/bow%20accoutrements/Picture007.jpg)

With a button or a bit of deer antler to tuck under the loosened loop of the bowstring you got her done!  So simple a caveman can do it.  Don't tell the Oooga Boooga Rollcall I said that, they ain't evolved a sense of haha yet.

Title: Re: Stringkeeper
Post by: Knoll on September 18, 2014, 11:49:22 am

Thanks for taking the time to share.  This lil design is far better looking and practical than the ugly things I been using.

Title: Re: Stringkeeper
Post by: John D on September 26, 2014, 11:56:30 am

Thanks JW; this is cool.  I'm going to ask the obvious, but this thing comes off when you string the bow, correct? 

I think this will work well for my girls' bows.  The twins especially mix their strings up on occasion when the fall off.  Then dad is re-tying boyer's knots  ::)

John D

Title: Re: Stringkeeper
Post by: JW_Halverson on September 26, 2014, 08:42:32 pm

Yup, just fit the boot over the tip of the bow, afix the button under the loop of the loosened string and tighten it up.

Title: Re: Stringkeeper
Post by: Danzn Bar on September 26, 2014, 09:33:29 pm

 8) JW..............
DBar

Title: Re: Stringkeeper
Post by: JW_Halverson on September 26, 2014, 09:44:42 pm

I just think it is funny to finally get the first comment almost 2 years after posting. Always said I was a man ahead of his time.

Title: Re: Stringkeeper
Post by: Danzn Bar on September 26, 2014, 09:51:07 pm

The post must still have merit.... :-\
DBar

Title: Re: Stringkeeper
Post by: John D on September 28, 2014, 01:45:28 am

Quote from: JW_Halverson on September 26, 2014, 09:44:42 pm

I just think it is funny to finally get the first comment almost 2 years after posting. Always said I was a man ahead of his time.

 :D

Title: Re: Stringkeeper
Post by: bubbles on September 28, 2014, 02:15:48 am

Nice...its always such an annoyance, even when  your top loop slips down too far.

Title: Re: Stringkeeper
Post by: swamp monkey on October 11, 2014, 08:11:35 pm

Oh now that is handy.  I have some scrap leather just begging for something like that.  Thanks for sharing.