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Elm warbow 76" 155# @30"

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FilipT:
Wow, it is really big in cross section. Do you think you could have done it narrower and thinner or was it that particular piece of elm that dictated it? How did you make initial layout of the bow, is it gradual taper from parallel handle to the tips done freehand?

Btw, this bow looks so wild, I am imagining as a something wood elf would use. :D

Ruddy Darter:
That looks great, nice work and it does look very middle earthy  (-S

R.D.

JNystrom:
Thanks guys.

--- Quote from: FilipT on October 21, 2018, 07:47:04 am ---Wow, it is really big in cross section. Do you think you could have done it narrower and thinner or was it that particular piece of elm that dictated it? How did you make initial layout of the bow, is it gradual taper from parallel handle to the tips done freehand?

Btw, this bow looks so wild, I am imagining as a something wood elf would use. :D

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Yep, its a pretty big lump of wood. Could use it as a club also! Sure it could have been anything i wanted, but i wanted the heaviest i could make out of it. Just a nice little test. Well this past summer i made 4 bows i'm not strong enough shoot (yet), so this might be enough for now. There was nothing special about the wood, quite ordinary elm, but free of pin knots. I just narrowed it down with smooth taper and then started to tiller. Just leave a bit of meat around the knots and everything is cool. I don't use any rulers or gauges in the making. It would just slow me down i think. Biggest problem i had with the nocks, i had left only really small pieces of deer antler(13mm thick in the base) so i really had to tweak the nocks to make them work. They are around 10mm thick in the string loop curve, which would be comfortable for a 100 pound bow, but not for a 155 pound bow. I broke two nocks in the making.


--- Quote from: Ruddy Darter on October 21, 2018, 08:09:38 am ---That looks great, nice work and it does look very middle earthy  (-S

R.D.


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Well thats ok, it stays in the shelf until a strong uruk hai appears and wants to shoot it. :D

FilipT:
I should try the freehand method next time. I have been making bows until now exclusively with precise measurements. Of course I would allow the wood to dictate curves around "tricky" places but at the end I would have specific measurement plans for initial roughing out.

JNystrom:
If i only used measures i wouldn't have any bows. All my bow wood is crooked, knotted, wavy and reflex or deflexed, which prevents me from using exact measures. Bow making is about learning to adjust. Sure you can make bows out of planks with measures, but i haven't been too interested in it. Only measures i take is the length and handle dimension. These two measures will basically tell you how heavy the bow is and lets you configure the stress. For example now that i found out 43x31mm handle will make a 155# pound and it doesn't take too much set, i could go for 41x33mm in the next bow. It should be little bit heavier (~170-190#?), but actually about the same in mass.

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