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BBH twins build along (For testing).
Del the cat:
Watching with interest (-P
Del
Selfbowman:
I tape my bamboo as you did . Tape with strap tape as you did then wrap in plastic wrap to keep glue off fire hose or inner tubes.
superdav95:
Did a little more work on both of these bows. As mentioned earlier they will have similar dimensions but will vary slightly. I haven’t decided quite yet how many variables I want to include between these two bows. Too many will make it difficult to determine what made the difference in performance if any difference at all. I admit that it’s not terribly scientific but we are dealing with wood after all. I have thrown in 3 known variables so far. 1. Limbs width. 2. Boo strip thickness. 3. Darkness of belly wood. This last one was varied by flattening more of the back of the hickory blank in prep for boo strip glue up. Taking down more from the back of the blank allowed me to keep more of the toast compared to the second one. I’m debating on a 4th variable of bow length. The first one is 68” while the second is 69”. Today I got both tillered to about 15” with long string on my inverted tiller device. This allows me to scrape and pull without removing the bow. I’ll take it to the wall tiller set tomorrow for getting to around 27” at 50lbs. My goal for these is 48-50lbs at 28”. We shall see. The bend so far on both looks good. More to come.
superdav95:
Got one of these tillered to low brace. Bow bend looks good to my eye. It’s at 50lbs at brace so I have plenty of weight to remove yet at full draw. I’ll work on the other one tomorrow and get them both to brace and go from there.
Bob Barnes:
those are very nice and look fast just sitting there... I'll bet they do well in the testing. Congrats! :OK
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