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sleek:
It anyone is game to do this id love to see the results. I'm away from home for awhile otherwise is do it myself.

Here is the idea: Take a straight bow and draw it to full draw ( or slightly less to avoid breaking) on a tiller stick. Lay the stick and bow on the ground and mark the back of the handle and where the string nocks are on the ground.

The take the tips and recurve them as much as you like, the more the better, string contact at brace at a minimum is preferred, and repeat the above.

What I am looking for is did the tips travel further from the back of the bow or less distance from the back of the bow handle when recurve and drawn. A grid pattern may help measuring.

mmattockx:
Are you looking only for the horizontal tip movement? The recurve will have less movement in that direction, but the tips will move vertically in towards the center of the bow more, so the total distance travelled may not be very different between the two.

Brace height may affect the results as well, but I've never looked at that before.


Mark

sleek:

--- Quote from: mmattockx on June 19, 2022, 09:51:15 pm ---Are you looking only for the horizontal tip movement? The recurve will have less movement in that direction, but the tips will move vertically in towards the center of the bow more, so the total distance travelled may not be very different between the two.

Brace height may affect the results as well, but I've never looked at that before.


Mark

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I am actually looking for both and your conclusion is exactly what I am hoping to see. Glad you fully understand, I was worried I wasn't clear

bownarra:
Why??? :)

sleek:

--- Quote from: bownarra on June 20, 2022, 12:54:03 am ---Why??? :)

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Just trying to get a better idea of the dynamics that make a bow work the way it does.

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