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80", 80# Ash warbow build along (low-budget style)
WillS:
Stiff handles don't work with warbows ;) for a start it wouldn't be allowed at official warbow meetings as warbows are full compass, but more importantly you need the whole limb working if you want the warbow draw at 32".
Have you read Jaro's buildalong on the warbow website for a heavy ash warbow?
If not it's here
http://www.theenglishwarbowsociety.com/Making_a_whitewood_longbow.html
Good luck!
Crogacht:
--- Quote from: WillS on July 12, 2014, 04:09:06 am ---Stiff handles don't work with warbows ;) for a start it wouldn't be allowed at official warbow meetings as warbows are full compass, but more importantly you need the whole limb working if you want the warbow draw at 32".
Have you read Jaro's buildalong on the warbow website for a heavy ash warbow?
If not it's here
http://www.theenglishwarbowsociety.com/Making_a_whitewood_longbow.html
Good luck!
--- End quote ---
Not to hijack, but what is benefit of flipping the bow "upside down" for tillering in the link you provided?
WillS:
Dunno what Jaro's reasons are, but I always do it that way because I can see the bend and movement better. In my mind it replicates an actual draw more closely. I don't even start like he does, I hang it from the string even on long string tillering. Everybody has different ways though. Some guys hate it that way round, and it does make getting accurate weights tricky.
Colindemo:
It has been a while but i'm still working on it. I have shortened the bow some 6 inches because 80" seemed a little excessive. I'm tillering now and currently at 25" and 60#. Does this tiller seem right to you guys? I'm feeling the limb on the left of the picture seems stiff but it seems to reverse when i turn it around. Any thoughts?
Del the cat:
I'd say left limb looks to be bending a bit much at the tip, right looks a tad stiff.
If you do the CD test (Hold up a CD (other round objects are also available ;D) in front of the pic) it shows the potential hinge near the left tip.
BTW I work in inches for length and mm for width thickness. I think cm are the spawn of the devil and not an engineering unit.
Yeah 80" does seem a tad long, but taking off 6" seems a bit drastic, I'd have thought loose 4" then there is still a little wriggle room.
That's still on a long string isn't it? If so, get it braced immediately else you will be in danger of coming in underweight.
Del
(BTW the above is all just my opinion and you are welcome to take it or leave it, but please don't tell me I'm wrong, I got thoroughy sick of that on another thread :o)
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