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Osage takedown bow
Muskyman:
I’ve been working on a takedown bow and after chasing my ring and putting the sleeves on I started thinking about the style of bow and I’ve never really made anything but a flat bow. So I figured flat bow is what I’d make. Looking at my billet on the back side it’s only about 1 and 1/4 inches wide.
Is that wide enough for a flat bow? Should I rethink what kind of bow I make? Already made some mistakes in my haste to get a bow made and don’t want to compound them. The back marked in red is 1n1/4 wide
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superdav95:
Looks like fun mike. It looks to me that the red marks are on the belly side for width. If I’m correct you could still be a smidge wider if you want still on the back yet. That said you could still make a great bow at 1.25”. What sort of draw length and weight you hoping for? It looks like you got plenty to work with for hunting weight bow as far I can see. Just make it a slightly thicker narrower style bow limb and taper out to the tips for weight reduction and will be plenty heft for hunting. With it that narrow I’d start with thickness of around .600”-.700” then reduce thickness out to mid limb and hold around .500” or so. Depending on your length of limbs this will vary but if wanting a 50lbs draw hunting bow or close to it it’s would be a good start. You would scrape from there. At a length of 66-68” long bow this should give you plenty of draw weight. Just rough numbers here but don’t be too concerned with its narrow limbs as a deal breaker. Keep us posted.
Muskyman:
Yes it’s the belly of it Dave. And it 1.5 inches on the back. I miss spoke. Not sure what kind of weight I’m looking for. It the small sleeve from 3 rivers. Not sure how I’m going to address the handle. It’s small in my hand. My hand aren’t huge but pretty good size and I like a bigger handle then what I’ll end up with if I just put a leather wrap or possibly beaver tail on it. Not sure about the length of the bow yet. If I recall correctly one limb is 32 and one 34 measuring to the sleeve and it’s 4 inches. So 70 inches total tip to tip if I don’t cut the longer limb down to 32. I just got started so I’m still able to do about anything I need to.
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