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Badger:
Greg, I made mine from about 54" to 68". Most of mine were unbacked when I used osage. I could almost always get the wood to make the draw length but was never happy with the belly cells that got crushed with that much reflex. Wood is designed for about 1% stretch and compress. I think sinew is more effective in highly reflexed designs. But each guy can get different results. I like the bow that Ryan posted above, a little less radical. Steve
Justin Snyder:
Now I am confused again. The huge amount of reflex is shortening the working section. The small working section is doing huge amounts of bending just to get it braced. Why would you want to shorten the working area by cutting then re-bending. If it is recurved that far, I would leave the length long. I like the smaller recurve that Ryan did also. Justin
jamie:
oh my gawd!!!!!!!!!!!!
GregB:
Justin, I am definitely a rookie at this recurving...but without any more educated replies at this point to your question, here's my two cents worth.
I think the working recurve is contibuting at least 3/4 of it's length to bending/working. Ryan had mentioned the outer predominately recurved section of the limb to tiller until it just begins to start opening up. I'm guessing you'd still leave the last 4" or so almost static to the tips? I guess the key is to get that section of the limb working some, but not to the point where it loses much of the recurve. Needs to retain the recurve memory to snap back in place and spit those arrows! ;D
On the static recurve, most of the limb is bending similar to a typical flat bow, the last 6" or so is completely nonbending. Looks like that last 6" on Ryan's static is narrowed nicely to the tips, but retains the static posture from a thicker than normal back to belly thickness.
Could be that all I've said above is nonsense, but with my lack of experience with recurving Ryan style...it's how I'm evaluating it at this point. ;)
Justin Snyder:
One thing you nobody can argue with is that Ryan knows what he is doing and builds some pretty recurves. Justin
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