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Hickory Backed Cherry Longbow Follies; Episode 2
Minuteman:
Well I got the egdes of the back scraped down yesterday.The middle third is still 3/32" but the outer third on each side is tapered down towards the edge to a little less than half the thickness of the backing. Boy it sure is pretty!
Put it on the tree with a long string and my lower limb is quite a bit stronger than the upper.Guess thats better than havin a stronger upper limb since I want the lower limb a little stronger than the top one anyway.
My next dilemma after tiliierin' is what to do with the handle.Used to be I'd get excited about the way it was looking and wanted to feel how it was gonna sit in my hand so I'd cut out the handle. All that did was make it wanna flop around on the tillering tree. I've got the front edge where yer fingers go, rounded on both sides and I removed some of the wood on either side so it wasn't so much like a 2x4. Just cant decide what to do.
How much depth do you need to allow a cut in shelf? Right now where the arrow will pass is pretty wide I'd guess near 7/8"and close to 1 3/4"" deep. I don't wanna weaken the wood too much in the handla as I'm scared of the handle lam popping off. It is setting on a raised portion though, a pretty substantial one too.
Come on Manny! You've broken a few haven't ya? You know where I'm coming from.Break two in a row and ya get to feeling a little inadequate.Got a good feeling about this one. :) ;)
Chris.
Marc St Louis:
Chris
I thought you said ELB. Don't think I've ever seen an ELB with a cut in shelf :). Here is a stiff handle BC bow that is 1 1/4" wide and 69" long. It pulls 50# @ 29"
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NOMADIC PIRATE:
Don't cut a shelf in, it's HUGLY !! ;D just my preference ;)
Lower limb stronger it's good , but not too much :oI wouldn't do much pulling on the tree untill more balanched.
...again, numbers just swim in my head without connecting ::) ??? ::) ???
pictures woul be nice ;D...like kids with books :D :D :D
Minuteman:
Yeah Marc, I probably won't cut in a shelf after all. Wouldn't be much of a LB with one.
I suppose a little leather bump at the top of the handle would suffice for a shelf.
Boy, wheres Rod Parsons when ya need him, eh? He sure would give ya a ration at a moments notice. Wonder what he's doin' nowadays...
Still a little skeered the handle will pop off.
Manny , I've been takin' some pics as I went and I'll take a few more and post 'em soon as I get the limbs evened out. Me like 'em pik-shers 2!
Hugly? I've heard of fugly and bugly but not hugly! ;D
Minuteman:
Somebody take away my tools! I can't tiller to save my life! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( :'( :'( :'(
Man, I had nothin but trouble with that thing. Couldn't get it to bend where I wanted , I'd take wood off one side and the opposite side would get weaker or at least it seemed that way. Finally got things close and then in the last 7 inches there was no more weight . It was just like it dried up. Do reflexed limbs get away from ya like that?
I'm about ready to start punchin myself in the face and laughin about it.Grrrrrrr!
Well now I've got a 70" bow limbs don't match one bends more in the middle than the other one and its all of around 38-40 #@28". Man I'm just ... dangit!
I've got a piece of beaded paneling with the lines going horizontally on the wall behind the tillering tree. Should I take that down? It seemed like the more I tried to get my limb tips to come to the same point the more i lost control of what was going on.I need a light behind me when the bows on the tree too. I think having a shadow on the right limb makes it look different than the left one I dunno.
Got one more cherry belly and one more hikree backing. I'll try again I guess. At least this one stayed together.
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