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Osage ELB
Muskyman:
Starting to bend it some. Need to catch the left limb up to the right. Looking like the left limb is stiffer for the last 2/3rds. The right one looks a little flat on the last 1/3rd maybe.
Here it is at rest and then with a little pull on it. I’m needing to find some horn for it. About the only place I’ve found so far is in Germany. Probably put some tips on it once I get it bending about the same at about brace height..
Hamish:
Plenty of raw horn for tips on Ebay.
Stave looks good so far. Looks like you are going for a stiff handle, with dips? How deep is the handle?
Muskyman:
Not really sure how a ELB is supposed to look in the handle Hamish. I guess I better look into that more. It’s probably about 1n 1/8th to 1 n 1/4 not 100 percent sure to be honest. Do they typically not have that look to them. I just knew they had the D shaped limbs. I probably have it that way because that’s kinda what I’m used to doing. I’m gonna look into it and might have to change it up in the handle area. Thanks for getting me thinking.
Hamish:
For elb's you can build them to bend through the handle, or various degrees of stiffness. Many variations were made. The style you have at the moment will give you a stiff handle, like we use with most flatbows. It arguably makes the smoothest shooting style, less handshock.
No need to change if you don't want to.
Muskyman:
Yeah I’m seeing that now after looking around today. The one Thing I’m finding out about this particular Osage stave is that the rings don’t really like the D shape. As it tapers down towards the tip. Now this stave has a little thicker early wood rings than I’d like so that might have something to do with it. Is what it is. It sands out okay so I’m sure it’ll be fine.
I did find the cow horn tips on eBay. Are they typically solid on the last 2-3-4 inches, I really don’t know.
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