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barebo:
Here is my "High Tech" set up. It's all I have to work with. My glue lines are good so I go with it.

Pat B:
Nice looking bows. Your set up is fine and if it works than that's finer.  :OK

barebo:
Thanks Pat. Here is the Bamboo backed Hickory. Arrow is 30" nock to tip. Might be a bit stiff out of the top fade.

superdav95:

--- Quote from: barebo on December 23, 2023, 03:59:10 pm ---Dave, you were my inspiration to attempt to induce reflex into my bows. I've flipped tips and steam bent recurves but never attempted a sort of Perry reflex. No heat treating at all - I put the reflex in with zip ties after clamping at glue up. Honestly, filing the nodes wasn't my intent but even thinned to the degree I thought would work, the bamboo was too strong in tension and I knew it would crush the hickory core. I did some research and found that a bowyer had posted a video of a bow he had done with removed/flattened nodes so I thought "why not"! Time will tell...
On to my 2nd hickory backed hickory and that will be done hopefully early January making 3 in 3 months. I caught the bug somehow and your speed demons might have been the virus!

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Ya the virus!  A lot of us on here are still getting over that virus!  I’m glad these worked out so well for ya.  I think I know the of the guy you may be referring to from meadowlark bows.  He’s got some great build along vids too.  I remember puckering up when he strung up and shot that bow.  His rationale if I recall was the nodes like you say cause too much strain on the core.  For a future build you should try a heat treated reflex and then glue up boo backed.  This does a lot for getting better compression capabilities out of your hickory belly to handle the extra stresses of the boo back.  I’ve tested this out and the results are quite good.  Basically you would heat in your reflex on your floor tillered bow blank then prep your back like you’ve done already maybe even adding an inch if you want.  I do add a tiny bit on glue up to counter the boo strip natural tendency to deflex.  I end up keeping about 3-4” reflex loosing very little this way.  I’ll do a thread here in the new year on heat treatment soon if your interested.  Cheers. 

barebo:
Dave,
I read your prior posts and was amazed by the amount of reflex that you were able to retain after shooting in those BBH. At 68, high 30 to low 40# is plenty of weight and I no longer fling broadheads so mine are basically 3D oriented. Yes, Meadowlark is the culprit that gave me the stones to reduce the bamboo from the back. Time will tell if it was a bad move, but it wouldn't be the first one to fail. Any heat treating I've done was the good 'ol heat gun and it certainly made a difference with correcting some bows that needed it and increased poundage as well.
I'd bought a bundle of 25 bamboo slats - 6'x2" years ago, and they're gone. Last one is on "Nodeless" - guess that is what I'll call that bow!

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