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tpoof:
Well guys, major changes in the Elm flatbow!
Its more like a 56" semi recurve now! :o
Chopped down the tips and that threw the tiller out the window, so retillered to 28" and then built this caul, just guesstimated the proper curve, (really not sure if it is proper) and put the heat to her! Went slow at it and it all curved really easily it seemed, never used no crisco ;D, and no worry about the charring that I thought would happen.
I even thru it on the tillering tree just to have a quick look and it gained quite a bit of weight!
Tiller looks not too bad either, I'll post up some full draw shots when I get there.
Here's what it looks like for now!
I keep telling myself "its just a hunk of wood" lol
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mnewcomb59:
I like it! Those big curves look like a pretty radical r/d design. But, the real question is where did you get all them arrows? Holy crap! Im lucky to have a full dozen sometimes...
tpoof:
Those arrows are a story in themselves!
My wife and I used to shoot trad archery for Team Sask quite a few years ago, we went to alot of competitions and shot all over the province and Canada. The wife took to the bow like a real natural and won almost every comp she entered!
She had her pic taken by the local paper one year and it was of her shooting her bow and talk of how I build arrows and stuff and awhile later we get this phone call from an old lady.
She goes on to say how her husband died quite a few years back and he was into archery and if I liked if I wanted to come and look over some of his stuff!
Duh! Ya !! ;D Went over to her place and we get to his archery room and it is filled with stuff!, shafts of all kinds, quivers, longbows, recurves, fletching jigs, feathers, tabs, everything!!! I was in shock of it all!
She asked what I thought of it and I said that you can plainly see he was a man who loved archery and thought that she should put the gear in a museum or something! Alot of it was history itself!
She looked at me and said that I reminded her of her husband with my enthusiasm for archery and said she could see it in me when we walked into that room!
She asked how much I would be willing to pay for all that stuff andI told her it was priceless to be hence the idea of the museum!
She said I want you to take it, Roy would want you too!!
I just about hit the floor! Got it all! Lemonwood longbows, 10's of dozens of shafts all with spine deflections on them, footed arrows, a old recurve that I've never seen before, just a bunch of archery gear! ;D
Her husband Roy, is with me now when I go hunting! his shafts in my quiver, his bow in my hand, I wish this gear will go to another who loves archery after I'm dust and gone!
I get all mushy just lookin at the stuff lol! :'( ;)
tpoof:
I took a couple pulls! Those curves open right up!, but seem to cpme back right where they were, very little set it seems
Didn't want to pull too much as I still want to sinew back her, then I can finish off the tiller, I hope! ;D
This bow has many faces and is a good teacher! I'll continue to work on her and see how the sinew works out.
Always open to suggestions! don't mind the school of hard knocks, but after so many years of it,,,,, lol
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