Finishing-How you hold-um

[Millhimes]

Hi guys,I would love to know how you hold your bows while you are finishing them.I tried several different ways to hold a bow but need a better way for hand finishing and staining.Thanks-Joe

[Roy from Pa]

I clamp my BBO bows in a padded vice at the handle for final sanding. Hold them at the handle with a rubber glove when staining and applying tung oil. But I cover my handle area with a leather grip after sealing.

[Pat B]

I seal the handle area first and suspend the bow by the limbs up on blocks. Once the handle area dries I do the lmbs and ballance the bow on a block at the handle. I use 5 or 6 coats of
Tru-Oil for the finish.

[Pete W]

I brush the finish on the bow everywhere but a small place to hold it on the upper limb, then hang the bow from a thread of string material  looped over the top limb nock and then brush the bare area carefully while it hangs. Do this for each coat. The bare area I leave is just an inch or 2 .

[jsweka]

I hang mine vertically from a string and a "noose" tied around the string grooves on one limb.  I flip the bow and an hang it from the other end between coats of finish.

[K. Mogensen]

Originally posted by jsweka:
I hang mine vertically from a string and a "noose" tied around the string grooves on one limb.  I flip the bow and an hang it from the other end between coats of finish.

This.

[wookiewebster]

I also do like jsweka.

[Millhimes]

Thanks fella's.I have been hanging them also for spraying them but the hand finishes i always bump it somewhere.I'll try the holding it method and see what happens--Joe

[D]

I hang mine with a thin wire around the nock grove.  Its thin enough that it doesn't show up so I don't have to flip it around.