'twangquilizers'- "put the sound to sleep". taming your hard to silence bow.

[Zradix]

Cool idea Clint....good name too...lol

I know you listed a few different methods of silencing.
...did you happen to try Bowhush?
I understand shipping may be a problem...but maybe some local great quality wool yarn?

Every time I've used limb pads ( I tried quite a few types) they got "work hardened" so fast I'd have a loud bow within a couple weeks. I would assume pads would wear out even quicker on a static curve.

The bowhush just seems to last and last on my working curves.

...just a thought.

[ozy clint]

no i haven't tried bowhush or hush puppies. the problem with this particular bow is limb tip vibration. no amount of string dampening has any effect on stopping the tips vibrating as evidenced by holding the string after plucking and still hearing the noise.

i think the radical curve is more prone to tip vibration because there is alot of string in contact with the limb meaning the tips are free to vibrate without vibrating the string. string silencers can only dampen vibrations in the string portion between the points of contact with the limbs.  

bowhush will only quieten physical slapping of the string on the limb not the vibrations of the limb portion in contact with the string because in that portion, the limb and string are not moving in relation to each other once at brace height.

Great idea Clint!

Bisch

[frank bullitt]

Maybe this is one reason why natives here put horse hair on their bow tips?

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Great idea Clint.  Bow condoms....lol I love it!

[ozy clint]

i just run them with my chrono. based on a 10 shot average with and without. without was 1fps faster. remember, this is comparing averages over ten shots. there were shots that were faster with them on and vice versa. for practical hunting conditions the difference in average velocity is far, far outweighed by the benefit of a much quieter bow. at least for this bow.

[riser]

What is the inside diameter of the tubing, 1/2"?

Thanks for posting.

[bucknut]

Thanks Clint. I wondered when you were going to post the fix. I watched previous posts where you said you had the cure and would let us know.

[ozy clint]

buck nut- it took me a while to source some black tubing in the sizes i wanted. i didn't want to post pics of the natural rubber colour ones i used to at the start when i had the idea.

riser- sizing depends on the size of the limb tips. the border has small tips for a recurve and 8mm ID x 12mm OD works well. for my other recurve i used 3/8" ID x 9/16" OD

[3arrows]

ozy thanks for sharing the information.