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Looking to make Hickory style warbow at TN Classic?

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nickf:
Dtiller,

some dimensions for a warbow; for your first (couple) make it 78" long for a 32" drawlenght, 76" for 31" draw and 74" for a 30" draw. It's better to keep the belly flat on these whitewood warbows since they tend to crysal when made rounded.

1 1/2" at the handle tapering to 1" thickness at 10" from tip, then tapering to 1/2" wide nocks.

for the thickness I'd want to start with 1 1/4" at the fades, and 3/4" at the nocks. Enjoy!

Nick

D. Tiller:
Thanks for the info! That should do it. I will go with a flat belly design to keep it from cryslaling. Still similar to some of the rect. forms marry rose bows I've read about so I will be happy!

David T

nickf:
yeah, you could use the mary rose examples as well. but keep the belly flat ;)

nick

Marc St Louis:
Actually it is not likely that Hickory will chrysal and even though I have never made a Hickory warbow I have seen the odd one posted here over the years.  I have made a number of HHB and Elm warbows though with a D section and none have chrysaled.  Hickory is very strong in compression so if you start at 1 1/4" thick you will have a fair amount of wood to remove. 

I made a 120# @ 32" HHB warbow 73" long that had a final width of about 1 3/8" and thickness of about 1" at the center.  Hickory is stronger in compression than HHB so that should tell you that a Hickory bow will be slightly smaller in dimensions.  You cannot compare Hickory to Yew as the compression strength of the Hickory is much higher and that is what will determine the final dimensions of your bow

Badger:
    I don't think I would go over 1 1/4 wide for an 80# hickory elb, it would likley jar your teeth pretty bad. Steve

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