Quieting a takedown

[ibehiking]

I've been working with one of my tskedowns to get it quieter. I've played with brace height, arrow selection, put wool string silencers on the strings and wrapped the string ends with wool (Bow Hush) style. Everything is pretty good except for a low "thrumming" sound. I can get the sound just by plucking the string a little bit. I know something is still vibrating so I've tried gripping the string, and gripping the limbs. Gripping limbs kills the sound immediately. What is the best way to get rid of some limb viration? Should I try limbsavers? If so, how do I choose the best placement before finally attaching them? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[wingnut]

Most of the limbsaver installations I've seen are right at the fade of the limb wedge.

Mike

[billy shipp]

I can't stand limb vibration. I gripe about it on bows that others never notice.

The biggest help I have found is to change strings. I have 2 very well know, and highly thought of recurves, but they have limb vibration.

I changed to an 8 strand D97 string with loops padded with 16 strands of Dacron. I've been doing this on Dacron only bows with no ill effects, and thousands of shots.

I'm not recommending you try it on a non FF bow....just saying what I do to eliminate limb vibration.

[Tom]

Try sting wax on the limb attachment pads, takes some of the squeak out of my t/d's.

[Bowmania]

I say keep working on the string.  Put silencers in 6 spots.  Three up and three down.  Your trying to get rid of oscillation.  Two helps, but not like 6.  I've found it's rarely the joint.

[Hatrick]

I've done the same as Billy. I made a couple of 8 strand D-97 strings and padded the loops up to 18 strands and it has helped a good bit. I could care less about any anticipated gain in speed. It was the noise reduction that convinced me to go in that direction.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

try mole skin in the limb pocket. That might help some.

[cacciatore]

Billy you have a PM,Felix

[cacciatore]

Another good way is to pad the limbs where it contacts the string,some moleskin for example.

[30coupe]

Originally posted by Hatrick:
I've done the same as Billy. I made a couple of 8 strand D-97 strings and padded the loops up to 18 strands and it has helped a good bit. I could care less about any anticipated gain in speed. It was the noise reduction that convinced me to go in that direction.

Me too. I have also put a very thin piece of doeskin between the limb and the riser (another potential source of vibration). Even some one piece bows have more vibration in the limbs though. On those, the skinny, padded string and some cat whiskers does the trick for me. Bow Hush is the real deal for recurves IMHO.

[Curtis Haden]

There's a lot of good advice here already.  I'm not suggesting anything to replace string silencers or padding the limb/string contact area, but the biggest factor in getting a bow quiet (IMHO) is brace height.

I start with very minimal silencers on the string to get rid of obvious string noise and keep raising the brace height until I get rid of any noticeable limb vibration.

Many times, I've had to go well beyond the recommended brace height, especially on bows with wide, thin limbs.  Don't forget that string tuning will have an effect on your arrow tuning!

[legends1]

One thing ive seen alot is,if you have a leather quiver that mounts under the limb bolts,somethimes they become loose.There are wounderful quivers out there made that have this type of mount.You just need to check the limb bolts from time to time.Also another cause is like Mike mentioned.The area between the limb and limb bed.We use a layer of silcone.Looks like a sheet of plastic.Can be cut to size with scissors. You can buy it at Micheal's in a sheet.It is waterproof and wont wear.About limb savers.I dont see a need for it,and most i have seen used they have mounted them in the wrong location.If you do want to use them they should be mounted right st the end of the wedge fadout.Not in the middle of the limb.

[threeundr]

Lot's of good advise here. I have had good success with limbsavers. I start about 3 inches above the fades. When I put them on I don't press them down very hard. Just enough to get them to stay while I shoot a few arrows. I then proceed to move them up the limbs towards the tips in 1/2" increments until the sound goes away. Sometimes I go to far and have to back up a little. When I find the sweet spot then I press them on firmly! Just my two cents, I hope this helps.

-Leonard-

[ibehiking]

Thanks for all of the advice. With a brace height of 7 1/2", bow hush on the string ends and a total of 4 puff ball silencers it got tolerably quiet. Still not perfect, but acceptable. I tried the TunerZ limbsavers but they did not seem to help regardless of position. Some inner tube material in the limb pocket was also tried but did not seem to have an effect. I did not try the skinny string yet.

Thanks again for all of the advice. Happy holidays to everyone.