Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: RyanY on November 26, 2020, 04:16:17 pm
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Just completed this hickory backed black walnut English longbow inspired by an ash backed walnut warbow made by Kviljo years ago. 70” ntn and 43#@28”. Took about an 1” of set on the upper limb. Was definitely a challenging build as it took set asymmetrically. The tiller is definitely not totally symmetrical but this was strategic due to the differences in the limbs. Finish was pretty quick considering the flaws and possibility that the rounded belly may fail in compression after some time. I’ll be making another similar bow next so this was kind of a warm up. Was fun doing horn nocks for the first time and a horn inlayed arrow pass. Thanks for looking.
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Few more.
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Last couple.
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Cool bow and the horn nocks are very nice. For me, the horn nocks were the toughest part of building an ELB.
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Well done.
Bjrogg
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beautiful.,, congrats :)
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That's a beauty, very nice, love the tiller. :)
Pappy
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That's a beautiful bow with a great curve.
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Very nice bow. Well done
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Very nice work on a tough combination. I recently finished a longbow with the same Hickory backing and Walnut core and went wide and flat and had one pin knot cause chrysals on the belly.
I was extremely careful with the tiller but think I left the backing at 1/8" too thick. Looking at your bow though, it looks like the backing is close to that? I have another one glued up and haven't yet done any work except the rough profile. How wide are you at the handle and is the taper straight to the tips? Is the belly a true rounded ELB? You built a beauty for sure, and I'm hoping my next one will turn out well. My first bow did shoot extremely well, but the chrysals will be its doom I think.
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Handsome bow :)
Del
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I like that one :D
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Beautiful!
Congrats and thank's for sharing!
Michael
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purty bow. Nice job.
Shawn~
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Nice bow. What width/depth did you use at the handle?
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Thanks everyone! I appreciate the comments.
PatB - these being my first ones, I actually really enjoyed the process. There was something satisfying about getting the taper to fit as closely as possible. I wish I hadn't waited so long to try. At least now I have a box full of horn to experiment with.
barebo - The backing is just over 1/8" thick and ideally it should be closer to that or less I think. Mine is 1 1/4" wide for the middle 8" and then a convex taper to just under 1/2" tips. I need to make my horn nock taper bit narrower so I can do smaller ones. The belly is definitely rounded, though for the last few inches of tillering, I removed more wood from just the top of the rounded belly to flatten it out a bit. My hickory backing is also crowned to the point that it is narrower than the actual width of the bow. That probably helps.
Hamish - The dimensions are 1 1/4" wide and 3/4" deep at the handle. I specifically wanted to avoid what looked like a raised up handle section for my own aesthetic preference.
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Nice one, beautiful combo!
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Thanks for the dimensions. I'm on my wife's work computer as ours died yesterday. I'll take a few pics and start a new thread after the new one arrives hopefully soon.
Again - Nice work!
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Cool bow!
I made a few of these years back, forgot why I didn't do anymore?
Yes for the nocks make the bit 3/8ths wide at the base. It is surprising how small they can be.
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Well done I can’t get the ELB down.and walnut ! Arvin
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The horn look great look great, and nice tiller.