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6 piece Asiatic style bamboo bow
BowEd:
Not too shabby Dave.Glad to see it came to a really good conclusion for ya.You've got a blue print now for the next one.
bassman211:
Dave I noticed that the bow laying across the chair in your video has rather straight limbs now. That is the way mine normally turn out. They still shoot great with that profile. I am curious to see how much harder your horn bow will shoot when finished. Enjoyed you videos. Make one for your horn bow when it is finished.
superdav95:
--- Quote from: bassman211 on March 15, 2022, 07:35:16 am ---Dave I noticed that the bow laying across the chair in your video has rather straight limbs now. That is the way mine normally turn out. They still shoot great with that profile. I am curious to see how much harder your horn bow will shoot when finished. Enjoyed you videos. Make one for your horn bow when it is finished.
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Bassman. Thanks. Yes that one that is laying across the chair there was one I made last year the 45lb bow I compared this build to. Similar length and basic design but the profile and angle that the limbs were set at were different from the start. I set that particular bow pretty straight to begin with and it didn’t have much reflex prior to at all. It was pretty straight really. I had put maybe a 1/2”-1” reflex in the limbs when heat treated but lost around half. It still has a slight reflex but mostly straight. I found that by doing that I would end up with a straight or slight reflex bow either way and not have deflex limbs as some of my first few did. Speed was the main difference once I did that. Shoot ability was about the same. I did a post last year detailing some of my findings and with the heat treatment incorporated the difference was rather surprising in some cases more then 20 plus fps increase. One of these days I’ll do a write up and some pics for a proper build along on one of these if there is interest. The horn bow will hopefully survive ok and get to the point of being able to shoot it. That would be nice. It’s drying at the moment and will get it’s second layer of sinew next week. I’m hoping speeds will be good with it and suspect it will. So much can happen still with this horn bow build that it’s still anyones guess at this point. Still early. Up to this point the build has need good and no major surprises. The tests of my abilities are yet to come with this one I think. Cheers and thanks for looking.
superdav95:
I made another one of these little test bows. I’ve sinewed the back on this one and gonna just let it dry. Did one solid layer on each limb of 25gr each. I plan to put a hog gut skin on it once dried for a couple weeks. Same dimensions otherwise as the others of this style. Pre sinew weight on this one was at 408gr. It will be interesting to see if better results compared to the others.
BowEd:
Nice looking bow.Your sinew work is looking great.
Never done the hog casing thing on bows yet.It would look cool though.I think before putting it on though a thorough cleaning of all oils and such will have to be removed.Inside and out.I suppose dawn to the rescue here.Good luck with that.
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