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BBI EWB building program in China
Dan K:
You are going to love this bow! I'm excited to watch your progress and see the end results. Good luck!
toomanyknots:
Yeah, bamboo and ipe are a nice combo, :).
Del the cat:
Looking good. 80# @ 30" is a nice weight (even this cat can pull it :laugh: )
Good luck from the home of the EWB :)
Del
leehongyi:
OK, i'll show today's work. before the pics, i want to know whether i have used the right word. the title"BBI EWB building program" is all right or "progress" is better? sorry for my poor english expression. Today i left hospital earlier than usual and spent 2 hrs on my bow. I mainly shaved the thickness and rounded the edge. But i think it's a bit heavier than my expectation. i tapered it from 3.2cm to 1.5cm just 10cm from the center to the end, is that right?or guys can you show me some successful cases?
toomanyknots:
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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