Shelf Question

[tim roberts]

This is in reguards to the selfbow that I posted about eariler.  Last night I put a piece of Bear Rug on the shelf, and the bow was a lot noisier, I am getting an arrow hitting the riser noise.  So I took the rug off and it went away.  I would like to have something on the shelf, as wood on wood is noisey when the bow is being drawn.  Any suggestions?

Thanks,

[Jeremy]

Just a thin piece of leather works well for the shelf and strikeplate

[Rain Man]

It sounds like you might need to adjust your nocking point on the string because the thickness of the rug threw off your tuning.  Did you try moving your nock up?

[tim roberts]

Haven't set a knock point yet, have been playing around with it.  Have been shooting with the knock at about 1/8-1/4 above center..........