Primitive Archer

@ Pappy - many thanks. Muchly appreciated. Having these two has put the kibosh on much traveling. The don't do that well either. Flintridge, Tennesee Classic are at least two of the places I would like to get to!

Nice work! Are you Familiar with Will Lord? Englands modern caveman?

 Here's a video for it likely ship building. Notice the strap on the tension side of the bend.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18RTHTaKwB/

Yes, the strap is applied before the bend to limit stretching of the convex surface of the piece.
Raising a splinter is likely the sole concern of the shipwights.

With a bow limb, a strap applied (prebending, and in the location Dave shows above) will compress the limb's back, maybe unduly if it is expected to serve as the tension side of the limb.

Experimentation might be neccesary with similar methods to bring a bamboo working limb into the best balance of tension or compression qualities for becoming a game changer.

As bamboo excels in tension already, My guess is that whatever works best for the belly side of the limb will be where you find a game changer.

Uploading pics is pretty painful this morning!

As you can see we aren’t quite in line. I am not one for putting in the effort marking things out. I trust my eye and I leave things over sized so I can bring them in to shape and size later. Always best to leave room for error and design change!

As you can see we aren’t quite in line. I am not one for putting in the effort marking things out. I trust my eye and I leave things over sized so I can bring them in to shape and size later. Always best to leave room for error and design change!

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