This is just something i found out that may help some people out.If you make a feather rest and you make it just a bit wider that the originals , when an arrow lays on the rest it sinks down just a bit and the extra feather on the outside sticks up just enough to keep the arrow from falling off as easy.I know people that shoot a lot know that comes from finger pinch on the arrow knock but if you are dealing with newbies or you wife or kids that it helps keep down on frustration for them until the learn not to pinch the nock.IMO, the feather rests work great and actually even hold up very well.Nice and quiet too.
Matt

That's one of the reasons I like Trap's feather rests!!

I burn/cut mine at a slight angle so the outside is slightly higher than the inside. Keeps the arrow on very nicely. I also alternate RW and LW.

Raghorn has the right idea.  Jack Howard used to make his tapered so that the outside is higher.  He also used six feathers, 3 right wing and 3 left wing.  Makes a big difference over rests tat use all the same.

I spent a lot of time talking with Jack in the years leading up to his death.  I believe that I got the last feather rests that he made.  He used the combination of right and left to make it a little stronger. He would make them different for left hand or right hand.  You can see in the photo of these two from Jack how the feathers push in toward each other.  I agree with Trap that the angle of the rest does hold the arrow in place very well.  

     

Thanks guys! Yall always amaze me at the history you have studied on even the simplest things Bear.One of my 59's came with what looked like a new feather rest already on it.I just assumed it was one of Traps.It was fairly level across the top but it is not a problem for me.My wife on the other hand, has a fit with the arrow falling off the shelf on her bow and is why i messed around and came up with a wider one for her bow.

Kituwa, it's not so much we studied it.  Many of us lived it back in the 60's.  

Phil, in the 60's i used a stick with bailing string on it that my grandpa made me,lol.Later was a solid fiberglass bow that i thought was great and shot that for years before i got a real bow.Here in the deep south it dont seem like archery was as common back then as it was up north.The ones of us that bow hunted down here didnt have much help from others, it was just trial and error, mostly error,lol.When i shot my first deer with a bow i was famous in our community.No one but my friend and i hunted deer with a bow and everyone thought i was nuts until i actually got a deer.Nowdays trad archery is still almost unheard of here.I see that there are a few guys from trad gang in my area now but i have never crossed paths with them yet.Almost everything i learned about bows as a teen was from outdoor life magazine and a few books.And my hero as a young teen?  Patric McMannus who wrote a column in outdoor life,lol.

Trap,one of my 59 polars has the original coin and the other has a replacment that i think came from you as far as i know.They are not exactly alike.Thats not a problem but i was just wondering if there was more than one style of flat coin or if you made it diffrent so that its not a 'counterfit'?
I need an aluminum one for a 59 alaskan too, i just have a nickle that i filed down to fit in it right now.Do i get them from you or is there a dealer i go through?
Thanks,
Matt

I dont make and never have made coins.  

Trap

Oh ok,,my bad,lol.Thanks anyway.

This is your man for coin work.

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