Cougar Mag

Man, I am really out of the loop. I used to work on all my bows, that is when you could take them down and wrestle with them on the floor, but always worked for me. Don't own a nice press, should get one but maybe later on. Anyways, since I am picking up a binary cam bow........just exactly what does a draw board look like and how does it work? All I can picture in my mind is a 2X4 with a winch on one end and a post of some sort on the other end[&:]. As you can tell I haven't visiting the shops much the last couple years.

Arthur P

You really are out of the loop, cuz draw boards - or tillering boards - have been around for hundreds of years. Here's a video of a guy explaining how to use a tillering board. Of course, he's using it for making stickbows but it's the basically the same rig for compounds. You should be able to see enough on the video to figure out how to make your own, if you want.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FxSVwom4OY

Cougar Mag

I have been shooting bows since 1976 and have NEVER seen one...........at least that I know of[&:]. Maybe I did and it is so simple I didn't pay attention.

walks with a gimp

Here's the one I made.

walks with a gimp

Checking the cam sync on my Admiral..

im ocd

I've been a bowhunter since 1995, been reading bowhunting magazines since then too. I've been on one archery forum or another for 3 or 4 years: this is the first time I've seen or heard of this.

Cougar Mag

Thanks for the pics WWAG, thats exactly what I needed to see. I might make one this week, got the materials except for a winch. Could store it in the garage easy enough.

walks with a gimp

I actually made this one about 4 years ago and used it some for my then new Patriot Dually. I then loaned it to a new up and coming archery shop. He then bought a Hooter Shooter and gave the crank board back to me, just in time to tune up my new Admiral

Have fun building one!

muzzyman88

They're not hard to build. I built mine from a treated 6' 2x6 I had laying around. You need a big pin of some type, a turnbuckle sleave for fine tuning a boat crank.

One thing to remember is to offset the crank from the pin where the bow goes by a couple inches.

MGH_PA

Yeah, it's one of the things I need to get around to making. Right now, I simply use a j-hook in a ceiling joist to check cam synch. I want to set one up with a digital scale scale to find/tweak my holding weight as well.