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6 piece Asiatic style bamboo bow
superdav95:
Thanks bob. I think it will be good. Ya it’s surprisingly thin. I kept the oval round shape on the belly and back to keep with shape of the boo. I toasted the slats as before prior to glue up.
bownarra:
Lesson learned :) Yes it was always going to fail there. Don't reduce the back boo at all. It you want a piece on the back like that either glue a piece of cork or leather strips on. I'm glad you've got a shooter out of it anyway :)
superdav95:
Update on this little bow. All said and done it ended up at 39-40lbs at 28” after sanding up and smoothing out the file marks and cleaning up. Did the wraps and put a couple coats of tung oil on the belly and tips. Total weight of bow is 433grams. The length is 57” ttt. Didn’t get a chance to shoot it. We had nasty snowy weather up here. Didn’t feel like getting my chrono wet. I’ll post some speeds next week.
Lessons learned for sure indeed. All experiences for the next one.
Cheers thanks for looking
Bob Barnes:
Congrats on bow! I still can't believe that you could get a bamboo back and belly, on limbs that short, down to such a light draw weight. It seems that you were just one thin center lam away from a heavy hunting weight, or maybe just remove less of the bamboo during tillering? If you can find some proper arrows for the bow it will likely shoot very well. :OK
superdav95:
Thanks bob. My thought exactly! I figure the next one I’ll leave it at 50lbs plus tillered and then clean up and finish and be about right. When the limbs are this thin a few scrapes go a long way. Don’t think I dare to go any shorter on the bow but will likley do another like this one then call it experiment done. The next test bow will be using a single slat lam heat curved into c shape so the belly had the outer bark power fibers of the boo and add sinew to the softer back. I can just imagine the weight and speed of that bow. So basically a horn bow with no horn. Just toasted belly boo and sinew. Should be interesting anyway.
Thanks for looking.
Cheers
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