Essentials for home bow shop?
Equipment
I am building out a home bow shop at my Ohio farm. So far I have a harbor freight cabinet, LC EZ Green press with draw board, and an OMP 360 vice. I also bought hand tools.
What else do you guys recommend? Post pics of your setup please!
A good arrow spinner, arrow cutoff saw, and fletch jig are also essentials for me.
One of those little magnetic bowls for dropping little screws and other fasteners in.
A serving jig and a variety of serving thread diameters.
Hamskea 3rd axis level and an arrow level.
No longer have a setup, but 2 things I loved in mine were a peg board and hooks, then one of those little plastic drawer set. Lots of slide out small drawer for screws , tips etc
Serving tool is close to necessary. String jig if you are going to make strings (i just buy now)
Everything I need in a small package, the archery design draw board is the newest addition, I also have a Amazon bow vice which is excellent
Good headlamp, 2X and 3X reading glasses. Extendable pocket magnet. A half decent four inch swivel vice.
Too bad you already bought the OMP vice, because the Baker Archery Products vice is way easier to use, especially for leveling the bow and bubble adjustments, third axis. I built a copy with a few improvements and did a thread on the build. Can't imagine anything being better.
Arrow fletching jig, arrow shaft cutoff tool/machine, a bowstring jig, bowstring serving spinner, nock point piers, and brace height T-square ...
Also an 8" grinding wheel comes in handy...
An articulating magnifying lamp comes in handy occasionally.
Agree with Ambush on the BAP vise.
I have a setup much like Carcus has. That rolling work bench is awesome for storage and convenience.
I would post a picture of my setup but it always looks like someone just ransacked my house.
I have hunting clothes hanging on my press right now, Mark. lol
Paper tuning setup with bag or block target.
Small magnetic tape measure you can stick to front of press. Also a good magnetic light.
You’ll need a good arrow saw. A squaring tool. Arrow spinner. A few bow hooks to hang your or your buddies bows from. A couple lighters. Serving material in few different diameters. A hand held bow scale. Top hat tool. Paper clips to hold new strings/cables from untwisting as you put them on.
Bubble levels - 2 or 3 types.
A little tool box to hold your most used tools. D-Loop material. Crazy glue and slow cure 2 part epoxy. Paper towels and acetone. Allen wrench set - metric and American. Star wrench set. Razor blades. Needle nosed pliers. Nock pliers.
Chronograph. Paper tuning station. Draw board.
Blood just mentioned the Chronograph, Paper tuning station.
Good way to tell if something is off if the fps changes. Also fun to test KE with various arrow weights etc.
YouTube running Levi videos for “how to’s..
a bench top propane torch. used to use it a lot for hot melt but, it has other uses around a bow shop.
I really want a Legacy bow press. Expensive but it does a lot of stuff.
Arrow grain scale and chronograph
I guess it depends how far your into them In your hunt camp but I use a good set of snap on seal Picks a lot for taking loops off cam button restringing so on a good light as mentioned above, have to have a paper tune setup of some sort after that it’s just convenience tools an at home shop should have a chrono IMO and a good scale to check overall arrow builds to check runout on components so on
Well not being a wise guy but a good chair for buddies to come and visit and discuss hunting!
Beer fridge :) to go along with those good chairs
um, glasses, I have a pair of reading glasses everywhere now!! Not sure what happened, but can't see a thing without them!!
Vise, fletching jig, serving tool, string loop material are the most used items for me.
Great suggestions. Thanks everyone.
Have a good vacuum for your cut off saw. That dust is bad stuff
Those of you that build your own arrows, have you ever tried to remove your inserts or outserts if you used super glue or epoxy to install? I now use hot melt so i dont have that problem anymore..
Yeah. I use a good 2 part epoxy and glue everything together. I want the strongest adhesion possible for extreme hard impacts. I can tell you that I’ve tried multiple methods to remove an insert, 1/2 out, collar system…..and it doesn’t work. It just ruins the carbon. But I’ve heard some people like to use the good hot melt if they aren’t that hard on their arrows and want to change out stuff.
I have been able to remove some inserts if someone used a fast setting super glue. And you can just crack the glue and the insert will come out occasionally.
Figured the arrows and inserts are forever married.. thanks
Kimsha hot melt is the way to go IMO.
I use hot melt all the time. Used epoxy once because I ran out of hot melt. I did remove the inserts using a drill bit but it about ruined my shoulder. lol I vowed to never use epoxy or superglue on inserts again.
