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BE1 3d printed "Epoxy" style rest.

13K views 148 replies 34 participants last post by  GaryBriggs  
#1 ·
Long story short, I met a guy through work that has a 3d printer. I was instantly intrigued and expressed and intrest in having a rest made for my BE1, since I can't get an Esper rest for it. So today I brought the guy my bow, showed him my epoxy rest, and asked him if he could duplicate something similar.

We popped the epoxy rest off my bow, he's going to print me one up tonight as a favor. If it works out, I could have a batch printed up, however I'd have to make a dozen or 2 to keep the cost per rest reasonable. This would include the materials, his programming and machine run time. Is there any intrest in a group buy "epoxy" style rest for the BE1?
 
#41 ·
The middle is my epoxy rest, here's what the look like right off the printer before polishing/smoothing out. I'm going to grab some double stick tape and test it out after work today! I guess we could call this the glue on version. Which is how I held my epoxy rest on.

 
#61 ·
this will work... this is how I polish acrylic duck calls... go thru the grits of steel wool and then hit them with the torch... if call parts coming off the cnc then all you have to do is hit with with the torch... now I do use a smaller jewelerys torch because of the inside of the call... after that they are pretty polished but I like to hit them with a cloth roller and diamond dust... but we are talking about a bowfishing rest not a high dollar shelf queen custom call....lol...
 
#56 ·
I just took about 100 shots in the back yard with one installed with double stick tape, the results were very positive. The left-right was perfect, no kicking what so every. If I was to leave it I'd have to move my nock point up a bit, mainly because the double stick tape is kinda thick.

I'm going to sand one down, polish it up as best I can, and stick it on with a dab of silicon and see how it works out!