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BBI EWB building program in China
leehongyi:
the bamboo beads bracelet
leehongyi:
--- Quote from: toomanyknots on April 14, 2014, 09:53:51 pm ---Well I think your english is very good. Not in any way poor at all. I think being multilingual is a very big achievement to being with, and your english is really excellent. And it doesn't take much ipe sometimes to make a heavy bow. It is very dense and hard, so it can take less material to make the same weight as other woods. I would need to convert the metric to inches to tell you if your dimensions are good, as I am used to inches and am not very good at converting the two, but I go around 1 1/8" inch wide at center, 13/16" to 7/8" inch thick at center, 1/2" inch tips, and around 75" nock to nock length. I leave it the same width about 8" or so in the center before tapering to 1/2" tips.
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your thickness includes bamboo?
toomanyknots:
--- Quote from: leehongyi on April 28, 2014, 08:17:43 am ---
--- Quote from: toomanyknots on April 14, 2014, 09:53:51 pm ---Well I think your english is very good. Not in any way poor at all. I think being multilingual is a very big achievement to being with, and your english is really excellent. And it doesn't take much ipe sometimes to make a heavy bow. It is very dense and hard, so it can take less material to make the same weight as other woods. I would need to convert the metric to inches to tell you if your dimensions are good, as I am used to inches and am not very good at converting the two, but I go around 1 1/8" inch wide at center, 13/16" to 7/8" inch thick at center, 1/2" inch tips, and around 75" nock to nock length. I leave it the same width about 8" or so in the center before tapering to 1/2" tips.
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your thickness includes bamboo?
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Yes, measured from the thinner part in between the nodes typically.
leehongyi:
the upper nock, still needs to be smoothed.
toomanyknots:
Pretty cool! One thing I do suggest is, for next time, you might wanna try gluing the horn on the tips first, and then roughing them out and stuff. It's a lot easier that way. Pretty cool though!
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