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mikekeswick:
Toomanyknots - a bow with 21/2 - 3 inches of set has been over-strained...simple! It may be pleasant to shoot but it sure won't be great (compared to what it could have been!).
toomanyknots:
--- Quote from: mikekeswick on March 04, 2013, 10:18:29 am ---Toomanyknots - a bow with 21/2 - 3 inches of set has been over-strained...simple! It may be pleasant to shoot but it sure won't be great (compared to what it could have been!).
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Mike, 3" yes, but just because a bow has 2" of set doesn't mean it has been over strained. Anything under 2" is fine. With better woods it may of course, but with woods like red oak, you can easily get 2" set on a new bow with a typical flatbow design. I have had alot of great shooters with 2" set, out shoot reflexed osage bows of the same specs. I think people are becoming "set snobs" anymore, :). Not that thats such a horrible thing in itself, just sharing some thoughts.
mikekeswick:
Sorry but i'll have to disagree 2 inch of set does mean i'st been overstrained ;) and you started off by saying 2 1/2...thats a 25% discrepancy. Red oak just like ash etc can be made into a low set bow. Look at the properties of the wood and design the bow accordingly....my hint is compression strength verus tension strength...... ;)
fishfinder401:
ahh, just say you intentionally gave it "deflex" they wont know the difference ::)
toomanyknots:
--- Quote from: mikekeswick on March 05, 2013, 03:37:57 am ---Sorry but i'll have to disagree 2 inch of set does mean i'st been overstrained ;) and you started off by saying 2 1/2...thats a 25% discrepancy.
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What I said, to quote myself, was that a bow can have 2 1/2" string follow and still shoot great which is obviously true and does not need to, nor can it be argued with to any degree. ;) Especially if said bow was made with a deflexed stave to begin with. Mike, I admire your work like a little girl admires justin bieber, ;D, but you are wrong here, and I think you are being a bit of a snob. Anything under 2" is just fine. Saying a bow with 2" string follow is always over strained reminds me of one of those people that think a guitar is ruined because it has a couple marks below the sound hole from playing... Thats what happens to a guitar when you play it!, you don't buy a 1000 dollar guitar to look at it! Set is what happens to bows that get used, you don't build a bow to look at the pretty unbraced profile, do you?
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