Archery tab

An archery tab is worn on three fingers of the string hand while shooting a recurve or longbow.  I had bought the cheapest one I could and found it was too thin--my fingers hurt for two days.  I didn't have any leather at home, so I used a two-layer approach: denim plus webbing, both from our scrap collections.

I've used this quite a number of times.  It's ragged around the edges as can be seen, but shoots fine.  The webbing is from a discarded child seat, I think, and it is very nicely slippery lengthwise but not transversely.  (That might help with release in some way.)

Step 1: Cut denim

I used scissors to cut a tab shape, copying the inadequate one I had bought, from denim from some old jeans in a scrap drawer.

Comments

[audreyobscura]

E-6000, one my favorite adhesives. Does the string slip on the webbing at all?

[arpruss]

The string should slip very nicely on the webbing. The webbing is slick when you run your finger over it lengthwise, but is non-slick across. (This no doubt depends on the weave.)

I used to use Shoe Goo for such projects, but I had a tube of E-6000 this time. Don't know what exactly the difference is, besides labeling.