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RyanY:
Thanks for the feedback friends.
Arvin, I am wondering how much wiggle room I'd have with a wood shaft. I probably need to start making my own. Poplar would be very easy to get.
Did some work tonight. Got the form for the smaller flight bow cut out. Made a few adjustments to the line to simplify it a bit. Got the billets cut down to a more reasonable size. They're a bit wedge shaped and not super wide so I need to be careful to get as much width as possible. Shaved down a piece to do a density check at some point. It's definitely hard, aged osage but not necessarily the most dense stuff I've used. I think I'll be able to get 1.75" wide. I have a lot of wiggle room for the length but I was hoping to keep it short, close to 54-56" for primitive flight.
Selfbowman:
Ryan that’s to narrow for that short a bow. It’s going to take more set than you want for flight. Just a opinion. Please prove me wrong. That width needs to be probably 66” minimum. That will help on the set problem.
RyanY:
This will also have a shorter draw for 23” arrows is the plan. They’re the widest billets I have so I’ll have to see how tillering goes. Definitely a high stress design. 2” minimum would have been better.
sleek:
What are the dimensions of that limb? I can run it through my bow calculator program, calculate the surface area of the bending section, and tell you how much that bow can weigh and not take set.
RyanY:
--- Quote from: sleek on October 02, 2025, 02:23:27 pm ---What are the dimensions of that limb? I can run it through my bow calculator program, calculate the surface area of the bending section, and tell you how much that bow can weigh and not take set.
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I haven’t finalized it yet. I’ll probably keep it 1.75” to mid limb or a bit further and then taper into the recurve. It’ll end up being around 24” long if I go 56” ntn with an 8” handle and fades. I’m not sure how much reflex it’ll end up with but I’ll be adding some deflex at the splice. 50#@24.5-25” from the back of the bow is the goal.
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