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Title: Red oak chinese style static recurve
Post by: toomanyknots on April 08, 2011, 10:35:42 pm

Well I have been waiting to get some leather on this guy, but I just keep putting it off, so I guess I'm gonna just post what I got so far. Red oak from lowes/home depot with linen fabric backing. Although you can't see it in the pictures it there are thickness fades from the bulky handle, about 1 1/2" long. Pyramid taper limbs from 2 1/2" at fades to 1/2" at siyah base. 54" from siyah base to siyah base. Siyahs are around 5 1/2" to 6" with wooden string bridges, painted with regular acrylic paint and gloss polyurethane over that. 60# at 28" with a cord waxed cotton cord handle and a hair on hide arrow pass. This kind of bow, or probably something with the angle of siyah I use, makes it frustratingly easy to have the siyahs twist  during draw if not in PERFECT alignment, and I ALWAYS have to adjust and bend the siyahs in a jig thing to get em to not twist. Last time I tried to make a bow like this was for halfeye and it ended up twisting during stringing and broke from the side. 

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Heres a corny little video I made for myself of me shooting it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn3IBFKW49M&feature=channel_video_title

Another video of when I had leather on it, but I had to take it off to correct tiller ( :( ) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hOcGMELjI0&feature=relmfu

 

Title: Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
Post by: n2huntn on April 08, 2011, 11:07:28 pm

Cool video. Looks good to me.
Jeff

Title: Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
Post by: beetlebailey1977 on April 08, 2011, 11:12:05 pm

Looks good to me.....it looks cool when you draw it like the limbs dont move very much...looks fast.  And sounds like it hits hard.

Title: Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
Post by: Elktracker on April 08, 2011, 11:57:39 pm

Very cool nice job and always like your videos ;D

Josh

Title: Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
Post by: half eye on April 09, 2011, 12:07:51 am

Sweet bow right there partner....way cool.
rich

Title: Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
Post by: hammertime on April 09, 2011, 12:09:53 am

That looks fast,cool video and nice lookin bow you got there-Hammertime

Title: Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
Post by: George Tsoukalas on April 09, 2011, 12:13:54 am

Excellent bow and avery nice video! Jawge

Title: Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
Post by: toomanyknots on April 09, 2011, 12:36:09 am

"Sweet bow right there partner....way cool.
rich"

Ha, your probably tired of seeing it by now after showing you before, :). I need to figure out how to align these siyahs so I can make you one for that amazing molly you made me!

Thanks for the kind words everybody! 

Title: Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
Post by: seabass on April 09, 2011, 12:42:25 am

nice bow.it looks like it really smokes an arrow,steve

Title: Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
Post by: TBod on April 09, 2011, 04:34:57 am

Cool!

The bow looks brutal, I like it! Nice video, always interesting to a see a bow working.

Title: Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
Post by: dragonman on April 09, 2011, 09:27:17 am

Looks like some  adventurous and courageous bowmaking and you pulled it off, well done, cool bow and like the videos

Dave
 

Title: Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
Post by: aero86 on April 09, 2011, 12:10:46 pm

nice!  glad to see your still at it too!  i think i need to jump back in and make another myself.  you make your siyahs long than i make mine..  sounds like it shoots very good though!  got a good draw length out of it for the length

Title: Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
Post by: toomanyknots on April 09, 2011, 01:05:20 pm

Thank you for the compliments guys, it means alot!

Title: Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
Post by: aero86 on April 09, 2011, 04:25:55 pm

how long is the glue joint on that siyah?  on the last one i built months ago, at the very end of the limb, i rasped off some wood to remove weight from the end of the limb.  since thats where the biggest part of the siyah is, i figured it didnt matter. then i wrapped it.  to me it looked a bit better too.  also, did you make the siyah triangular in shape? 

Title: Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
Post by: Arrowind on April 09, 2011, 04:52:32 pm

I've been wanting to do something like that for a while.  I really like that design, style, look etc.  The video is great.  You did a great job on that bow.  Excellent work!