Alternative, slimmer Fairweather Barebow-tab ring

I am an avid archer, archery-coach and -trainer. I shot many styles of bows (recreational and competitive) but mainly stick to barebow. Wisdom comes with years, I guess ^^

I recently bought a Fairweather Barebow-tab. These are excellent quality and the used leather is superior to all other types of leather I ever used: does the job as it should .. and VERY! consitent.

However, I have smaller hands and found the tab a bit “bulky”, big in my hand. Therefor it was not perfectly easy to use the stringwalking-technique, AND to bend my fingers easely around the string. I thought a slimmer finger-ring would help to position the tab deeper into the hand.

And as I recently learned to print with TPU on my trusted MK3s, it was a no brainer to design a fitting but slimmer ring for my FW-tab.

I designed this in fusion360 and made different sizes of the ring.

IMPORTANT:

• check out the fairweather-website. All my credits to them. I would never discovered the excellent quailities of kangooroo-leather without this tab.
  https://www.fairweatherarchery.com/
• Also, check out their page on sizing:
  https://www.fairweatherarchery.com/sizing
  (bottom of that page)
• !!! I noticed that the FW-rings are a tiny bit wider then the marked measurements.
  A Fairweather 22-ring actually has an inner diameter of 22,5mm
  My rings are however the exact diameter, so a 22 is actually exactly 22mm
  Maybe this is due to different manufacturing: 3d-printing versus molding ??
• I have some experience with different types of TPU.
  I printed my rings out of Fiberlogy Fiberflex 40D and they came out perfectly “rubbery”
• Printing these rings out of PLA is absolutely a bad idea. They will break too easely. (I tested!) Maybe PETG might do better.
• you will NEED to use supports when printing these rings … and TPU-supports are a pain to remove to my experience, I know :( 
  Pitty. 
• I you don't have smaller hands, please do buy the original FW-ring. They are better quality, smooth, fancier, …  then a 3D-printed one.

PS: the new ring suited perfectly for me and indeed does what was intended. I can now use this tab much more easely :)
Happy days.