Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: dylanholderman on January 24, 2015, 01:20:09 am
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hey guys here is my fifth bow maple bend through the handle and heat treated to raise the poundage a bit
61 7/8in ntn draw weight? 70-80lb maybe i dunno no way to test it other than guessing :-\
i don't normally name stuff but this one im calling twofinger >:D
(http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w411/dylanholderman/temp106.jpg) (http://s1074.photobucket.com/user/dylanholderman/media/temp106.jpg.html)
(http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w411/dylanholderman/temp110.jpg) (http://s1074.photobucket.com/user/dylanholderman/media/temp110.jpg.html)
(http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w411/dylanholderman/temp111.jpg) (http://s1074.photobucket.com/user/dylanholderman/media/temp111.jpg.html)
tip over lays are osage and i'm a bit worried about them as they started to crack :'( probably going to pull them off and make new ones maybe out of a darker wood to better go with the black and white thing i have going on.
(http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w411/dylanholderman/temp113.jpg) (http://s1074.photobucket.com/user/dylanholderman/media/temp113.jpg.html)
(http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w411/dylanholderman/temp115.jpg) (http://s1074.photobucket.com/user/dylanholderman/media/temp115.jpg.html)
thoughts advice or insults welcome :o 8)
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Round the edges of the nocks more, there should be no sharp angle whatsoever and you want to spread pressure over them as evenly as possible; lesser woods work fine at those weights, it's a shape thing ;)
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Sweet tiller on that bow :)
Nice one.
Del
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Nice bend on a 62" maple at that weight also... 8) How far you pulling her? How wide are your limbs?
Don
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Great tiller, unbelievable it draws 80 pounds
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Cool bow, nice looking bend. Try the bathroom scale method for draw weight. Sometimes short stout bows seem heavier than they are
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Nicce bow!
Only the heat treating could be more consistent next time ;)
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looks like you are getting a lot of bend out of that bow. Nice job.
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Nice bend for sure on it!
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Nice tiller for sure. Your weight guess is off about 25# bud! You can use a stick and bathroom scales to get you within 5-8# usually. Take a 4-5' long 2 x 2 and stand it on top of a scale, then sit your bow handle on top of that and pull downward. I rarely scale mine and guess quite often myself, generally the bows pull 2-5# more than I mark them.
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Round the edges of the nocks more, there should be no sharp angle whatsoever and you want to spread pressure over them as evenly as possible; lesser woods work fine at those weights, it's a shape thing ;)
thanks do you think black walnut will work? i have plenty of it laying around ;D
Sweet tiller on that bow :)
Nice one.
Del
thanks Del that means a lot coming from you ;D your blog has been invaluable to me.
Nice bend on a 62" maple at that weight also... 8) How far you pulling her? How wide are your limbs?
Don
don here shes probable around 27-28 but i know that I've pulled her back to 30 before. at the widest point limbs are just under 1 1/2
Nicce bow!
Only the heat treating could be more consistent next time ;)
yeah i'm not very happy with how it came out but i didn't want to go farther and risk ruining it :-\
ok guys i tried the bathroom scale trick and was getting 87-90.3 lb the block of wood i had it sitting on it read as 9 lb, so that puts me around 77-80 right ??? assuming of course that my scale is fairly accurate ::) lol
EDIT: i just tested my scale with two bows of a know weight and it looks to be reading about 5 lb heavy, that would make it 72-75 then i think :D
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That's a pretty nice bow. Good job. If you can do that with maple then I wouldn't ask about walnut--I'd just do it. At worse, you'll live and learn something, at best, make another nice bow.
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Nicce bow!
Only the heat treating could be more consistent next time ;)
yeah i'm not very happy with how it came out but i didn't want to go farther and risk ruining it :-\
Try to heat the whole limb at once ;)
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Tiller looks great. Nice bow.
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Very Nice full compass tiller on that one and quite an impressive draw weight with taking so little set!very cool!i love maple but am a little vary of it because of it's tendency to go off like a atomic bomb when they let go!lol!
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Heck of a job getting all you could out that.
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Good job on that maple. Tiller looks good. I bet it'll fling an arra pretty quick at that draw weight. Danny
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Black walnut you say?
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(http://i.imgur.com/rxW5QDB.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/UE0seYR.jpg)
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I like the tiller on that bow, well done. Take 25# of draw weight off it and I could shoot it. :)
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thanks guys ;D ;D
huisme those look great! i personally struggle with tip over lays, mine will work fine but always end up ugly :-X