I have two recurves with leather rests, two recurves with Bear hair rests, and an R/D longbow with Velcro. I find them all to work great. All my recurves are older models with flat shelves. On one, I cut two long skinny pieces of about 8-9 oz leather, then used an xacto knife to taper them down on either end and glued them together on the shelf. Made a nice little radius like you see on newer bows. I topped that with a thin piece of soft black leather (like you'd use on a bikers vest) with the back side up. Very quiet. Velcro is definitely the easiest to install and the cheapest.