DIY ARCHERY BUILD | PAPER TUNER

What is going on everybody? Welcome back to another video. We are going to be building a paper tuner. This is probably one of the most important things I think every archer should have in their garage, other than a bow press, but not everybody has a bow press. This thing will tell you so much about what your bow is doing in relation to the arrows in your form that it is a vital tool to have. You don't have to go all the way down to the pro shop every single time. A lot of the things you can do just by shooting through paper in your garage and making minor adjustments. If something's really whacked out then I recommend going to a pro shop. So follow along because I'm going to run through real quick all the different pieces you're going to need, how fast it goes together, how it goes together, how I use it for my particular setup, and how you can use it for yours, and why you should have one. Be sure to like this video, subscribe if you haven't already, hit that notification bell, and let's get started. All right, let's go over what you're going to need. I already have everything pre-cut, all of my vertical pieces and the pieces for my window frame that's going to be holding the paper. I have cut 18 and a half. Okay, so we're using 3 quarter schedule 40 PVC. You're going to need one tube or one piece of half inch, also cut at 18 and a half. I'll explain why you need that later. We have part of our base frame, we have four pieces cut at eight inches, and then we got some middle pieces here cut at three, two of those. Our legs, I don't know how long these are cut at, but you're gonna need two of them at 38. Now mind you, this just happens to work with the setup that I have, so the legs you have might be different. The fittings, we got two three quarter by three quarter by half tees, again that coincides with the half inch tube or half inch PVC, four three quarter tees, and we have six three quarter 90s. Obviously you're going to need some sort of a cutting utensil, saw, I like to use PVC cutters, they make life so much easier. Sharpie and a tape measure, a hammer to give it a little bit of love, and obviously your butcher paper. I'm using the Reynolds Kitchen butcher paper, the pink stuff. This stuff works really good. I've tried wax paper and parchment paper in the past, and it just doesn't show very good tears. It's kind of inconsistent. So one of the things you have to take into consideration is the width of your paper. I have here 18 and an eighth, which is why I cut my pieces at 18 and a half. There's two factors that go into the size of your paper tuner. One is going to be whatever worktop or benchtop you're going to be using with your targets. Try to be as parallel to the floor with your bow hand, and then also the height of your target. That's going to dictate how tall your window frame is for your paper, and then the width of your frame is always determined by your paper that you're going to be using. So let's get building. We're going to start with the base, and then we're going to work our way up with the legs. I'll show you why we have the half inch fittings, and then we'll make the frame. What I'm going to be using for clamps, I just had these cheapy, I think they're like two or three dollar spring clamps from Home Depot. This whole setup here costs you, or it's going to run you about 50 bucks. So it's actually a pretty small investment for the longevity you're going to get out of it. A roll of paper will probably last you, I mean if you're doing it at your house, probably last you a lifetime if you're doing it right. So we're not going to need this stuff, since everything's already cut. What we are going to do is, we are going to start building. So build one side of the legs here, so you guys see 190, 1T, this T is going to be 90 degrees to your elbow. Don't push them in too tight, because then it gets kind of hard to it's kind of hard to move. You always hammer everything in after, after everything's all squared up. That's one leg right there. All right, and then get two of your 18 and a halves. Put that together. There's our base. Then you can go ahead and throw your your legs on there. We'll set that aside for now. Okay, now we'll make our window frame. So again, you're going to take the same 18 and a half, and it's going to be a square, so you don't have to worry about getting them mixed up. Like that. Then you're going to run just your regular 3 quarter T on the bottom there. So this is our window frame for our paper. So it's going to be right inside there, all the way up. All right, so now you're going to want to put your little three inchers in. Get those on. Now your three quarter by three quarter by half. The reason why we cut them at the dimension that we did was because we want this piece of butcher paper to actually go inside just like that. So what that's going to do is that's going to allow us to use our clamps to come in the outside and clamp right here on the three quarter elbows. So let's get our tube. Have you used just regular three quarter T's? It is too big to go inside this particular piece. There we go. Okay, just like that. I don't know if you guys can see, but here's the base. This guy will go in there. Now I'll turn this so you can see. Get our clamps. I don't know how long that took, but I think it was like maybe five minutes. Bring this one up. As long as you can clamp from the top, it doesn't matter. There you go. You get yourself a paper tuner. So we're going to set it up, make sure our heights are good, and then want to shoot an arrow through it. Let's just double check the height here. Now another thing you want to keep in mind is the distance you have in between the target and the paper tuner. So you're always going to want to make sure that you have enough room that you can set up your target and your tuner to where there is no contact with the target until after the arrow is passed. And I mean that's like an inch, so that's fine because it won't make contact. Because sometimes in these foam targets or bag targets, once that arrow hits it can kick because it can find a channel and it might give you a messed up tear and you're going to be chasing your tail thinking there's something wrong with your bow when there's actually nothing wrong with your bow. It just happens to be the target's too close to the paper. So let's give this thing a couple shots. Looks like we got a bad tear. We now have something to work off of. All right I'm going to work on tuning my bow now because obviously I have an issue. But thanks for watching. Hope you guys enjoyed the video and be sure to like and subscribe. Catch you on the next one. I just shot that arrow again and I got a bullet hole. Must have just been the way I was shooting or releasing. So I might just be a hair knock right. I mean like fractionally which will be just a little bump of the rest. I don't think it's enough to warrant uh shimmy the cam. So I'm not going to deal with it today. I'll get a fresh start tomorrow. Shoot a few arrows to warm up and then shoot through paper again. But I don't really think I'm going to mess with it. It's not as bad as it was tearing earlier.