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adb:
--- Quote from: yew hunter on February 18, 2015, 08:53:49 am ---Thanks for the replies. There is alot more to building a bow than I thought 10 months or so ago.... not your average wood working project.
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Hi yew hunter. I have sent you a private message. Thanks.
Del the cat:
--- Quote from: yew hunter on February 18, 2015, 08:53:49 am ---Thanks for the replies. There is alot more to building a bow than I thought 10 months or so ago.... not your average wood working project.
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Amen!
We see a few newbies who think you can do it all by numbers ::)
Del
crooketarrow:
I'm not a fan of heat except on none moveing parts ( handle,tips) About 15 years ago I started hading reflex to my staves. I've also hacheted the stave down to bow fourm and took our twists out green. No heat involed.
Before anyone says he's just never heated limbs to know the difference.. I've made more fire wood way more than I'd like to tell you. From heating limbs.
Say what you'd like but if you really shoot and use a bow( a limb heated bow). I'll never out last a bow that never been heated. Not saying you can make nice heat make bows 1000's built every year.
I just don't heat limbs unless I have to. Which is never it I can work around it.
yew hunter:
Thanks for the reply crooketarrow. From all the info I have gathered about collecting and processing yew staves, I have learned that a bowyer wants a stave that has not been modified in any way, shape, or form. I have also recently learned that if you dont take your time while trying to make a yew bow you end up heating the house with it :-[
Marc St Louis:
--- Quote from: crooketarrow on March 18, 2015, 01:39:01 pm --- I'm not a fan of heat except on none moveing parts ( handle,tips) About 15 years ago I started hading reflex to my staves. I've also hacheted the stave down to bow fourm and took our twists out green. No heat involed.
Before anyone says he's just never heated limbs to know the difference.. I've made more fire wood way more than I'd like to tell you. From heating limbs.
Say what you'd like but if you really shoot and use a bow( a limb heated bow). I'll never out last a bow that never been heated. Not saying you can make nice heat make bows 1000's built every year.
I just don't heat limbs unless I have to. Which is never it I can work around it.
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That is your opinion but heat has been used on bow wood for thousands of years so that says something
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