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Jbell:
Fantastic! Great bows, great kids, that is as good as it gets.
DanaM:
I vote that you do a Justin & Cody build along? ;D
And Alex can be the director/photographer.
Ok guys whos gonna back me up here?
DanaM
Dustybaer:
justin, thanks for the pics. i'm amazed how little wood is actually necessary in the handle. the handle on my nephew's bow is massive and clumsy compared to yours, so i guess i'll have to revisit that bow. thanks loads, justin ;D
Hillbilly:
Good looking, well-armed little tribe you've got there. I second the build-a-long motion. :)
Justin Snyder:
Thanks everyone, I'm glad you like the pictures.
Cody and I will do a buildalong when he does his bow. I'm thinking a hickory selfbow this time, but thats really up to him. And of course he will want to put snake skins on it. ;D
Marius, I generally carve the handle to fit the hand size. I was told you can go to 3/4" wide if the area is 1 3/4" thick on a 60# bow and not have it bend. In TBB they say that twice as wide is twice as strong. But twice as thick is 8 times as strong. Since a lot of osage bows are 1 1/4 wide and under 3/4" thick on the limbs. The mathematics suggest that by narrowing it to 3/4 the handle would be 30# but by adding 3/32" thickness you would be back to 60#. So if you add 1/4" the handle area will not bend. The laminated bow I posted the other day got down to under 1 inch wide, and 1 1/2" thick and did not bend at 60#. Cody's gets down to 3/4" wide and 1 1/4" thick. Justin
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