The Order of tuning - from bare components to full set-up

[ugley_matt]

I'm getting back into the sport after a couple of years off and will need to go through the whole tuning and set-up again. One thing that i never quite got was , starting from and unstrung bow, completely new set-up what is the "correct tuning" process.
You have tiller, limb alignment, rests, sights, brace height etc, all of which affect one another, so is there an accepted order in which you do this? I've seen tuning guides before, including the one i used to use by Jim Park (?) but this starts from slightly further down the set-up line.
So from bare components, how would u go about it?

[Meddler]

I can't give an answer for this.... this is one of the questions I may be asking at the Wetherby exam this weekend!!!!!

[Meddler]

Virually every book I know will give you some idea of how to set up a bow...

Heretic Archer - Vittorio and Michele Frangili
Archery : The art of repetition - Simon Needham
Bow Tuning - Roy Matthews

And who could forget Murray's own "Archer's Reference"
Archer's reference


Easton Bow Tuning Guide

[pHz]

i think this is one of those questions where there are as many answers as there are archers

probably the three best starting points (failing speaking to a respected coach or experienced archer you trust) are -

the easton tuning guide - Easton Archery: HOME

the archers reference - d o w n l o a d

james parks tuning method - Tuning a recurve bow - Archery Forum

(personally i like the last one - with bits of the other two thrown in) but its horses for courses)

plus of course the books that meddler mentioned - i have heretic archer and the needham book and both are pretty thorough about tuning

slainte rob

[Jerry Tee]

SOME of the Easton tuning guide is a little over complicated but that is confined to the fine tuning sections latter in the guide the basic set up and bare shaft tune up to page six is OK

[MarkH]

No one has mentioned "Modern recurve tuning - Start to finish" by R A Cockrell. I was given a copy and must admit that although i'm familiar with recurve tuning, coming back after a 10year layoff has proved extremely useful.

[pHz]

Originally Posted by sp220

I would take the easton tuning guide with a pinch of salt...
There are some sentences in there which are noteworthy and can only be described as legendary..
I can't actually quote any exactly, but they are along the lines of..
"shoot at 90m till all the arrows group in the ten. This way you will know when you have the best knocking point position"
or something similar...
Its v funny

yeah - some of it IS a bit OTT - but less so if you read '90m' or whatever as 'whatever the longest distance is that you can shoot and still be confident of hitting the middle'

slainte rob

[Ceri Jones]

Originally Posted by pHz

yeah - some of it IS a bit OTT - but less so if you read '90m' or whatever as 'whatever the longest distance is that you can shoot and still be confident of hitting the middle'

slainte rob

20m it is then. lol

[ugley_matt]

Has anyone seen the Simon Needham DVD on bow tuning? Was thinking about picking it up