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80" White Elm Warbow Build-along
WillS:
Very nice. Looks good and even I think. Should be a screamer!
Cameroo:
I feel quite foolish posting this, but I figure if someone else can learn from my poor example, why not?
Lesson learned? Don't use cheap nylon cord for a stringer on a 110 lb bow. I had my tiller string halfway in the groove for the bow's first brace, when the stringer snapped, causing the tiller string to pull a splinter off along the back. Lucky for me it wasn't fatal. Time to make an appropriate stringer I guess... ::)
WillS:
Jeepers, that gave me a shiver of a painful memory... Onwards! Try 550 Paracord. Works a charm.
toomanyknots:
Close call!
Marc St Louis:
You sure that is White Elm? Looks more like Red to me. All the White Elm I ever cut had mostly sapwood.
I've made a few warbows out of Elm and if your Elm is good quality then it will tolerate a D section. I also keet the length to around 75" for a 32" draw
This is one I made for a friend of Jaroslav several years ago. If I remember right it was around 75" long , maybe a bit more, and pulled 125# @ 32", my scale is a bit off so it might have been more like 135#
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