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Rookie Ash Bow Build
Newindian:
It looks like you have some serious runoff below the handle. And you should of split it, but it dose give you the opportunity to try doing some laminations, not sure what pairs well with ash though
AndrewH:
It has some uglyness to it, that's for sure. I'm going to keep going just to practice and see how it turns out anyway, though. I bought the Delta band saw off Craig's list months ago but just got the parts to get it running correctly recently so that too is a learning process and I had some 'mistakes' in cutting the board.
Next attempt, I'll just begin with a hackberry stave as I've got a ton of them growing along the ditch next to my house and the empty lot behind me. Aside from getting more advanced and laminating and whatnot, is a stave the best way to make a primitive bow? Heh, like I said, learning experience.
Thanks for the replies.
One question though: moving forward with tillering, what length string should I use? The bow is 40" tip to tip and I still have to construct a tree. I saw on another thread here someone said they just used some heavy duty paracord. I might try that.
Newindian:
40" is very short and with a nonbinding handle its even worse, you are probably looking at a 15" draw length, for now paracord won't be that bad but you should look into getting something else, modern materials include b-50, fastflight,D97, artificial sinew, the list goes on. More historical materials linen, rawhide,sinew,flax, animal gut, silk, nettle, milkweed,dogbane, and more.
Newindian:
Also this wood is seasoned right?
And you could improve your length by splicing two pieces togethe
AndrewH:
At this stage, its more just to keep going and keep practicing than anything else. I ant to assemble a tree and work on tillering even considering how this first attempt is going.
The wood is fairly well seasoned but its too far along to splice at this point.
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