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Will B:
Beautiful work, Dave. I like the horn overlays on the tips and the wraps. Your work is really impressive! Thanks for posting your work here.
superdav95:
--- Quote from: Will B on November 19, 2024, 04:34:53 pm ---Beautiful work, Dave. I like the horn overlays on the tips and the wraps. Your work is really impressive! Thanks for posting your work here.
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Much appreciated Will. Thankyou.
superdav95:
Well gang im at it again! let the experiments continue. posted here are some new pics of a related test build of a 3 piece boo bow with seemless integrated siyahs on the limbs instead of separate levers glued and served onto the limbs. The hangup with attempting this in the past has been cracks and splits on the bends. Ive tried every known process to get this done with exception of something crazy like ammonia which i had no intentions of trying. Ive tried steam, boiling, oil and dry heat along with varied timed pre soaks for days at a time and used a metal band also all resulted failures until now! I had a good conversation with Kevin, (sleek) here actually and he and I were talking about my bamboo bow builds and wondered if id ever tried bending in my tips before. I proceeded to tell him about all the attempts and failures explaining that very dry bamboo pole i have access to dosent bend well and had only worked with greener pole. This later got me thinking and stewing about it after our conversation and wondered if i had perhaps given up too quickly. I hit the shop and began some more test bends and after about a dozen more failures i figured this wasnt going to work and just accept my defeat. then it dawned on me, when i was boiling or steaming the boo tips and quickly moving to the jig i would see it evaporate very quickly and crack every time. So i figured why not wrap it in cyran wrap prior to moving to my jig then bending. well that was the ticket. worked like a charm. gonna have to let them dry for a while but they held up nicely. These pieces shown here are just test pieces and may use them for a lighter weight kids bow. the nice thing about these recurves will be the reduction in mass on the tips hopefully resulting in faster bows. we shall see! anyway thanks sleek for bringing this back to my mind and wanting to try it again. heres a few pics.
video clip
https://photos.app.goo.gl/4EnJYtTRRh7DjtNJ6
mmattockx:
Dave,
Are you adding underlays or other pieces to keep the tips stiff or letting them open up?
Mark
superdav95:
--- Quote from: mmattockx on November 23, 2024, 01:44:27 pm ---Dave,
Are you adding underlays or other pieces to keep the tips stiff or letting them open up?
Mark
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Gonna try both. Gonna do some working recurves and then also try curved underlay of boo lam with rind side facing out towards archer. The should bend nice that way too.
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