how to make a cast replica of a grip on a bow so you can send it to your next bowyer.

[ozy clint]

the drill idea is a good one jimB. i would do that if i ever do another one.

[rbcorbitt]

If I were a custom bowyer that offered custom grip options, I would offer (for an added cost) the materials needed and the instructions to do this IN ADDITION to any other charges for making a custom grip.  Talk about a selling feature!!!

I cannot count the number of relatively new, high end bows that I have seen sold on Classifieds (I've bought a share of them          :p   ), that one of the main reasons that the lister states they are selling is because of the grip.

Bows are like anything else, there are a plethora of good, custom makers out there, and, unfortunately, a purchaser tends to blame the bowyer if the grip doesn't suit them.

SOOO, I see two logical choices - no custom grips (   :(   bad choice IMO), or, offer custom grip only if customer provides mold of grip that they like (again for additional costs associated).

Off my soap box now!!!    

[JimB]

Originally posted by ozy clint:
the drill idea is a good one jimB. i would do that if i ever do another one.

I wasn't sure how well I explained that.Sorry,this isn't a bow handle mold but one of a bear claw where you can see the "keys".In this case,I used the butt end of a Sharpie marker and pressed that in to the clay dam to make the female half of the mold key and the second half of the mold,molded itself to that.
 

[ozy clint]

because the floor of my dams weren't perfectly flat they key together nicely but that is a really good way of doing a proper job. thanks jimB.