first bbi attempt (fail...mabye)

feeds@yuku.com (tunaboy) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:17:27 GMT

today i saw that i have quite a few gaps and spaces absent of glue. can i mix a batch of hide glue or titebond3 with sawdust to fill the gaps, or should i just pry off the bamboo and start over? as usual all tips help and insight is welcome thanks.

would elm be a good back for ipe?

feeds@yuku.com (WesleyDS) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:50:49 GMT

I want to make an elb and have both ipe and elm. Would this be a good combination?

complete beginner

feeds@yuku.com (jamesw) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:50:20 GMT

i am very new to bow making so it these questions are commonly asked, forgive me.

i have free access to English oak and ash so i can mess as many bows up of these woods as i like. i have heard lots about ash bows so i know you can use it but i find it difficult to tell the difference between the heart and sap wood but dose this matter with ash or do you not have to worry about it and just use the heart wood?
also can English oak be used for bows at all because it seems not to...

Best commonly available woods for hickory backed longbows?

feeds@yuku.com (kiltedcelt) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:22:13 GMT

I'm going back to basics here. I want to build a pair of twin bows for my wife and I. I've been experimenting around with a bunch of stuff and the fact is, neither of us is a very good archer. We're both beginners, having just started shooting early this year. I want to build us a pair of solid easy-shooting bows. I have some hickory backing strips 1/8" x 2" x 72" cut from a piece of bias cut hickory. They have grain lines running in parallel lines down the face of...

crossbow

feeds@yuku.com (bullseye) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:29:04 GMT

i was wondering
i would like to make a crossbow made from some kind of horn or bone , it needs to be short but carry a lot of power
it should eventualy become something like this : http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/runescape/images/5/5e/Hunter_cross.PNG
what would i use to keep it not to big and how to make it ,
thx in advance
peter

Tillering help with lemonwood/hickory ELB please!

feeds@yuku.com (newbow) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:13:32 GMT

I last posted about a month ago when I was starting my very first bow - a linen backed red oak flatbow. I was slowly starting to tiller it, when I received a very kind gift of a half finished english longbow stave of lemonwood backed with hickory. All I need to do is finish tillering it and finish it off. Of course, given that someone else has already put a lot of work into it, I'm more worried about getting it all wrong than I would be if it was all my own work...

Urban Abow?

feeds@yuku.com (blair) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:14:48 GMT

This might be a faux pas on a primitive forum, but I've been watching a couple of YT vids in which people have made bundle bows from white plastic plumber's pipe. I was looking at on old inner tube after this and thinking bow backing or bow wrap and then a saw a frayed blue flat nylon (?) crate binding and thought fibre backing. Has anyone evere made a bow out of modern scrap? Given the opportunities available in a modern urban setting, would paleolithic people still use wood to make...

Idea for all-wood composite with attached siyahs

feeds@yuku.com (snedeker) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:42:48 GMT

Hi. Have never posted here before (except back in the old days before there was a composite bow forum). 8 years experience. I have been thinking about trying a first horn bellied asiatic. A thing that seems challenging is putting on the siyahs and transitioning them into the bow.

As practice, I was thinking of doing an all wood project with attached siyahs. Say 59" long overall, black locust core, thin ipe belly lam, some reflex but not as wild as turkic because of the...

Wood species questions

feeds@yuku.com (Mr Kinjo) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:03:22 GMT

Hello

I have some questions about differnt wood types.
Such as padauk, bubinga teak and chestnut.

Species of these I can get with questions:
Burmese Padauk (Pterocarpus macrocarpus) sg 0.81-0.9

Is this same wood used by most bowyers? or they using African species?
Has anyone use Burma species? How does it perform?
Is this wood suitable for belly material?

Bubinga (Guibourtia...

Bow made from strips?

feeds@yuku.com (Telfer) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:58:48 GMT

One thing I havent seen yet on these forums is a bow with limbs made entirely from 1/8" thick strips of the same wood.

Do they exist?

Pros and Cons?

Got any pics?

Picking out bamboo for a bow?

feeds@yuku.com (Flint Kemper) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:17:24 GMT

Is there any info out there in regards to picking out suitable bamboo for bows? I have heardd you need to look for bamboo with good Power Fibers and also that each piece of bamboo should be hand picked for the back, core and belly of a all bamboo bow. Any help would be appreciated on what I need to look for. Thanks Flint

Sinew bow

feeds@yuku.com (chimistul) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:56:05 GMT

Hi all!

This is a small sinew bow that I`ve done last week as present for a girl. the bow is dogwood backed with two sinew layers. 52" long ntn, 32" maximum drawlenght. 24#@28" - 147 fps at 13.7 gr/lbs. Some pictures:

Sealer for BBI?

feeds@yuku.com (Mnthunter) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:22:08 GMT

What type of sealer are you guys using for BBI? I have finished everything but the sealer and was wondering what most of you are using?

Hickory backed Ipe ? ... Darn it ...

feeds@yuku.com (Jorgumund) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:53:57 GMT

I got some more Ipe today and this is particularly dense stuff, even by Ipe standards. I'm staring at 8 staves, 6 foot long, 1 and 1/4" wide and 1" thick.

Now, I have some bamboo so in a few weeks time expect another BBI... thread

I've been thinking (on a weekday as well) about the possibilities of a really tight grained Hickory strip of 3/16" thick to back one of the Ipe staves and make a...

Perry Reflex warbow

feeds@yuku.com (lacroixjp) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:18:43 GMT

Interested in trying to make a Perry Reflex Warbow but have a couple of questions:

1. How do you get the d shape (rounding of the edges) into the backing since you are glueing on in a prestressed position...or am I too wooried and the small amount of shaping on the backing side is inconsequential.....or do you not add the rounding of the edges on the backing side??
2. What methods are you using to hold the the blank in the prestressed shape to allow you to glue the backing??...

Greenheart anyone ?

feeds@yuku.com (Jorgumund) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:25:56 GMT

I've posted this in the Primitive Bows section, but it makes sense to ask in here as well since many of you seem to stay more or less in this forum. My apologies if this is considered cross-posting and is in any way against PP rules:

A friend of mine (surprise, surprise that I do actually have one ) has offered me some Greenheart. It's old stuff from a fishing rod manufacturer, probably 40 years or more...

urac 185 and heat treating

feeds@yuku.com (The Burnt Hill Archer) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:25:49 GMT

ive got a hickory/osage bow that came out a bit light. i was wondering if i heat treated it if it would weaken the glueline. i had heard before that you can heat urac and it wouldn't soften, but i just wanted to make sure.

Thanks!
Phil

river cane

feeds@yuku.com (knap123) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:05:53 GMT

i cut this cane yesteray. will it work for backing and how to prepare it?

Heat tape

feeds@yuku.com (johnwarns) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:52:16 GMT

Any thoughts on the use of heat tape in place of a hot box.

Latest project. Bamboo, ipe trilam.

feeds@yuku.com (burnie000) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:08:41 GMT

Started this bow in spring, but didnt get to finish it due to the fact we moved this summer. I finished it up about two weeks ago and took her out for opening day last sat. Didnt see any thing but small bucks, so I will see what we can get next weekend.

This bow is bamboo backed Ipe trilam. It is 65" ntn. 62lbs at 28". A real snappy shooter. It is made of bamboo, ipe, osage. The tips are ipe, osage, and whitetail deer antler. The tip pics never work out for me....

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