I never needed an arm guard the last few years when I was shooting recurves. But I got me an R/D longbow this spring and the brace height is about 1-1 1/2" shorter than I was used to. It will occasionally hit my arm hard enough to leave a little red mark, but nothing extremely painful, so I wasn't too concerned with it. But the last week or two, I've started wearing long sleeve shirts a little and they were catching my string and affecting arrow flight so I decided I'd have to have an at guard after all. I finally dug my leather working supplies out yesterday (haven't used it in about a year because I haven't been building any knives lately). I considered doing the simplest arm guard possible since I needed it right away, but I decided if I was going to drag everything out, I might as well do it right. I sketched out a pattern on paper, cut it out, and tweaked it a little to get the fit right. As it turned out, I didn't have a single piece big enough, so I couldn't do one too simple anyway. I decided on a three piece design and did a basket weave pattern on the middle section, two tone color, and used some plain silver grommets for the lacing. Here's what I ended up with. I'm happy for my first one. You guys let me know what you think and what I could do to improve it. I think I would like an elastic band/hook closure better for easy on off, but I was using what I had on hand. Never know, I may fine tune the design a little and become a sponsor on here in a few years. I haven't been building knives lately because of the time required. Projects like this go a lot quicker.
Topic: My first try at an arm guard. Let me know what you think. (Read 435 times)
