My advice is to just shoot off the shelf. You can still buy material on line for rest material. Also you should have a small piece of leather with a slight hump in the center. (I use a piece of thin leather that I glue to the riser with a small piece of toothpick under the center of i)t. And IMO you should be shooting arrows with feathers rather than vanes for more forgiveness. I haven't shot traditional in several years and desiring to get back into it. Its simplicity is pure and although it takes a lot of practice to master its like riding a bike. Once you've done it it just comes natural. I've shot instinctive for many many years because that's all there was in the 50s and 60s.