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Little side project of mine I worked on for some of our JOAD kids who needed longer clickers. I'm a firm believer that a lot equipment could and should be DIY and not everything has to purchased at a premium price from manufacturers, especially for kids.

Tried the sight clickers before with the magnetic wire. They bounce around, vibrate, magnets fall out, wire breaks, ect., so not a fan for the money. I happen to work with some state of the art 3D printers so I modeled and whipped up this guy:


Accepts your standard blade style clickers, can be modified to accept any thread size. Made out of a premium material that is very rigid and durable.

And obviously, colors for the kids :)

Looking into getting sheets of spring steel and laser cutting clicker blades out of it to eliminate the need to purchase a clicker separately.
 
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That's great.
It might be good to put a bevel/gap facing the top half of the clicker plastic so that the arrow doesn't touch the bare metal as it's being loaded.
Having a wedge shape would make it easier to slide the arrow in and it wouldn't scratch.
 
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Great job. I guess a lot of great minds are thinking alike these days. Slicker clicker, then the AAE copy, and now yours. Can't keep a good idea down. About 6 years ago, I made what is essentially the top part of that clicker adapter for the sight extensions on Jenny Nichols and Staten Holmes' sights due to the design of the PSE X-appeal. One of the best parts of this sport is you can make a lot of your own gear if you're a tinkerer.
 
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monterey said:
That's great.
It might be good to put a bevel/gap facing the top half of the clicker plastic so that the arrow doesn't touch the bare metal as it's being loaded.
Having a wedge shape would make it easier to slide the arrow in and it wouldn't scratch.
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Huh, havent thought of that. The way I use it is I push the clicker open with one finger while simultaneously sliding the arrow under it. Thats just me though.
 
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And AAE just came out with their GOLD extended clicker, so there's definitely a trend to full blades on extended. I'm sure this would be fraction of that cost?
 
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I'm embarrassed to show what I've done in the past to make a sight mounted clicker. Let's just say it involved an Erector set type of mount that screwed into the aluminum arm of one of the kid's sights. It got the job done, but was ugly as sin. I have access to a 3D printer (but suck at design) so may have to print something up like yours to keep at the club just to have on hand for those kids (and people) to use for longer arrows. Being able to slide the extension where needed would be far more versatile and cause shooters less frustration (and we instructors as well.)

While composing this, I jumped over to Thingverse and found a fully 3D printed clicker (minus the screws) that bar mounts. Found a couple of them actually. All said, I like the design of yours better since it's more of a mount rather than a full clicker. Please let me know if you decide to share the file :)
 
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Speaking of ugly as sin, made this a while back for one of the kids at my local range. She had the AAE extended clicker that mounts on the sight bar, but couldn't use it because of the combination of really long arrows and having to move her sight bar close to the riser to shoot 70m. I took design cues from wrap-around rests and the AAE micro clicker. Used a dremel on a thin sheet of stainless, stuck the pieces in a bench vise to hammer out the bends. That thing was LOUD.

 
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