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Offline Badger

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4th ELB since friday
« on: August 03, 2016, 04:55:59 pm »
  If I don't get this one right I quit!  First one too much bend in the handle, second one too much bend in the outer limbs, 3rd one just a little more set than I wanted. This is all because I try to rough them out too close to finished demensions. This one I am on now is looking just right so far if I don't screw something up.

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Re: 4th ELB since friday
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2016, 05:23:27 pm »
You love it really  ;) >:D
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Re: 4th ELB since friday
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2016, 05:36:33 pm »
       I am trying for a little more mass and a slightly more extreme elyptical tiller, not radical just more than usual. I have trouble keeping that transition smooth, I have always struggled with this. This last one I am going more by limb taper than watching the limbs bend and spot scraping it. 50@20" going for 50#@26". I call this the death zone where they start to take set.

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Re: 4th ELB since friday
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2016, 07:24:39 pm »
Absolutely post 20" is the killer. Also did you miss the 1 off your weight or do you mean 50lb?  >:D
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Re: 4th ELB since friday
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2016, 01:13:31 am »
  It is a 50# elb flight bow for a young lady from hungry. Anything under about 80# is kind of hard with the wood combo I am using. white oak backed ipe. My eye is so used to the stiff handled bows I normally build.

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Re: 4th ELB since friday
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2016, 03:35:33 am »
  It is a 50# elb flight bow for a young lady from hungry. Anything under about 80# is kind of hard with the wood combo I am using. white oak backed ipe. My eye is so used to the stiff handled bows I normally build.
Is that White Oak belly, Ipe back? V interesting.
I have a stave of tight ringed Osage from the Outlaw's monster tree, I'm wondering if that is good flight bow material, or is it just try it a and see thing?
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Re: 4th ELB since friday
« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2016, 08:18:28 am »
  Del, I think i have gotten some from him off that same tree. I was very happy with it. I would say yes.

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Re: 4th ELB since friday
« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2016, 11:55:40 am »
Excellent... dunno what sort of design... I'll see what the wood suggests!
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Re: 4th ELB since friday
« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2016, 03:26:19 pm »
Well this last one came out pretty nice, I tillered it out to 24" and it took just a whisper of set. I am going to bring it out just one more inch and call it good.

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Re: 4th ELB since friday
« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2016, 08:21:12 pm »
Steve,
You get these bursts of incredible energy like no one else.  It is a lot of fun following your progress here. I hope this one ends up a winner for you!

These English longbows are so challenging for me too. It seems so wrong to create one for a flight shoot until I actually try shooting it.

Alan


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Re: 4th ELB since friday
« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2016, 09:36:31 pm »
  The shots by Tony Blakes and Dan Perry are very tough to beat at 50#. My last bow has a little more mass than I wanted but seems to shoot pretty well. No more time anyway.

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Re: 4th ELB since friday
« Reply #11 on: August 11, 2016, 02:53:39 am »
Have you tried another one?  There's still three weeks left for bow making. 

Alan

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Re: 4th ELB since friday
« Reply #12 on: August 11, 2016, 07:55:22 am »
  Yep Allen, I glued another one up yesterday, going to start tillering it today. White oak backed cherry. I roughed it out already and am at a very good mass weight as long as it holds its profile.

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Re: 4th ELB since friday
« Reply #13 on: August 11, 2016, 12:27:07 pm »
  This last one came out great I couldn't be happier, not a whisper of set.

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Re: 4th ELB since friday
« Reply #14 on: August 11, 2016, 12:53:27 pm »
I would love to see pictures and results when you are finished Steve