5 piece folding bamboo bows

[superdav95]

Many thanks Bob and Pat. 

[wooddamon1]

Pretty cool stuff, Dave. I subbed to see more. Looking forward to following along!

[JW_Halverson]

Dave Meade came out with his super inexpensive bamboo horse bow kits some time back. I bought one for $99 and the bow he sent me had been sending 9.2 grams per pound of draw arrows at over 200 fps. He had a take-down design similar to this, but your design takes it to a more refined level!

This is a game changer, right here!

[superdav95]

Thanks fellas. Very kind.  I’m gonna work with sleek to get some vid clips put together.  JW.  Dave Meade is who I spoke with years ago.  He was out of his kits at that time so I started experimenting on my own since then.  I do a few things differently but that’s fine. To eachs own.  Thanks for having a look! 

[Selfbowman]

Very cool build Dave. I’m not sure I understand the limb design but it seams that your limb that hinges should fail at the fades. Maybe it’s the wrap that presents it.

[jameswoodmot]

wow!. thanks gents. very generous of you guys to say.  There are a lot of pieces of the puzzle that finally clicked to get me to this point. A-lot of broken bows and trial and error if you know what i mean.   I was thinking of doing a comprehensive build along for these bows soon and posting on youtube and or here.  do you think there would be enough guys here interested in these and would this is wise to do?

I would LOVE that.

Really cool bows, I haven’t seen anything like them before. I’ve got some bamboo on order, looking forward to trying it out.

[superdav95]

Thanks guys!  Ya I’m gonna get to it soon.  I’ll likely do this end of July.   I’ve got two youth camps that I’m running the archery for in July hence the mad rush to get these little boo bow builds done.  Just got 6 more of them all shot in and stained up.  They range in draw weight from 15, 23, 25,25, 30, and 30lbs.   All have heat treated limbs but no folding feature on these ones.  Here’s a couple pics.