Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: loefflerchuck on November 28, 2018, 09:10:33 pm
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I want to start out with this photo of where the stave came from. Even for hickory a good stave costs about $80 once you factor in shipping. I get most of my hardwood staves from MacBeath Hardwood. I spend an hour or so down there going through various hardwoods to see what is best and hopefully get at variety of hardwood boards to pull staves from. I look for boards I can pull single ring back staves from. This hickory board was not the best but for $30 I got the stave for this bow, a 54" stave, a 45" stave and 8 good hickory arrows. It took some digging to get at this stave but not much more work than starting from a log.
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I made it for someone in South Carolina who wanted a set like what was once used there. Bow is hickory 57" long and has a 45# draw at 27". As you can see one limb has a slight deflex. The strung profile looks off but it is not when you consider a good tiller as equal working limbs. The string is 3 ply deer rawhide. Of course rawhide stretches more than good modern strings but makes a good string once it has been stretched and a tuff long lasting one if made well.
Ryan(Wizardgoat) sent me some viburnum shafts some time back. It is the first time I tried these shoots. They were thich and I took them down quite a bit to get the proper spine. It is a great hard shaft wood. The points are copies of the style from the area.
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THat's a good looking set, that person will be a happy shooter
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Belly was heat treated too
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Great looking set!
Recently I also tried to make my first arrows from shafts. Hazel and Dogwood. I was surprised how easy you can correct them, so I'm going to harvest more shoots and try to make the rest which I sorted out cause I thought they are to much curved!
Did you knapped the points yourself?
Again very nice!
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Chuck,
Nice job on the set! What width rawhide did you use, and how did you stretch it?
Hawkdancer
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Clean and simple... just what I like :)
Del
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Great looking set Chuck!
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Nice complete all around work on that set Chuck.
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Cool set, very simple, great tiller.... Nice :OK
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That is a nice reproduction set you made. Very cool.
I like how you chase rings from boards. How thick was the hickory board you started with?
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Beautifull fulldraw (A)
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More great reproduction work Chuck.
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very nice,, I love that bow,, (SH)
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Nice rig....
DBar
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Flawless bend as always chuck. Great lookin' set. :OK
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Very nice work as always.
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Awesome set! Your replicas are the best!
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Very, very nice work. It's always a pleasure to see your sets.
Kyle
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Awesome set. Love it.
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Very nice as always Chuck, great kit
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Sweet bow set Chuck! Although I’m fairly certain those shafts were osoberry aka Indian plum.
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I find inspiration in your bows. Appreciate that you make bows as you consider the past bow materials and designs of the natives.
And, I always wondered about chasing a ring on a board. You just rasp gently and then knife edge gently, basically, I imagine...
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Thanks everyone. Not sure how thick the rawhide was. Thin enough to stretch the fibers out to make it about 35% longer. I tie about 10 # weight on the strings and use that to twist the strands. Then leave the weight connected until it's dry
Board was 4.5" thick. I usually get easier boards than this but this was the best hickory they had that day.
Ryan, I still have that plum. You send me these shafts a long time back. You said you got them from someone else and traded them forward to me. That was you right?
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Ah that rings a bell.