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bassman211:
Arvin your in box is full for private messages. The bows all shot 140 fps today except for one skinny hickory bow. It shot 148 average. I made it from a 19 year old seasoned stave, and draw was 3lbs. heavier than the rest. The stave was narrow so I could only get one ,and an eighth wide at the fades. Hard shooter for what it is. I shot it with a 10 strand low stretch 652 string.
willie:
--- Quote from: bassman211 on June 23, 2024, 04:32:20 am ---Arvin... the 2 hickories are 63, and 64 inches nock to nock with slimmer design. The 2 Osage bows are 63, and 64 nock to nock with a 1/4 inch wider profile through the length of the bows. 18 ounces mass weight with the 2 sinew backed Osage, and the 2 hickory bows 16, and 17 ounces. Tomorrow I am going to test them again to see if I get the same readings. ??? Some thing seems off to me.
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if your osage bows are slightly wider than the same in hickory, then its possible the osage ones are slightly overbuilt in the sense they coulld have theoretically been narrower and thicker (on account of the fact that osage is supposed to be able to bend further than hickory, all other things being equall, or said another way, slightly thicker and bend the same distance).
if taking early set while tillering out those bows told you to take more off the belly, then that piece of osage was not as good as hickory.
if you find your self retillering stronger bows to lesser poundages as you get older, do you reduce widths to reduce weight?
ed posts at paleoplanet often
bassman211:
Willie....No. I remove wood from the belly. No limb has become so thin that I thought would be a problem so far. The hickory bow was from a split, and not much was left for width. I didn't heat treat the belly, or try to iron out the limbs. It looks like it is negative tiller, but at full draw the limbs are balanced. I just wanted to try to get a bow out of it. It turned out much better than I thought it would. I made a bow from the wider part of the stave, and sinew backed it. It ended up with an inch of reflex. I haven't chronied that one yet, but I will soon just to compare it to the split.
Dvshunter:
I'm almost positive I will see ed in a few weeks at mojam. He is a good man all around. Jist different in the beautiful way that we are.
superdav95:
--- Quote from: Dvshunter on June 29, 2024, 12:01:18 am ---I'm almost positive I will see ed in a few weeks at mojam. He is a good man all around. Jist different in the beautiful way that we are.
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Cool. Say hi to him for me and wish him well. Thanks.
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