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Re: Fantasy bow reality (reply) Yes, very nice! Can I as a couple questions? Did you use the basswood just on the ears? Any tricks for keeping such a narrow, curvy bow from trying to twist or roll? That's something I have issues with, but easily cured with reflex or... |
Archery - Composite Bows | 04/13/13 6:49 PM |
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Re: I need bow backing help (reply) it kinda would but only if you are just messing around. You can get away with amazing things if you are dealing with super light draw weights or whatever..... But then it's not necessary. Cable- backing with string would be a better bet... |
Archery - Primitive Bows | 04/12/13 9:23 PM |
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Re: Sinew back molly Question (reply) Sinew backings stretch to add weight, and the working limbs are thin back to front, so I wouldn't worry about the bow failing, esp with the hickory under the backing. I think it just took set from being so narrow in the working limb,... |
Archery - Primitive Bows | 04/12/13 8:40 PM |
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Re: The "Green Man" (reply) Looks very nice! Just the right amount of set, and good profile both ways.. |
Archery - Primitive Bows | 04/12/13 8:27 PM |
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Re: circular limb cross sections? Why, why not? (reply) Nathan, if the bow is long and the wood is good, I'm not too surprised, although I would almost certainly not chosen that style if I was the builder. Although bowtoxo mentions only the one example from Europe, Nicole was correct... |
Archery - Primitive Bows | 04/12/13 8:24 PM |
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Re: Need advice for my first stave bow (reply) The stave will yell you what bow to make. At 2" dos you have plenty of good elm there, but have to adapt your design to it. Personally, I prefer a bow that wiggles side to side over one that wiggles back to front. Gives my eye fits... |
Archery - Primitive Bows | 04/12/13 7:54 PM |
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Re: understanding (tip) leverage and compound velocity (reply) Let's break this down to a thought experiment: So, say we have two bows, with exactly the and total limb mass. One is two long, stiff poles, and the handle is a stiff spring. One is two flexible poles that bend evenly, set in a metal... |
Primitive Flight Shooting | 04/02/13 8:40 PM |
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Re: First bow, tillering advice? (reply) Here are some tricks, though. Flip the bow rapidly side.to side, or top to bottom while looking in a big mirror. Take a partial draw pic and load it to computer, then use Paint to draw straight lines and circles.to compare the bow to.... |
Archery - Composite Bows | 04/02/13 6:29 PM |
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Re: First bow, tillering advice? (reply) For some reason, I can't see your images. |
Archery - Composite Bows | 04/02/13 6:17 PM |
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Re: Alaskan take down Molle, Kentucky style (reply) To.cut cane, get one of those cheap cable saws, with split.on the ends. Worked for me, because it cuts slowly, and cuts much of the diameter at.once. |
Archery - Primitive Bows | 04/02/13 6:09 PM |
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Re: Favorite Style of bow (reply) I ruin so many bows. Even though I know a lot about it, I still don't always succeed. Just recently I destroyed the best stave in my shop, just because I was curious, a clean reflexed piece of mulberry heartwood, 70 inches long. So, my... |
Archery - Primitive Bows | 04/02/13 5:40 PM |
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Re: apple wood question (reply) I rough out almost everything, because I seem to have terrible luck with almost all woods warping like heck around here, and lateral warping into a big long severe curve is one of those few things that will make me toss a stave out.... |
Archery - Primitive Bows | 04/02/13 4:31 PM |
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Re: removing twist question (reply) Clamp.it free, but thin the limbs, following the twist, IE. parallel to the back, as much as possible. 30* isn't a ton, so I do his, but I also often don't worry about it, either. I clamp anyway, because around here, EVERYTHING seems to... |
Archery - Primitive Bows | 04/02/13 4:23 PM |
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Re: Legality of material collecting (reply) Lot's of sources for wood out there. I also.have offered a bribe to land developers and arborists that if they work on a suitable tree, call me and I'll go look at it and see if a thing is good. I basically have gotten ALL my mulberry... |
Archery - Primitive Bows | 04/02/13 4:09 PM |
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Re: plan for bow #2 (bow finished! photos! riddle of set solved!) (reply) If you make a molly soon, start wide at the lower limbs, get them thinner than the lever and consistently thick, THEN tiller from the sides. I find mollies easy to tiller because it visually divides itself into segments for me, and the... |
Archery - Primitive Bows | 03/31/13 8:55 PM |
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Re: plan for bow #2 (bow finished! photos! riddle of set solved!) (reply) Ok, lot's to answer her, but first, I think building a pyramid bow was a great idea. Understanding the principle behind the design helped me understand all designs. If a hickory bow took that much set at that draw, width, and limb... |
Archery - Primitive Bows | 03/31/13 8:42 PM |
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Re: hunting arrows? (reply) Look down the dowels and see if the grain lines run full length. If they do You are ok. Poplar, birch, Ramon, have made good arrows for me. Spine tester is tricky, but all you really need to do is find an arrow, length, and head... |
Archery - Arrows & Quivers | 03/30/13 10:18 PM |
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Re: My arrows are acting all weird but in a good way! (reply) And look more than you cut. |
Archery - Arrows & Quivers | 03/30/13 9:45 PM |
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Re: Keep Calm (reply) Love it. |
Shooting & Accuracy Information | 03/30/13 8:56 PM |
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Re: Heavy-spined bamboo? (reply) Ikto, that is very Into. Do you know if your friend in his testing used shafts of similar weight and spine. I'm assuming he matched spine, but I know POC has a very high stiffness to weight ratio, and bamboo/cane seem stiffer for... |
Archery - Arrows & Quivers | 03/30/13 8:42 PM |
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