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Arvins 62" osage design
Selfbowman:
It had so much shock I gave it away!🤠🤠🤠
willie:
--- Quote from: Selfbowman on December 18, 2024, 08:31:17 pm ---It had so much shock I gave it away!🤠🤠🤠
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lol, I had a shakespeare 66" that left it's home on the bow rack the same way.
--- Quote ---The smoothest shooting glass longbows i e shot had some deflex in the handle fade section and slightly recurved . That design holds the fight records also. I think its hard to compare wood to fiberglass in design though .
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maybe a direct comparison could be hard. but the underlying reasons should be similar. too much flexibility in the outers where the limb return speed is higher and thus has more momentum when the string stops the limb?
can you comment on the deflexed recurved you recently built? is it damper in the hand or more so that your straight backed 67/68 inchers? I assume you have had a chance to shoot some light arrows from it recently.
sleek:
--- Quote from: Selfbowman on December 18, 2024, 04:50:38 pm ---Fifty pound and my normal reflex in the end. 8!stiff handle
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Assuming no stiff tips, the entire bow bends, You taper to .25 nocks.
The bow limbs will be parallel, one inch wide for 25.875 inches
Then you start the taper from one inch wide to .25 for 13.79"
Thats 39.665 inches long limb, double that and add your 8 inch handle you get a long bow of 87.33 inches total.
I imagine that bow would throw a heavy arrow very well and be well suited for a very long draw, which would allow for higher than typical speeds. How fast is a pure guess based on what the end draw length would be.
Now I wonder what virtual bow says about your hypothetical bow Arvin? Im curios to check my work against that. It would be fun to have a bow build off competition between my formula and the virtual bows design.
Selfbowman:
Kevin there was some mention of extremely long bows in bowyers bible 1 I think . I might go back and review that section. Kevin Ive got BJ fixing to build some narrow flight bows . If it can be done with no set at 25 by him it might Poke a hole in your theory. That we will have to watch. Brian can tiller a bow.
sleek:
--- Quote from: Selfbowman on December 19, 2024, 10:19:42 am ---Kevin there was some mention of extremely long bows in bowyers bible 1 I think . I might go back and review that section. Kevin Ive got BJ fixing to build some narrow flight bows . If it can be done with no set at 25 by him it might Poke a hole in your theory. That we will have to watch. Brian can tiller a bow.
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Im often excited to be shown im wrong. It gives me an opportunity to learn more and more quickly.
Which theory are you refering too? Im full of them lol.
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