When I mount a strap-on type bow quiver onto my bow, sometimes there is excess strap hanging out when I’m through. Personally, I won’t cut it off, as I may use the quiver on another bow (recurve rather than longbow, perhaps) and may need the excess strap.
However, that little flapper-do can be a source of flapper-do noise when the bow is shot. I discovered this after “fixing” everything else on the bow and quiver to alleviate a bothersome racket. It seemed awfully loud to me anyway.
I’ve tried double-sided Velcro straps made for bundling wires, zip ties, and tape to hold the strap down. They all work, but this is so simple and easy.
I found these “Fuzz Sticks” in a department store hobby section once upon a time when I was helping with a grandson’s art project. We called them pipe cleaners in my youth. They are inexpensive, flexible, fairly sturdy, very easy to work with, and very quiet as well. I keep a few around for other little tie up jobs, or for a temporary zipper pull, if needed.
I take the strap excess and fold and attach it back over the pin. You need to push hard but it will attach and looks a lot neater than a fuzz stick. It’s quicker too.
Source capture of the dust produced by any manufacturing process is a standard safety protocol, meaning to arrange a dust or fumes hood directly as close to the source of dust or fume generation and then vacuumed away to a central unit with filtering baffles. This and encapsulating the sawing, grinding as Bobby described has literally “got it covered” pretty well so to reduce/eliminate toxic hazards. It used to be erroneously assumed that sawdust itself is a natural substance and no filtration was necessary, thinking that “we can cough it up and spit it out.”. Nothing could be further from the truth, as all wood and other dust can be harmful. And certain wood species are very toxic. We must protect our lungs with intelligent up-to-date safety measures from both organic and synthetic airborne particles. Spalted maple is very dangerous to work with, as it can result in deadly fungus in our lungs.
Looks like a Zebra. Louie was my grandfather.