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HHB Warbow: A build along
Marc St Louis:
Hello Frank. How are you doing? You have to go a bit slower on your tillering and don't try to get perfection out of your first few. If you need advice then by all means e-mail me.
I was able to get back to this bow and do a bit more work to it. Here is a picture of the bow drawn to 28"
You can see here that the drawn shape is good. Very smooth and uniform. The bow at this point is still holding an inch or so of reflex after taking it down. On to the next level.
The next picture shows the bow drawn to 30". Again you can see that the bow's drawn shape is good. The outer limbs are working just a bit with the last 6" not working at all. I tested the draw weight at this point and at 29" it's pulling just under 130#. It's not going to make the 150# I was going for but it will be close. Being a white wood the draw weight will fluctuate with moisture a bit. Right now the RH in my shop is between 60% and 70%, which you can actually see in the clock as the lower left hand dial is a Hygrometer.
Ian.:
That is coming round really nice, almost at the 32". Looks like the weight is going to get pretty close to the 150lb mark as well.
Badger:
Outstanding as usual Mark, can the gentleman this is going to handle this weight or is he going to train up to it? I would really like to hear back on any distance shots he gets with it.
Marc St Louis:
I believe he can handle the weight Steve and I also believe that he plans on using it for distance shooting.
Here is the bow tillered to 32". It is quite the handful and I have to lean into it to get it back there. The bow at this point has retained perhaps 1/2" of reflex after taking it down but it bounce back up to over 1" in a very short time.
Ian.:
Looks real nice, what is the final weight?
Badger - I know you are pretty involved in flight shooting, do you know what the official American ELB flight record is? (if there is one)
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