160lb Laminate bow finished - Update page 3

[Ian.]

Material as in wood? Its Maple belly, Ipe Core Hickory. The brace height is about 5.5"

[markinengland]

Pulling your own weight? In my case that is a constantly moving target! I must train more or eat less, or is that the other way round!

Seriously, great acheivement. A serious bow and you make pulling it look easy!

[Ian.]

Update

This bow was taken apart due to a knot in the Hickory backing that and the fact it started to take set made me decide to have another go with it. The current state of this bow is that it is now in 3 parts, I am going to replace the Hickory backing and glue the bow back together with reflex. The end result I hope will be a good distance, though I do not expect the bow to last.

Pictures of follow.

[Justin Snyder]

If it has taken set and you try to glue in reflex it will probably take even more set. I never undo a bow. I give it away or push it to failure. You can learn so much more from failures than you can from success.

[ol dog]

Nice bow. I could pull tthat about 10 inches.

[adb]

If it has taken set and you try to glue in reflex it will probably take even more set. I never undo a bow. I give it away or push it to failure. You can learn so much more from failures than you can from success.

Justin's right... once the wood has taken set as a result of crushed cells, it's virtually impossible to reverse it. I don't take bows apart either. Give it away, shoot it, sell it... whatever.

[Ian.]

Oh I don't think the bow would have lasted but I don't think there is harm in trying. The result of this bow was a quick glue failure, nothing left to salvage. I also don't believe in giving bows like this away, the warbow community is pretty small everyone knows everyone, if I gave a bow away that wasn't any good then it would look pretty bad.