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Mo_coon-catcher:
In wondering if anyone has ever tried persimmon for a heavy round bellied bow. I'm just finishing up one that's 75" between the nocks 1 1/4" wide at the handle, parallel for 5-6" each way of center, and tapering to 3/8" nocks. It tillered more elliptically than circular and pulls 60# at 27" taking 1.5" of set. IT performs very well to me in both cast and feel. I've got several longer staves over 80" long and I'm wanting to try a heavier weight out of it. If anyone has any experience with it, how does this wood handle the heavier weight in this style bow? My plan is to start with the handle 1 5/8" at the handle, do a slight taper until 12" from each end then taper to the nocks. And see what sort of weight that gets me. Leaving the stave full length. I'll probably let this one be what it will in weight as long as the set stays reasonable. and use this as a baseline for making bows the weight I want out of this wood.

Anyone have any experience or tips?
I plan to rough it out tonight and keep updates as I go.

Thanks,
Kyle

Mo_coon-catcher:
I got the stave roughed out this morning except for rounding. Starting with tapers at 1 5/8" wide by 1 1/8" deep and 85" long this thing is stiff. Judging off a heavy osage stave o was playing with before dropping the weight. Is probably in the 180-200# realm of not more. I can pick myself up placing my weight on the handle and leveraging with the  tip and barely flex it. I'll probably have to do some thinning if it doesn't get a little softer with rounding. If it's not raining too much tomorrow I'll get some more done on it and another light BC I've got roughed out and ready to long string.

Kyle

sleek:
Persimmon is an aweaome bow wood. I have made a few short plaims style bows of it. They had a high crown and flat belly, with a good toasting. I recall the back breaking on one, but I overdrew it. But be mindful of that. With a rounded toasted belly, a higj draw weight bow may perform wonderfully.

Mo_coon-catcher:
These staves were from a decent sized tree about 12" diameter. So they have a pretty low crown. I cut off some big thick shaving that I did some bend testing on. And like that one of yours it broke on the back before it took any damage to the belly side. Though they were just splinters I was playing with: After the first one I make, I'm liking this wood for a round belly design. The average size of the working portion of the limbs are about the size of my thumb and it still didn't take too muc set. And having what I would consider a reasonable cast. I'm hoping to found out what this wood can handle with this one. I don't care if it's too heavy for me to shoot. I'll find what weight these dimensuons will make. Then scale up or down depending on what it does. I'm curious how Itll perform at higher weights.

Kyle

sleek:
Have fun man, i know you will. And i dont know how you got such a large piece of it, but thats impressive. Sounds like a solid plan.

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