Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: backtowood B2W on October 22, 2019, 02:40:05 pm
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Wow.... so many nice bows shown lately, thanks for showing guys. Simk motivated me showing off some of my lately work ... so here I am.
First time bow from (sister)billets, first time BL.
I got this billets gifted. They were already quite limited in its dimensions. Could only rescue 2 better growth rings for the back and a knot limited it width dimensions to pyramid design. 1 1/2 at the fades 3/8 at the tips. The Deflex isn’t glued in - it happens right in the fades and so the splice came together very nice. Also there is a S Shape which was very challenging to go along with the recurves. Actually I was after a D/R Design but when I formed the Reflex with the HG, some §%"! happened and I created a little crack on each side. For compensating as much from the S Shape the grain runs out, and there it happened. So i decided to go for a deflex recurve design, with leaving the tips stiff, and only a 26“ drawlenght. I patched and wrapped the cracks with sinew and wrapped another grain run closer out to the tips as well. Shooting it in, it took some set and lost some weight so I went for a heavy heat treatment. Have shot 1000 arrows at least and it seems to take no more set. String follow is 1/2“; 64“ ntn; bh 6“; 45#@26“. I didn´t expect to get a good bow out of it but it shots very nice and I’m proud to got the string aligned without breaking off the tips…
Thanks for watching!
First two pics before recurving the tips...
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Beautiful bow! Nice work on a challanging set of billets. Braced and full draw profile look excellent!
-Taylor
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Fine bow.
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Nice work,nice lines,and good wood.
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Very nice. )P(
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That's a finely crafted bow!
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Love those curves!
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Great work on that one B2W!
Looks like it would be fast :OK
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Thank you guys, I appreciate your comments.
Bassman BL is good wood, I have a 1 piece stave ;) with better rings, this one was mostly 50/50 early to late rings
Bayou Ben the first shots I was stunned about the smooth draw and speed but it took almost two inches of set, tempering helped a bit. I guess it is close to 170 fps now.
Total mass is 456 Gramm
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The curves on that one have a grace that's rare to see. Very nice to look at.
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I really like the profiles. Nice work sir!
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That is nicely tillered. Well done :)
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Thank you! :)
I just sealed 12 staves which I splittend out of a 150 piece pile of B L fence posts!!!
The moistermeter shows something around 12 -14 %.
They are already tipped so I cannot use the whole length, probable 58-64".
They splittend like a Dream, even from the smaller side of the post, which I had to because of the tipped thicker end of the poles.
Costed me 18€ ;)
My only concern is if its honey locust!?!
The bark isn't on them anymore so I have just the wood to classify.
Guess a pic would help, try to make on...
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Looks beautiful!
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thanks Parnell I appreciate it!
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That is one beautiful bow. Thanks for sharing.
Thomas
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Nice work! Nice pics of how you followed grain around those knots, good example of how its suppose to be done.
Mike
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Thanks Tom and Mike, got a good source for BL, so there will come more in some time.
Martin
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b2w: I knew you got some good bows in stock ;D Glad you showed it - it's a real pleasure to watch. Again I can see that special something in a bow of yours. I think it's that little extra attention and patience you always pay your bows. Cheers
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Wow! That is rally nicely tillered! Jawge
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Love everything about it... nice work and a real cool bow
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Thank you for the kind words!
Just weighted it: 457gramms. I calculated around 530 gramms with steves masscalculation. 8)
B2W.