I learned from observation, knowledgable advice and trial/error, but I've read that John Dudley has some good videos on his Nock/On series. Many of us have found the investment in a press, draw board, scale, tools, etc to be both rewarding and far less frustrating than driving our bow to a shop that is less than stellar in service.

 

I learned from observation, knowledgable advice and trial/error, but I've read that John Dudley has some good videos on his Nock2it series. Many of us have found the investment in a press, draw board, scale, tools, etc to be both rewarding and far less frustrating than driving our bow to a shop that is less than stellar in service.

Thank u for the info I’ll look into that

 

There are lots of good (and some not so good) videos on YouTube. John Dudley/Nock On and Inside Out Precision put out reliable info.

The Bow Shop Bible app isn't free, but it has lots of trustworthy info concentrated in one place.

 

John dudley knock on videos

 

If you want to learn to make your own threads, automan26 and Huntinsker have an excellent thread, “The Comprehensive DIY Compound Bow String/Cable Making Guide”. That’s where I learned.

 

It's hard to beat YouTube.. Spend some time on there and you will find channels that know what they are talking about. Lancaster seems to have a video for anything you can imagine

 

Sean's outdoors is a good channel for that on youtube.

 

Bowshop Bible App has helped me, YouTube has videos as well.

 

Average jack archery. You tube and also a member of this forum. I also have learned alot from inside out precision you tube channel

 

John Dudley has amazing content on this.

Joe Rogan build is a good end to end example:

This older JD series is super content rich:

 

I watched a lot of you tube and asked some questions here and there. The first couple times was pretty intimidating but after that its not that bad.

 

Podium archery YouTube channel as well just set my first bow up this year

 

JD as mentioned above and for arrows Tim G. on the gold tip you tube series, I still do bare shaft tune after paper tune.

 

cris bee got some good bow set up videos, some of the best i think

 

Good luck it’s way better to do it yourself, it’s sad that guys by $1000-$2000 on bows, plus the rest quiver etc.. you into that thing $$$$$ they don’t take the proper time to tune. I never seen a shop tune cams, check cam lean, clearance, all the fine details you should get dropping that kind of cash. Usually slap the rest on get a dloop shoot what ever arrow that is available get an okay tear, slap a site on and get a peep tied in. They need to slow it down snd send off their customer off for success. After dropping $$$$ it’s not like you going to drop another grand for a home shop that takes time to build.
Long rant i have more but I’ll stop. I’d like to see shops do more for new customers getting into archery and there success at the beginning.
Archery Talk is also good resource lol

 

Good luck it’s way better to do it yourself, it’s sad that guys by $1000-$2000 on bows, plus the rest quiver etc.. you into that thing $$$$$ they don’t take the proper time to tune. I never seen a shop tune cams, check cam lean, clearance, all the fine details you should get dropping that kind of cash. Usually slap the rest on get a dloop shoot what ever arrow that is available get an okay tear, slap a site on and get a peep tied in. They need to slow it down snd send off their customer off for success. After dropping $$$$ it’s not like you going to drop another grand for a home shop that takes time to build.
Long rant i have more but I’ll stop. I’d like to see shops do more for new customers getting into archery and there success at the beginning.
Archery Talk is also good resource lol

AMEN TO THAT

 

Bigal09.

When you are ready to do the first thing to your bow,
just ask. We can give you step by step instructions how to do whatever you might want to do to your bow. Everybody starts learning how to tune their setups, at home, for the whole family, by starting with a question.

 

T

Thank you

 

when i got into compounds i did a lot of reading and looking into the diy section on working on bows. my first bowpress i built my self using a turnbuckle cable. it worked good too changed my first string with that press still have it too, dont use it much anymore tho. i started small doing my own dloops, peep sight install, but the more i did the more i wanted to do. now i do almost everything tuning,strings and cables, yoke tuning .it takes time sometimes ill spend a week on a bow before i get it done, thats something a bow shop is not going to do, i spend almost all my time with my bows,i dont shoot my rifles much anymore since i got into archery. got tired of going to bow shops and paying for every little thing .then shoot a few days and a peep sight twist /then having to go back to have the shop twist the string. i remember a buddy of mine went to bass pro and had them set up his bow.he did not check it before he left.came home drew the string and the peep was twisted so bad he could not see thru it.. learn bud learn

 

There is youtube and there is a tuning section on here in the competitive archery section that has some good threads. Also Nuts and Bolts has an excellent comprehensive bow tuning guide on pdf if you like to read.

 

I started doing my own tuning when I was a teenager over 40 years ago. I got a T square, I had a knocking point crimper, and I had a portable string changer.

Back then, The only place to learn was from other archers, if you happen to see somebody doing it at the archery shop, or magazine publications of the time would have articles on all sorts of stuff like that. Bottom line, anybody can learn how to do it now with YouTube! Just a matter of buying the tools, watching YouTube, and then sitting out to try to do it. Fun stuff. Go for it I say.