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bamboo back and belly ELB... now finished w/new pics
medicinewheel:
hey guys! - my friend chris made this blank and lost interest in it, so he gave it to me. it's an bamboo back and belly stickbow with a core of tempered vertical bamboo stripes sandwiched between two stripes of black walnut which is the typical cross section of a japaneese yumi. the limbs are 1 3/16" of an inch at the widest tapering down to 5/8". this very narrow-limbed bow pulls beleave it or not 65#@29"
i tillered the bow today and started shooting it in. great pleasure to shoot!! very smooth draw and shooting really hard, flat and accurate so that even i can shoot it!
here is a picture that shows the cross section of a bow i made the same way and unstrung and braced profile.
i'll post more pictures when the bow is back from the beauty shop, okay?!
frank
ps: the belly bamboo is heavily tempered
pps: the bamboo used is madake. that's the kind used in japaneese bows
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1/2primitive:
Very neat, looking forward to more pictures.
Sean
Justin Snyder:
That is cool, encourage him th start anotherand hope he looses interest again. Maybe this time you can suggest the type of stave he makes. ;D I cant wait to see the pictures. Justin
medicinewheel:
well justin, the story is a little bit longer then that. a while ago i tillered an osage recurve on his tillerwall when a hook came loose and my stave broke, so he gave me this blank to make up for that a bit. but most of all you should see his other bows: he makes the most exciting double-curved bows with cores like that. so he didn't care for the ELB much.
chris is a perfectionist. he is not using the internet so i guess i should post some of his bows for you guys.
comix:
love to see them !! ;D
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