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bamboo self bow build
Tuomo:
Seems to be moso bamboo? Do you heat treat the belly?
superdav95:
--- Quote from: Tuomo on January 29, 2026, 02:42:15 am ---Seems to be moso bamboo? Do you heat treat the belly?
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Yes. It’s moso and it’s heat treated.
Robert Pougnier:
That's looking awesome so far! Are there plans to add anything to the belly or is it just the moso bamboo? Nice work.
superdav95:
--- Quote from: Robert Pougnier on January 29, 2026, 11:05:11 am ---That's looking awesome so far! Are there plans to add anything to the belly or is it just the moso bamboo? Nice work.
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Thanks rob. Ya it’s just the bamboo nothing on the belly. It’s been heat treated like my other builds so it’s basically a tension monster. I made one of these steam recurve selfbows earlier last year but it was only 30lbs. Shot nice but very light. I posted a short video last year on it. Typically with my bamboo bows they were 5 piece builds so was testing out the recurves really. I had been testing many methods to steam bend bamboo. It’s sounds easy until you try it. We think of bamboo as this magical grassy wood material that we imagine will bend however we want. The fresh green or even recently green stuff bends like rubber but when it dries and hardens it’s a different story. The bamboo moso pole that I use is the larger diameter stuff which enables me to get the wider limbs.
Robert Pougnier:
That's awesome, I saw your youtube videos of the 5 piece bamboo ones and they are really beautiful. They look like a lot of fun to shoot! Really nice.
Do you do any flattening to the bamboo? I've only used bamboo for other fun projects but really want to make a bow sometime.
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