Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: DC on November 27, 2017, 03:28:55 pm
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At the first Cumberland Bowmakers Gathering Blayne (Top Predator) brought a beautiful Pacific Dogwood log about 8' long and 8" in diameter. We split it into 4 pieces and each took one. Blaynes broke so I made mine wide. Sorta pyramid. Tips are fumed Ocean Spray. The back is natural coloring. Dogwood bark seems to pop off in wavy pieces leaving that scalloped look. It's 1 3/4" wide, tips are 7/16",65" NTN, 37#@27", shoots in the high 170's, best of 183 @ 10ggp. That really surprised me, I was kinda expecting a bit of a dog since it took almost 2" of set. Just looking at the FD and maybe it could have bent a bit more in the tips. The top limb looks a bit stiff because the inner third twists forward and then back making that section look flat. It shoots real nice and I think the lower weight is going to get me on the right path for form and such.
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Nice looking bow.
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That turned out really nice Don. I really like the pattern on the back. Cheers- Brendan
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Nice tiller, good looking bow.
Pappy
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Nice looking bow Don, I should really finish up my stave soon.
It's been roughed out since then
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Wow that back looks beautiful with the wavy pattern from the bark!
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Very nice!
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Nice one Don! Glad one of the staves survived. Still have half the log so one day I will give’r another go;)
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beautiful natural looking bow with great back colorations and awesome tiller.
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Nice job on a challenging looking stave.
DBar
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Sweet bow DC! Those numbers ain't bad neither. (SH)
I love the simplicity and only mother nature could create a wavy look like that. (-S
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Good job DC, I think you may have mastered the flight shooters release. Your numbers are excellent even using a good fast release technique.
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Awesome looking bow! I am amazed that you get that kind of speed at 37# draw weight. That is really impressive. Great job in following this curvy stick when tillering as well. I know where I need to improve now. Really all around an impressive bow!
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Thank you very much guys :D
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Great looking bow, that Dogwood is nice looking wood. How does that eastern variety work? I was impressed with how easy Pacific dogwood worked.
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This is Pacific Dogwood. It is nice to work. It seemed to take a long time to dry but I guess everything does here. I've made two or three Dogwood bows. Like them all.
I have a new Chrono now so I will test it again when the $%^*&^^ snow leaves.
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very nice! like it
Hans
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I think your chrono is correct, they don't tend to be off by much at all. If I were going to check anything I would verify accuracy of draw weight scale and of course draw length. Your reading are almost too good LOL. You may have developed a quick release. shooting through a chrono does this. I had no idea I had perfected a quick release until it was pointed out to me. I was shooting about 15 fps faster than my buddies drawing the exact same length. A typical shooter shoots about 7 fps slower than if the bow were shot through a machine. A perfected release can add as much 10 or more fps to a machine shot bow.
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I've checked and double checked my scale and I pretty confident in it. Draw length may be suspect as I've noticed when I testing that I tend to try a little harder than when I'm just shooting.That "try" could easily turn into a longer draw length. I've tried putting tape on the arrow but I have trouble feeling it. It just came to me, I'll put a permanent mark on the arrow at my draw length and then roll an "O" ring down to it. I should be able to feel that. Hopefully it will push/roll back when it hits the target and I can just push it back into position. I've deliberately pause at "full draw" for a 1 count since you mentioned the quick release before. I want to make sure my numbers are as honest as possible. What was it our teachers used to say,"You're only cheating yourself." ;D ;D ;D
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I don't think you are cheating at all, I think you have a nice clean release and are getting the most out of the bow.
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Nice job with the performance.
I really like this bow it has the perfect amount of character. Well done.
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I tried again and got more realistic results. The best I got was a 170 and I'm pretty sure I overdrew it. Most were around 165. The bow seems to have taken a bit more set but I'm not sure of that yet. My "O" ring idea works great as far as hitting the same draw length every time but it seems to play havoc with the chrono as well as messing up the flight of the arrow. It started to rain so I couldn't play with the chrono any more.