I just use wooden Shaker pegs from Home Depot.

 

I built one by ripping 2x4's in half and epoxied pieces of old aluminum arrows in for pegs. Basically built a square frame then spaced out the pegs, nothing fancy.
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I have a collection of blackpowder rifles, lots of homemade surf fishing lures and hand wrapped surf rods, hand forged knives, and a large collection of trophies for blackpowder and archery competitions. At one time or another I had displays of this gear. Now I store this stuff in boxes and cases and the walls for framed pictures of my photography or paintings. The wife is happier and with Covid hardly anyone is ever in the house to see any displays.

If you do decide to display bows, I would recommend spending a little time making attractive hanging brackets, may be out of antler or ornate wood. Do it right or not at all, which your wife will probably prefer.

 

Do it right or not at all, which your wife will probably prefer.

Bit strange this thing of assuming that we're all guys, that we're all married to women that don't do archery, and that women are only into pretty. It's 2022, not 1950. FWIW I am a guy, my lady's a good archer, and very practically minded. We work out how to store our bows together, and the kid's. There also appears to be women into trad on this forum - sometimes wonder how they read some of these posts assuming we're all dudes!

 

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Coat racks turned vertical.. can be found in the Walmart home aisle for about $10-12 each. They also usually have a 6-peg version for a little bit more. I want to get them stained, but I’ve been lazy about the subject, and they work. 🤷‍♂️

 

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So. You keep your bows Strung, 24/7 ?

 

I use the one from 3rivers. Wouldn't be hard to make if you want to save money. Had mine maybe 6 years or so and works great. I got the 8 bow model like the one pictured.

 

This is what I built...

I have space to add one more peg at the top. I have an ILF that I'd like to get off the guest room bed... maybe some day I'll get around to it.

 

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Simple S hooks, the sort butchers use, hanging from a wardrobe rail in shade. S-Biners also work, basically the same but with a clip. Very space efficient and purely practical. Bows hang from where string meets limb.

The bows I am shooting on rotation stay strung, which is completely fine because all of them are laminates or monolith carbon. I've had some strung for a year or more a time. Unused bows are unstrung and packed away.

 

Reclaimed barn wood rack my dad and I made for some of my bows a few years back. I plan on plasma cutting a hunting scene on stainless to mount in the open area in the center at some point.

 

Reclaimed barn wood rack my dad and I made for some of my bows a few years back. I plan on plasma cutting a hunting scene on stainless to mount in the open area in the center at some point.

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Beautiful set up.

 

This was my first rack I made when I only had one bow, a piece of nice wood abd some antler tines.

Now I have this set up on my wall.

Although I'm already thinking of a 3rd version, incorporating arrow storage and a shelf for arm guards and tabs 🤔

 

Great ideas, building a rack this weekend. Thanks for the thread.

 

Wouldn't hang them up by the ceiling, have had friends that did & delaminated them just hanging there. I have recurves that have been strung for years & weight them & no change, always make sure hanging by string so no torque on the limb tips.

 

Definitely hanging from string is preferable. Don't want weight of own bow and quiver pressing down on itself. IMO hanging from a single hook where string meets limb is ideal. It's a tension point the bow's built for, and being vertical shows the bow as we understand it in hand. Can stand back and look at it top to bottom. Bows aren't horizontal in use.

 

You all have some nice racks!

 

Horizontal wood gun rack holds unstrung recurves bows nicely.

 

This is ours. Not wall mounted but stands near the wall.

 

Now that's a rack of bows.

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I use (2) 5 lb command hooks to hang them by the string. Not glamorous by any stretch, but it’s cheap and works well. Plus it’s not too hard to move them around if need be.

 

Hey, pretty new member here, not assuming anything about anyone, FWIW. Just posted this on the non-trad side of things, please don't flame me since there's a compound in the picture.

As mentioned in the other post, just got tired of vintage bows lying around the room. Also wanted vertical storage and whether strung or not. I also tend to leave them strung, except for the 50's lemonwood longbow on the right. You can really see any limb twist when they're hung like this!

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Hey, pretty new member here, not assuming anything about anyone, FWIW. Just posted this on the non-trad side of things, please don't flame me since there's a compound in the picture.
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As mentioned in the other post, just got tired of vintage bows lying around the room. Also wanted vertical storage and whether strung or not. I also tend to leave them strung, except for the 50's lemonwood longbow on the right. You can really see any limb twist when they're hung like this!

Scottie

Crap, that is two of the Shakespeare Siera X-18 The most sought out bow they made, also the most common model, but I wanted at one point a Left side due to being highly left eye dominate but was not willing to pay as much as new cheaper ILF bow hunting riser that is shot off the riser and limbs bought separate to be $200+. The other bows are nice as Shakespeare bows are the least likely of the old vintage bows to have warped limbs unlike the Bear laminate limbs or about 1/2 of the Ben Person laminate bows. I would not leave the bows strung as that is a good way to lose poundage or mess up the fiberglass on old bows, even if the limbs do not warp due to being the wide Shakespeare bows. The Indian or York in the Red is the model is okay to have strung up as that is an all fiberglass bow, all fiberglass bows without lamination are safe to leave strung up.

My dad did this with his Shakespeare Targetmaster in the 2000's something I knew not to do and the bow now has a problem with the limbs only having a short draw back to 35 pounds but some now highly bent limb tips that help have a very deep Brace Height so somebody with long draw to 29 inches can draw it just fine but not people past this as the limbs make an odd sound past this in good weather.

 

Regardless if your wife shoots she still wants her house organized and beautiful…if you’re going to build a half a ss rack to hang on the wall she’d rather you jam them under the bed.

 

Nice collection you there👍