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6 piece Asiatic style bamboo bow
superdav95:
Got some good weather and shot this bow after a number of days drying. It hasn’t lost anything for speed and the leaf camo backing held up. Shot it about 60 times today and drew it out to about 29.5”. At that drawlength it shot 191fps. Using the same 400 grain arrow from previous tests. Pretty happy with that for this bow. At 28” draw it shot consistently mid 180’s. Has two duplicate reading at 184 at 27”-28” draw. Readings in the range of 185-187 but conservatively I would say 184fps at 28” draw. Just going by feel. the first pic is me drawing to about 27.5-28”. The second pic is to about 29-30” roughly. At this draw I got speed of 191fps. Draw weight at 29” was 47.2lbs. Still not too shabby. So my concern was the backing staying together. Well so far so good I guess time will tell. After several dozen shots today no noticeable damage or change to the leaves that I could tell. So I’ll call this a success on two fronts. First the design and performance and second the dead leaf camo backing experiment. I do think next one I’ll use smaller leaves so as to get mostly entire leaves on the bow to look little better I think. Still happy with it. As far as the belly goes it’s got 8 layers of true oil after the initial first layer of tung oil coating. Each session sanded with 600 grit and applied with my finger. After last layer dried for couple days I hit it with toothpaste and polished entire belly surface to give it depth. Turned out just the way I hoped. Thanks for looking.
Here’s a few videos of me shooting this bow. Enjoy and thanks for looking!
This vid I drew out to around 29-30” to get 191fps
https://photos.app.goo.gl/izgRaYwXDUi5VrDC6
Thes vids are at 27-28” draw for 184fps
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Bzj11qHLCY61J1hX6
https://photos.app.goo.gl/AW3eYg9PS9tzNxyH9
Cheers
superdav95:
More pics…
backtowood B2W:
Very nice! tiller looks very good, too . good numbers!
I have to try this kind of decoration - looks great - perfect for autumn
Thanx for showing us.
BowEd:
Excellent imagination of the native colors as a theme on your bow.Reminds me of the feather backed bows from the past.They were beautiful too.
It does'nt surprise me of no performance reduction with the leaves on there.Bows with shorter limbs are not influenced by that much with that.Good work showing of your testing.Having a spotter along side keeps things legitimate.
Basically your shooting approximately a 9 grain arrow @ 28".Less yet @ 30".Still very good numbers.
Definitely a successful adventure you took here.Beautiful bows.
There's 2 parts IMO about making bows.Much like carpentry building houses.
The set up and the finish.
With bows the set up is the design and tlllering.The finish is the bling and finish put on after shooting it in.
With carpentry the set up is base or frame up and basic lay out.Then it's the inside and outside finish work.
There are good set up people and good finish people.Some better at one more than another.
IMO you excell in both these catagories.
superdav95:
--- Quote from: backtowood B2W on May 15, 2022, 02:44:43 am ---Very nice! tiller looks very good, too . good numbers!
I have to try this kind of decoration - looks great - perfect for autumn
Thanx for showing us.
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Backtowood. Thanks for your kind words. I was quite happy with the numbers on these test bows. I’ll definitely be making more. I’ve still got the sinewed version waiting to compare numbers with in a couple more months so it should neat to compare. Thanks for looking.
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