Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: ravenbeak on February 23, 2009, 01:26:32 pm
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It takes two to "tango"
This is the mating piggy back to a heartwood selfbow I finished a couple months back. It is pretty neat to see them together knowing that the belly of this one fits to the back of the other.
It is 50" long 1.5 inches wide through the handle/fades straight taper to half inch tips. It does bend through the handle slightly, and pulls 47 pounds at 26 inches. The wood has extremly tight rings. The tips were bent with the heat gun and oil, which proved to be way way easier than steaming. I'm sold. I also heat tempered the belly, which i like to tell myself is why this one took less set than it's mate.
I had a knot very near the edge of the bow which was staring at me kinda funny so i wrapped it in thread and saturated it with duco, doing the same on the other limb for symmetry. The handle I build up with a bulbous off cut of yew, and wrapped it with linen string to hold it in place and allow bending. I placed a thin strip of leather between the bow and the handle to eliminate the unnerving creaking that happened on the last bow.
The arrow rest is a carved sliver of yew, held on outside of the leather wrap with sinew. and the string is continuious loop linen.
I have shot about 200 arrows through it so far and it shoots great. It is amazingly light in the hand. I had near heart failure around arrow 100 when a self nocked arrow split with a kaboom. It was espescially interesting as only minutes before I removed the sinew reinforcing wrap around the nock as it was starting to fray. It was a cheap lesson as far as i'm concerned.
The arrow rest is located approx 1 inch above centre. which has proved to be interesting. On the tillering tree I was resting the bow on centre and it looked very even, and now that the handle is located slightly below that it seems to me the bottom limb is bending a touch more.
anyways, enjoy
and let's hear what you think
cheers,
Jamie
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couple more for good luck....
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Looks like a keeper to me :)
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Very cool :)!
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I love the rest. That is a great idea. I may try that. Do you worry about it slipping over time?
It looks great, Bob
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Nicely done! Very interesting design with the rest. I haven't seen that before. Thanks for sharing.
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Cool little bow, nice job! :)
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Nice work, Jamie!
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thanks guys,
the rest was my own idea and this is the second bow i have done it with. I did it the first time because I was having difficulty getting the leather of the handle to snug around the wrap on handle riser. This way I can do the handle wrap first and then add the rest after. Also it allows more freedom if I need or want to shift the rest up or down or even to the other side. I did put a drop of duco between the leather and the rest, on this one, where as I didn't on the other. but with the sinew shrinking as it dries it seems to hug the rest nice and tight.
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very well done keep it up
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Very nice little bow. I'm assuming it is yew. Your tiller looks very good too.
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your a creative genious, good goin :)
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Excellent bow. Congratulations. Jawge
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Great Job!! Well done.
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Very nice Jamie,tiller looks great and the rest is cool also.Well done.
Pappy
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Very nice bow. I really like seeing short bows bend. The tiller looks great. You did a really good job on that one.
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thanks alot everyone, i'm glad you like it.
it is always exciting posting the new bow to see what everyone thinks.
I am becoming more comfortable with the whole process now, this being bow 6. espescially the tillering.
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That's a great bow Jamie,I really like it.50", WOW!!! God Bless
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Nice looking bow Jamie. I hope to get to shoot it soon
Broken Arrow
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I'll bring it and you can shoot it this afternoon...
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Nice bow. At only 50 inches I can emagine how light it feels. Love the profile. I wish I shared your comfort on tillering though. I am tillering a 60 incher right now and I'm as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. Well done Sir!
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This is a yew self bow, unbacked.
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Very nice bow and I appreciate the inovation of the arrow rest. 50"? wow. Talk about a good ambush bow. Well done. Danny
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Good looking bow.
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thanks guys, 50" does feel tiny, it looks like a kids bow at first. but it shoots great.
Hillbilly, this is from the same tree as your wood.
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Great bow and I like the idea of being able to move the shelf. Very nice
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Absolutely quite the bow and looking forward to seeing it this weekend for Self Bow of the Month fun.
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it would be neat to see a picture with the two bows together as they may have been when in stave form. Any chance of you doing that?
VB
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here ya go venisonburger, they don't nest as they would without the handles, but here's how they were in the tree.
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