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European beech suitable?
joachimM:
The reason beech is so often used in furniture and hand tools (spoons, carving planks, ...) is because it doesn't splinter, since the wood fibers are so short.
If you really want to use beech, use saplings, or the upper side of branches. These have the most juvenile wood, which has the highest microfibril angle (which is the main explanatory variable in bow wood quality).
meanewood:
Hi Del
Sorry links are a bit beyond me.
Page 8 will become post 111 when I post this, subject - arrow weight.
Just to add, the 4 bows I made 3-4 years ago were from a nice board that produced a set of arrows as well!
I used a flat back and rounded belly profile and for the most part got away with it.
Two of the bows developed some very faint crystals which have not caused any issue to date.
One other developed a deeper one, probably due to carelessness when tillering. I decided to cover that crystal with a nydam style binding and have had no issues with that either.
If I was to use beech again, I'd adopt a more rounded back and flatter belly, much like other white woods.
stuckinthemud:
That's a great looking set, love the arrows being made from the same wood as the bow. Did you temper the bows?
meanewood:
No heat treatment.
I'm going through a period of tring to be as authentic as possible when making warbows.
They may have used heat but I'm sure they didn't use heat guns.
The bow shown is 90lbs but I did get one of the others to 115lbs!
Del the cat:
--- Quote from: meanewood on October 11, 2017, 03:21:07 am ---I'm going through a period of tring to be as authentic as possible when making warbows.
--- End quote ---
Difficult as we don't really have any idea of how they actually did it.
No shortage of armchair experts, and guessers tho'
Del
Let's see if this works:-
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,41798.msg571078.html#msg571078
Yeah, looks good... that doc1 opens to give the pic :)
Nice bow ... Nice hairstyle too, just like mine :) ;)
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