Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: dragonman on November 29, 2012, 04:56:23 pm
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Heres another ash bow to look at. It took 1" of set, the one before only took1/2". its 68"ntn, and 2" at the fadeouts and just under 50 lbs at 27"... Its shoots like, an ashbow.... not superfast, but not slow either ...satisfactory
I notice a lot of the guys arent too keen on ash , so I thought I'd show that it'll make a quite satisfactory hunting bow. If I was to heat treat it mildley , then it would be even better, but I'm not going too.
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Nice!
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Nice job on that one!! 8)
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sweet i like that one
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I think it's awesome. I actually really like Ash. Sweet bow.
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Nice bow. Nothing wrong with ash. One of the few bow woods that grows here. Your bow is on a fine line between pyramid bow and Holmegaard.
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Great looking bow there Dragon and you got a good bend on her also, its clean and pure looking. Got me a few ash staves a few months ago and will have to start one in a couple months. Made a handful of ash bows in the past but been a few years since I worked with it.
Looks like a good design you have there for ash, may have to copy it ;D.
Greg
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Nice clean design, build and finish. A nice piece of wood too.
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Excellent tiller and a good looking bow. I like the way the grain looks on ash. We don't have white ash around here. We have green ash which is very straight grained, but not as good a bow wood as the white.
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Very nice bow,got to love the grain on Ash. Nice job. :)
Pappy
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thanks very much for all the comments..much appreciated....I've worked on this design for a few years now, to get the best out of ash...It needs to be 2" at the fades, then it tapers 1/2" upto the mid-limb, then it tapers to 1/2" at the nocks and must be at least 68" long.....for anyone interested to copy the design...It will take some heat treatment on the belly and you can even get some reflex , as long as you dont overdo it and just toast untill it gets a very light brown colour. If you toast the bely more then it just crysals
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Nice bow Dragonman. Its hard to stay away from ash's even, straight grain.
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Yeah nice bow. The grain sowing on the back looks ramrod straight :).
The reason I don't like Ash so much is it's so damn hard, it's a bit tough on my elbows trying to drag my draw knife and spoke shave through it.
I still got some seasoning tho' as it's a damn sight better than no wood.
Del
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That's a dang fine bow there sir!
But can I ask, what makes it a homie?
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Is the bow done from a stave with vertical grain? Looks like it's quartersawn, and the handle doesn't appear to be glued on. Very attractive bow no matter how it was done and lovely tiller. Nice work.
George
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Nice bow and cool grain ;)
May it shoot 10000 arrows or more.
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Bryce. I call it a holmgaard, because it is basically the same limb dimensions as the sections of the original, the artifacts are incomplete, so its kinda my interpretation, buts its close.
Gstonberg, its split out of the trunk of a fair sized tree, buts its a self bow, ony one piece of wood used, its split the same as a quarter sawn board. I purposely did it this way.to maximise the wood strength
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Very nice bow from ash.I'm sure she pulls and shoots smooth as butter.