What would you do ?

[Little Miss Purple]

Buy a new button - I can highly recommend the spigarelli

[Shirt]

So by that token, nothing should ever be modified even slightly.

Do you want to tell all the Koreans who have wrapped tennis tape around their bows that they're wrong, or should I?

Drilling the Beiter rest to accept a Shibuya button is something that has been done by many people, and all it is is widening a hole that is already there by about 1mm. It's hardly going to cause structural failure...

[Stace]

Originally Posted by Shirt

So by that token, nothing should ever be modified even slightly.

Do you want to tell all the Koreans who have wrapped tennis tape around their bows that they're wrong, or should I?

Drilling the Beiter rest to accept a Shibuya button is something that has been done by many people, and all it is is widening a hole that is already there by about 1mm. It's hardly going to cause structural failure...

I'm not against modifying something because there's nothing available that does the job, but that isn't what we're talking here is it?

By all means drill it, but when doubt creeps in it'll end up in the bin.

[Shirt]

Originally Posted by Stace

I'm not against modifying something because there's nothing available that does the job, but that isn't what we're talking here is it?

By all means drill it, but when doubt creeps in it'll end up in the bin.

But when what you've already got works fine, and the alternative is to pay 60 quid for a bit of kit that does exactly the same... where's the logic?

[Little Miss Purple]

The logic remains with each archer and how they feel - you need peace of mind and full confidence in your kit.

[JohnK]

What Shirt said. You have to be prepared to modify your kit, and it should be of no surprise to find that Beiter make their rest to fit their button.

[SLOWHAND]

The one bit of kit I've never regreted spending my hard earned cash on is a Beiter button. Before I aquired one (my first one was second hand) I was very sceptical about people paying 60 quid for a button but having used one, In my opinion they are worth every penny. They are better made, are more precise and more versatile than anything else I've ever used, and the calibrated click ajustment means that it is far easier to change from one type of arrow to another.

[Rik]

I have a shibuya button that I use with a Beiter rest. It didn't take more than a couple of seconds looking at it to figure that Beiter aren't stupid. They make the rest to fit their button exactly, but they also make it easily modifiable.

The 'take a drill bit to it' advice sounds scary, until you actually look at the rest. The hole through the middle is actually large enough to fit any normal button, until the surface is reached. At that point a thin skin of plastic re-sizes it to a Beiter button tip size. Placing a drill bit into the hole, from the back and giving it a single twist, by hand, removes that last bit of plastic. No big deal. No major modification. Just doing what was intended (I assume). Does anyone honestly believe Beiter would make a rest impossible to use with other manufacturer's kit...? Saying 'don't modify it' is a little like saying 'don't take the springy plastic bit off a Hoyt super pro'...

[Big Boy Blue]

Exacta mundo

[Radar_UK]

Sounds like drill bit it is then - my current button works fine and I was not keen to spend another £60 on a Beiter button unless I had no choice.

Thanks for the advice guys