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Hazel longbow, 100# @ 28"
FilipT:
I would like to make regular flemish with bowyers knot but I hear many of these materials slip, especially slick material such as fishing braid.
Also, how would you deal with 40 mm of reflex and uneven shaped limbs (one has dog leg)?
DC:
When I have reflex in a bow and it wants to flip on the tree I use 5 min epoxy and glue a flat piece on the belly side of the handle. It helps keep it stable. Once the bow is braced you just rasp it off.
FilipT:
I doesn't flip at all and I am grateful for it! But what it makes is that it gives much more resistance to bending. I must try new string and see what it will happen then.
FilipT:
I made the flemish string, it looks really good for a first try. It stretched a couple of times during tillering and than it stopped. Tomorrow I will continue with tillering.
FilipT:
Bow is tillered to brace and ready for string!
Managed to get tips moving evenly to brace. I put the scale on rope and when the tips got to around 5-6" of draw (which is close to brace height), scale read around 100#. Since my scale goes to the 110# I didn't continue to measure further than that as it would break.
When I put the bow on kitchen scale, its mass was 866 grams. In mass calculator bow with current parameters weighs about 842 grams for 130#.
So when I get these things into consideration, I think the bow is currently about 120-130#. Somebody (I think Del) said that when you measure draw weight using long string; what you measure at brace height, will be probably final weight when you put actual string and pull it to full draw.
Since I want bow around 90# I still got enough room for removing wood but as I have read about tillering heavy bows, I am aware that they can lose weight really quickly so I will not go furiously at scraping.
Now what I need help is that I don't know how to make stringer notch. I will simply need it as it will be impossible for me to brace this bow using usual stringer. Do I need to make just some shallow groove at the top of upper tip?
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