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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Dauntless on June 12, 2009, 02:39:48 pm

Title: Another board bow, a gift for my father
Post by: Dauntless on June 12, 2009, 02:39:48 pm

I was pretty happy when my mother found some linen canvas she had bought 30 years ago.  It isn't very heavy but it has a nice undyed colour and I managed to cut some 60" x 1.5" strips out of it.  Being the cheapo scrooge I am, I didn't want to waste two strips on one bow.

This is a sugar maple board I tried to make a thin pyramid bow out of.  It is 73" long and 1.5" at the fades.  It draws a clean 50# at 28" although with the low stacking, it feels like a low 40#er.  It has taken more set than I like with 2" just unbraced.  This is probably because I made the bow so thin, backed with linen and strung her too quickly.  I do have her braced at 8" too so my dad wont be forced to use an arm guard or change his shooting style.

I kept the tips a little more stiff than usual because the linen backing is so short and I wanted to bow to be low stacking.

The tips are cherry scraps from when my dad built a fibreglass canoe 20 years ago.  The handle is some mystery wood he brought back from Australia.  It was used for fire wood down there, I used it for a riser because of its nice heartwood/sapwood contrast and because it's very dense.  He requested an arrow rest and a strike plate so I made one out of a couple of layers of leather.  The bow shoots just fine without it on the right side.

The finish is a couple of coats of tung oil.

(http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/rr313/Dauntlessbows/IMGP9226.jpg)
(http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/rr313/Dauntlessbows/IMGP9225.jpg)
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(http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/rr313/Dauntlessbows/IMGP9220.jpg)
(http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/rr313/Dauntlessbows/IMGP9221.jpg)
(http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/rr313/Dauntlessbows/IMGP9223.jpg)

Title: Re: Another board bow, a gift for my father
Post by: Josh on June 12, 2009, 02:45:03 pm

Wow nice bow the tiller looks great!!

Title: Re: Another board bow, a gift for my father
Post by: medicinewheel on June 12, 2009, 03:47:58 pm

Really nice!
btw. you can superglue the edges of the canvas for easier sanding!

Title: Re: Another board bow, a gift for my father
Post by: The Burnt Hill Archer on June 14, 2009, 11:20:09 am

excellent tips! very nice work, im sure he is gonna love it!

Phil

Title: Re: Another board bow, a gift for my father
Post by: GregB on June 15, 2009, 08:12:58 am

Very nice bow! Your dad is sure to like it! :)