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roofus

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First Hickory Board Bow: Input Welcome!!
« on: December 23, 2008, 08:49:59 pm »
Here is a link to a photobucket. It contains pics of a Hickory board bow that I am making.
It is 66" tip to tip and backed with Kaki Slacks Material. I have it pulled to 56# @18" currently.
Shooting for 50-60# @ 28"
Thank you for your comments.
http://s287.photobucket.com/albums/ll124/roofus5/Hickory%20Longbow/

Offline koan

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Re: First Hickory Board Bow: Input Welcome!!
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2008, 09:14:54 pm »
Roofus, your tiller is lookin purty good, left limb might need just a hair more bendin just outside the fades but that could just be the angle of the pic. Go slow with long light scrapes from fade to just a few inches short of the tips...your almost there ;). Good luck....Brian
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Offline Jesse

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Re: First Hickory Board Bow: Input Welcome!!
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2008, 09:19:38 pm »
Looks real good. I think it should be bending a bit more in the outer limb on the right. could bend a bit more in the fade on the left as well. mid limb is bending the most. especially on the right but its looking real good :)
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Offline OldBow

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Re: First Hickory Board Bow: Input Welcome!!
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2008, 10:15:52 pm »
Post it on this site when you have it all done.
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: First Hickory Board Bow: Input Welcome!!
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2008, 10:30:35 pm »
Looks good but get more of that near handle wood bending to make what you need for your draw length. Jawge
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roofus

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Re: First Hickory Board Bow: Input Welcome!!
« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2008, 11:01:26 pm »
Post it on this site when you have it all done.

Will do!

roofus

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Re: First Hickory Board Bow: Input Welcome!!
« Reply #6 on: December 23, 2008, 11:02:32 pm »
Looks good but get more of that near handle wood bending to make what you need for your draw length. Jawge

I will work on it. Thanks alot to everyone for the advice! Priceless, I mean it.