Handles

[medicinewheel]

pat!  -  i do the same thing but using cork from (cork-plates); i just glue on whatever material is needed and file it down to desired shape! seems to work easier then leather.
this handle here's been done that way, build up with cork on belly and back (the wrapping is rattan with leather-dye finish)

i have another-one in the works right now; i'll post pics later!
frank

ps: mark, this thread was a good idea! hope many of you'll participate!

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[Pappy]

I don't try and get mine center shot but I do eliminate some of the fad out on the top limb
arrow side and increase a little on the other to move it over some,with the snaky stuff I
usually use most people never notice.I sometimes cut a small shelf but mostly just take it out
of the sight window.I put a piece of leather or wood under the grip for a shelf.GregB has
started doing what Ryan dose by leaving the handle full with until tillered and then cutting
them to center and I know they are nice to shoot that way but I am so use to shooting a non center bow I don't think it would help me much.I may try that some day just to see. I
know it will change your shooting,when I use to swap back and forth from a center shot
Recurve I would shoot the recurve 3or4 inches to the right and when I picked up my self bow I would be left till I got use to one or the other.I try and make all of my bows about the same
so there isn't much adjustment  when shooting a different bow.I swap a lot.
Pappy


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[AndrewS]

Most of my last handles I built up with cork.
I gave them the right shape and after that I covered them with leather.

Sorry, no pics, but my camera isnt ok.

[welch2]

Here is the braided wire handle my brother made for my son's bow last year.





Ralph

[Jesse]

   nothing special about these. They work good for me               

[Marc St Louis]

All are really nice handles. Naturally I prefer my own but then don't we all . These are good examples for newbies.

[Sidewinder]

Yes Marc they are very helpful. I am young in this interest and I am currently trying to decide what handle style I like the best. I obviously want something that is comfortable, consistent to grip and I am leaning a little more to the centershot simply because it eliminates the spinning issue, which as I said before opens up alot more primitive shafting options. Your handle design looks like it is centershot. Is it not? If its not it can't be that far off.  I hope that more peopl will post thiers so we can get more variety. Danny

[DCM]

I prefer slightly bulbous and either overlap wrap like the old Bears or a ribbon wrap like JD Jones.  Arrow pass if there is one built out in leather.  Skived on all edges. 

Wish I could do those nice lace jobs ya'll do.  Good looking stuff.

[whatareyadoin]

I did it the way you said