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jamie:
for those of you that have back issues or if you dont get it. i reccomend reading a great article in volume 6 issue 2. understanding old bows. i have nothing against the scientists on this board who like to push the limits of spped and mass with their bows. we need them to keep things interesting. i myself prefer simple. something strong enough to put a point through ribs at a comfortable distance. thats what this article is about. peace

cowboy:
Amen Jamie! That's what this newbie is into. Course later on I may start disecting what makes a bow work - it's all good. I've got a good idea what woods will make bows and what disignes will work but need the continual input here on what works good overall ..............good stuff!!!!

Pat B:
Jamie, I'll have to look it up. You and I have the same philosophy about our archery addiction.  ;) 
     I was looking through some old issues today looking for the article by Hillary Greenland about English Elm and Holmegaard bows.  Every time I dig in my stack of old PAs I find interesting articles I had forgotten about.     Pat

Badger:
A lot of misdirected information regarding pushing the limits. The quest for more performance has led me all the way around the block and back to square one. Low mass bows can perform pretty well, but not as well as a bow with suffiicient mass placed in the right places, My bows have gotten considerably heavier in mass, even heavier than a lot of bows that I previously thought of as overbuilt. When a bow is finished up and shot in and has only taken a whisper of set it has to have sufficient mass to do this. My mass theory does not push the limits of mass in anyway, in most cases it is the opposite, it does force the bowyer to look at where his bow his bending and where he is putting the mass, but just like learning any trade we simply have to learn some things to become proficient at what we do. A 50# bow using the same profile can vary in mass by as much as 6 oz depending on the tiller used. This past few months I have been building bows from 30# to 150# in preparing my chapter on mass. Sometimes the wood will drive the design, sometimes the design will drive the tiller, sometimes the mass will drive the design and the tiller. Adding one more tecnique to your bag of tricks can really free us up a lot when building bows with woods, draw weights, lengths or designs we are not familiar with. Steve

jamie:
steve i gotta tell ya that your chapter is the one im looking forward to most. i would never limit my knowledge but when im hunting and i have a simple hickory d bow that has taken 2 inhes of set and 1/2 a dozen deer knowledge meens squat to me, its about something simple that works.

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