Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Gsulfridge on November 24, 2012, 05:56:43 pm
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:( Man! I just broke my only bow. It was a hickory board bow in flatbow style. I couldn't leave well enough alone and tried steam bending to flip the tips a little. I heated for 40 minutes over a pot with foil around it and got it into the jig quickly. Just started to clamp it when ccraaack! Now I'm bowless :-[ Time to start the next one. As the saying goes " if you ain't breaking, you ain't making". I think I'm done with hickory for a while. Black Locust seems to work better for me. One stave of that left. I guess everyone has to pay their dues. That's two failures out of three attempts.
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I feel your pain. The only people in here that don't have never so much as picked up a tool yet!
And they will learn soon enough!
Better luck, brother mine, better luck!
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My first bow was red oak, a wide pyramid (3 1/2" at the fades) and only pulled about 30 lbs at 28". I linen backed it. That seems to be a very forgiving design.
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If it's just a tip that is broken, I would v-splice a siyah in its place.