home-made stabilizer...I need some ideas

[forced2workborn2fish]

the nearest archery store is 2 hours from where I live but there is a hardware store right down the road, so I want to make a home made stabilizer, if you have any ideas I'm all ears :eat:

[m gardner]

There's a guy older than me (hard to believe huh?) that shoots with a stabilizer he made up from a hardware store when he had gone to a shoot and realized he had forgotten his stabilizer. It is about a 1 inch piece of black pipe 6 inches long with a cap on one end and adapters on the other and a threaded stud in it to go on the bow. Pretty strange but he's used it for years after because he won the shoot.

[arrow32]

I have something similar on my bow that m gardner is talking about. I'll see if I can't get some pics up.

[Jeramie]

My brother made one out of bar stock one time. They turned it down and made some decent designs and the cut the meat out of the inside to lighten it. Drilled and tapped the end, put in a stud, the rest is history. It was a little heavy but worked fine.

I guess you could use some carbon pipe, pipe caps, and a bolt with two nuts. Drill through one cap, screw a nut down the bolt until tight against the head and slip through the cap (with the hole). Back up the far side with the other nut. Screw the cap assembly back onto the pipe and baaam.... you have the stabilizer.

The really cool thing is that you would have an empty pipe to stuff TP, matches, etc in like the old survival knives.

[forced2workborn2fish]

^^^^...I like the storage idea :cool2:

today I got a piece of pvc a couple bolts and some other misc. things so hopefully something will come of it.

[m gardner]

I work in a machine shop and made one out of brass and it had a very nice ring to it. Bad for hunting.

[forced2workborn2fish]

this is what I came up with, two pvc caps, pvc, and a bolt :gunsmilie: now I have to figure out what to fill it with...:eat:and paint it camo

[m gardner]

this is what I came up with, two pvc caps, pvc, and a bolt :gunsmilie: now I have to figure out what to fill it with...:eat:and paint it camo

Maybe some birdshot in the end and expanding foam to back it up?

[forced2workborn2fish]

thats what my father in law suggested. sounds like a good idea what is a good weight for a stabilizer?

[redkneck]

I've made a couple over the years, but I've always had access to a machine shop. Even made one that would hold a mag light for hunting predators at night. My advice would be to get one on eBay. You can get one delivered for around 12 bucks and will look better than most homemade stuff.

[buckee]

Fill it with large rubber washers stacked on top of each other. Good shock absorber..

[ChrisSeb53]

Fill it with large rubber washers stacked on top of each other. Good shock absorber..

I like that idea

[forced2workborn2fish]

I've made a couple over the years, but I've always had access to a machine shop. Even made one that would hold a mag light for hunting predators at night. My advice would be to get one on eBay. You can get one delivered for around 12 bucks and will look better than most homemade stuff.

I would but my budget is tight to the point that I'm making stuff for my bow lol...I like the rubber rings idea, I have a bunch of thick rubber bands maybe I'll try rolling them up and stuffing them in it

[Leo]

Honestly, I would just fill it with dry sand and balled up aluminum foil until it balanced right.

It will take some experimentation to get it right. I would start by packing the base screwed into the bow with aluminum foil. Fill with sand and check the balance. If it's too nose heavy dump the sand pack in more foil and try again.

A little bit of air around the sand is good for dampening. The sand needs to be able to move some and not tightly packed. That way the grains can bleed off some of the shock energy bouncing around in there.

Hope that helps.

[forced2workborn2fish]

thanks leo I think I will try that first :gunsmilie:

[Osceola Slayer]

the nearest archery store is 2 hours from where I live but there is a hardware store right down the road, so I want to make a home made stabilizer, if you have any ideas I'm all ears :eat:

Whoa! I would never suggest you make your own stab unless you have great experience (or work at sims or fuse).

You can get a sims or fuze stab anywhere from $15 and up, and they'res no way you're going to make anything close to the performance IMHO (all respect). You can have it delivered to your door through Cabela's or any online retailer, and you can also check ebay and get some good deals. If you want to make your own stab do it, but get another from Cabela's or somewhere you can return it if you don't like it. But I can almost guarantee you will. There's a reason they put so much R&D into their stuff, it works.

I remember when simms first came out with the limbsaver original, the simms rep came by the shop and showed it to os, we thaught he was high. He went out to his van and got an aluminum baseball bat, and I immed. unlatched the holster on the Kimber I wear at the shop (habit when I see any weapon). He comes in goes to the range and dropped the bat from 4 ft in the air, it was loud. He put an original limbsaver on the on base of the handle and repeated the process. It cut the noise by 75%. We bought 40 sets on site. The rest as we say is history.:rockon::clap:

[ckrich]

I've got a couple of archery shops pretty close by, but I'm cheap so here's what I did~~~~> http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1149843

Works pretty well

[Jeramie]

Shoot yeah! Those turned out good ckrich! Nicely done....

And welcome to the forums.

[ckrich]

Shoot yeah! Those turned out good ckrich! Nicely done....

And welcome to the forums.

Thank you and thank you. The did turn out fairly well. The only problem I have with them is the sqaureness of the bolt to the rest of the stabilizer. I don't have a mill, so I just worked the bolts over on a bench grinder until they fit the I.D. of the pipe. Couldn't keep em perfectly even, but they're good enough for me.

[buckee]

Honestly, I would just fill it with dry sand and balled up aluminum foil until it balanced right.

It will take some experimentation to get it right. I would start by packing the base screwed into the bow with aluminum foil. Fill with sand and check the balance. If it's too nose heavy dump the sand pack in more foil and try again.

A little bit of air around the sand is good for dampening. The sand needs to be able to move some and not tightly packed. That way the grains can bleed off some of the shock energy bouncing around in there.

Hope that helps.

Another great idea.