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Hazelnut bow build-a-long (fixed pictures)
BigWapiti:
Here's a beginner bowyer question that you might help me with: Since we mustn't violate the back of the bow, the tip inlays have me wondering -- with the inlays you demonstrate a few pages back, you show cutting angularly into the back at the tips to accept the hardwood inlays. The hardwood adds strength to that area, but still, doesn't this create a place of weakness where the inlaid hardwood meets the existing bow back ? Since you didn't back the bow up into the inlays, how does it handle this stress? I certainly feel I'm not explaining my question very well here. I'll attach a picture - the point in question is where the arrow points; the line between the tip overlay and the bow back itself. How does the bow wood handle this line between no back and the hardwood inlay? Do they overlap some that I might have missed in the photos?
I'm certainly not being critical; being critical would assume I knew what I was doing - and I've proven over nearly a dozen VM logs so far that I very positively do NOT ...yet. :)
Thanks Gordon!
Mike
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RT:
Beautiful bow Gordon, I have to say , I have learned much following this build a long. RT
Gordon:
Mike,
I design my bows so that the last 2 inches of the tip do not bend. That's why cutting into the back is not a problem.
BigWapiti:
--- Quote from: Gordon on December 09, 2007, 09:31:58 pm ---Mike,
I design my bows so that the last 2 inches of the tip do not bend. That's why cutting into the back is not a problem.
--- End quote ---
Good to know; I figured you'd have had it figured out - I thnk I might give that a try. Thanks!
Gordon:
Actually, it's more like 3" inches of non-bending tip. But who's counting :D
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