Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => English Warbow => Topic started by: nickf on February 21, 2009, 03:58:43 pm
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it pulls close to 90# @ 29", I tillered it to 28 and after drawing to 29 the lower limb started to take some more bend. So I'll get that top limb bending slightly more (at mid-outer limbs) and go for 30"-31", for some more warbow-like draw :)
72" ntn, 1 1/2" wide at the handle.
drawn to 29 in this pic
(http://i545.photobucket.com/albums/hh367/hanshanssam/bows/hazel%20warbow/Afbeelding051.jpg)
flat belly, slightly crowned back, probably the best shape for hazel.
I've got plans for 100# @ 32" , 76"ntn hazel bows... wish me luck :)
still 360 days till I turn 17, hopefully I'll crank even more bows this year :D
Nick
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a little scraping... drawn to 30"
(http://i545.photobucket.com/albums/hh367/hanshanssam/bows/hazel%20warbow/Afbeelding062.jpg)
still unhappy with it, seeing the lower limb, being 2" shorter, bending more I'm getting more and more certain I can get this one up to 32" drawlength... if I get that upper limb bending more and better, ofcourse.
Nick
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Have you shot it yet? hows it shoot? I wouldn't settle on the tiller until I'd sunk a good number of arrows. It's coming along nicely (imo) but that could change a bit once a few war arrows have been let loose
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I shot like 60arrows @ 28" and drawn it over 200times :)
Nick
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I really like that. I am going to try a warbow this summer
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Very nice job!! Well done, young man. Your tiller is very good. The bottom limb is bending perfectly, but I think maybe the top limb is just a bit stiff right at midlimb.
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you're so right adb :) that's were I'm going to get that other inch... Maybe :)
Nick
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Nice bow Nick. I have gotta find some hazel around here and try it out. You are from the Netherlands right?
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Thats looking real nice Nick :)
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I agree with what the others said and I want to add that you might have to get a longer arrow before increasing your draw ;D
Cheers,
Daniel
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haha thanks guys :)
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really nice! only a 90#28 is for me an uncomfortable draw
isnt it for you?? I much more prefer to draw and hold a bow on 31-32 inch draw
then 28.
joren1993
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Thats a realy nice one Nick. How thick is it in the middle?
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joren, being only 72"ntn I want it to bend perfectly before I draw it over 30". but indeed, that's much easier.
thanks kerbinator :) It's about 1"thick.
I've already got 2 ash and 1bbi staves in the work, for 100pounders :)
Nick
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Nick, great looking warbow! I don't see much wrong with that tiller, either. Have you backed your bow?
Good luck on your ash elb. I've made a couple but they are nowhere near 90#.
Philip
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nicely done breh, looks like a shooter
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thank you, both :) It's an unbacked hazel bow ;) Ash warbows didn't reach the 100, they were both in the 90's, but one's more like the high 80's now after retillering. Both still need heattreatment, and first one needs some piking.
Nick
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Nick is that wych hazel or our generic european hazel "Corylus" because that one wouldnt likelly stand for this.
What is the sg of the wood?
Jaro
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would luv to see some traditional horn nocks on the bow.....( also on the other ones aswell )
imo it would just finish them off... ;D ...and they are not difficult to do
Chris
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sagitarius boemoru;
many people are amazed when I tell them I used hazel for this heavy bow, but it's really 90# and it's hazel ;) I don't have an Idea about the s/g, sorry.
african man, this one won't get horn nocks, nor will the other warbow I posted here. I got two staves lying around, they will get those horn nocks, if they satisfy me ;)
Nick