My Custom Stabilizer Bar.

[Phizinza]

I do archery on the cheap. Although I do shoot a AR37 I got from the US. I decided to make a few things myself for it. I thought $80 for a 28" bar was a bit much. Anyway, heres what I came up with.
http://webmaster.beverleypaine.com/other/stabilizer_bar1.jpg
It is 31" long, it weighs 11oz (35" Easton ACE bar weighs 7oz) I made it out of 3 carbon rods (kite building carbon) and a alloy "towel rail" bar about 8mm in diameter. Got the lathe going and shaped up some alloy rould blocks. Used the drill press to drill the holes out the middel (marked by eye, very technical there.) And glued it all together with araldite. I made the thread in the end (part that goes on to the bow) out of a bolt and used a huge end of a bolt (cut off) with a straight cut in it as a grubscrew to hold the thread in. I also made the middel bit adjustible by useing 4 grubscrews to hold the carbon and alloy bars, which wasn't needed, but it would of been hard gluing there.

http://webmaster.beverleypaine.com/other/stabilizer_bar2.jpg

Anyway, what do you think? Its a tad heavy. After putting this on my bow (I used to have a 20" Shockwave on it) I got an average of 28 points more at FITA indoor. I am now shooting in the 530's.

[Eberbachl]

Looks nice. Good work.

Looks like a pretty heavy end weight...

;)

[Phizinza]

Yeah, I went over board with the size of the blocks. I could probably get an oz off the weight without to much trouble. But it works good. And theres more weight on the front then the back. I also put a threaded hole in the front end that will take the thread of another stabilizer. So I can put on another 20" rod it I want to, or I can put my super heavy 4" Cobra weight on it.

[Marcus]

The steel rod defeats the purpose of using the carbon rods. The idea is that it can flex.

[Eberbachl]

...ooh I didn't see the alloy rod in the middle.

That must be one heavy mofo!

[Progen]

Yeah, I went over board with the size of the blocks. I could probably get an oz off the weight without to much trouble. But it works good. And theres more weight on the front then the back. I also put a threaded hole in the front end that will take the thread of another stabilizer. So I can put on another 20" rod it I want to, or I can put my super heavy 4" Cobra weight on it.

Wouldn't that give you over 50 inches? You'd need a rope tied to your waist to prevent you from falling over once you raise that bow of yours. :lol:

[Phizinza]

Wouldn't that give you over 50 inches? You'd need a rope tied to your waist to prevent you from falling over once you raise that bow of yours. :lol:
The club I shoot at has a guy who uses a 45" bar. And his pretty good, but he is taller then me, somewhere around 6' 3" I'd say.

As for the alloy rod, it barely weighs a thing. Most of the weight is in the end bits. If I were to use a "steel" bar, I'd be insane. Anybody who uses that much steel on a bow would be Insane!

As I said before, it weighs 11oz, only 35% more then a $170 rod. It also has about the same amout of flex as the Easton ACE 35" rod, just a tiny bit stiffer.

[Patchy]

all in all well made, and as long as you like it thats all that counts :D

[Jay.G]

i like the look of it for a second there i thought it was the Carbon impact long rod lol :lol:

[Brocky]

looks good however will never work due to no manufactors name on the rod :wink:

[Phizinza]

looks good however will never work due to no manufactors name on the rod :wink:Hmmm... I'll have to get out the diegrinder and put a name on it....

[Progen]

Your username sounds plausible enough as a brand. Powdercoat the entire thing in black. I'm sure it'd sell better.

And don't forget to give a free sticker with every set.

[Robert43]

Have done the same thing a year or so ago made mine out of nylon have 2 10" stabs and the 30" ( can only find 1 ,10" stab)
I did this at work 1 day when I whttp://www.picturepuppy.com/images/robert43/img0039.jpgas boared<img

[Progen]

What's those silvery bits in two of the rods? Points?

[New Tricks]

Well, I think it looks the goods. Anything that gets you more points is obviously a good choice. Well done.

[Robert43]

Na just silver paint was to mark which rod when to the bottom due to the reason is I drilled + tapped the bolt about 5 degrees down :D
The rods are old arrows no longer used I also grubed screwed the parts together and glued, the 1st time I used it I didnt glue the shafts & on the last shot of the day the whole thing fell apart :(

[Phizinza]

http://www.picturepuppy.com/images/robert43/img0039.jpg
That looks a lot like one a guy I know made. I think he used very stiff rubber blocks and old cartel triples. He also has what looks to be about 5 pound of weights on the end :o

The reason I used 3 carbon rods and a alloy one was mostly because thats all I had lying around. I could go out and buy stuff, but why?? This only cost me about 4 hours of time. Other wise it was just made out of left overs from other projects.

[Robert43]

Mine was made up of broken shafts & 4 old arrows too soft a spine the rest work supplied :D

[Phizinza]

the rest work supplied :D
Isn't that nice of them... :lol:

[reversehaven]

gosh.. this is so cool. i've always wanted to be able to make my own equipment, but that's not merely so possible in singapore becuase getting the materials and the tools to make them are not easy.. and they cost a bomb.

[Phizinza]

I am kinda lucky because we inherited a lot of tools from my grandad.
So I have a lythe, drill press, huge bench grinder, and a huge collection of unsorted screws/bolts/nuts/washers... and so much more. And we're also lucky to have a 6m x 3.8m workshop to store all this in.
But from what I've seen of Singapore, you'd have to renovate your bathroom as a workshop.. :-? For some reason I would of thought things would be cheaper over there... A lot of the (new) bargain stuff on eBay comes from Singapore, I just figured things would be cheaper over there...