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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Sparky on March 11, 2021, 05:57:36 pm

Title: Curved stave
Post by: Sparky on March 11, 2021, 05:57:36 pm

Do these staves look ok? There's a lot of natural curve to the hickory. It's the way it is drying. What are your thoughts? Thanks, Greg.

Title: Re: Curved stave
Post by: Pat B on March 11, 2021, 07:12:31 pm

It's natural do to inside stresses in the wood. Generally speaking this can be corrected with with stream or dry heat as you are building your bow.

Title: Re: Curved stave
Post by: Sparky on March 11, 2021, 08:20:41 pm

Searching the web I found this post from here. Pretty much addresses my questions about natural reflex. Guess I should of done a bit more lookin first.

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=33784.0

Title: Re: Curved stave
Post by: bjrogg on March 11, 2021, 09:20:20 pm

Those look pretty nice to me. How long are they?

Bjrogg

Title: Re: Curved stave
Post by: Digital Caveman on March 11, 2021, 09:28:40 pm

If you don't like them I'll pay shipping if you send me the one on the far left :D.

Title: Re: Curved stave
Post by: Russ on March 11, 2021, 11:04:10 pm

Ill pay shipping for the one in the Middle Right!!  ;) ;D

Title: Re: Curved stave
Post by: M2A on March 12, 2021, 09:00:05 am

Looks like you got some nice stuff there. Unless I'm missing something. Like Pat said, you can make some adjustments with heat as you go, if needed.

Title: Re: Curved stave
Post by: Eric Krewson on March 12, 2021, 09:14:08 am

I have found sideways bend in hickory hard to correct with heat or steam, I should say easy to correct but hard to keep it from going back.

Title: Re: Curved stave
Post by: Woody roberts on March 12, 2021, 09:33:42 am

I have found center shot bows to be much easier to make with staves like these. Just my experience.

Title: Re: Curved stave
Post by: Del the cat on March 12, 2021, 12:21:21 pm

Curve? Call that curve????  ::)
Del

Title: Re: Curved stave
Post by: Sparky on March 18, 2021, 12:47:39 am

The long ones are 7' long. This is new to me and my son. We have a couple more in the shed. The three have zero knots. We are going to cut them down some soon to aid in the seasoning. We probably would have cut the tree a bit different if we had any real idea what we are doing.

Title: Re: Curved stave
Post by: JW_Halverson on March 18, 2021, 11:04:05 am

All else fails, you can saw them into billets and when you join them together you can correct for the bend. Mind you, that's getting kinda technical, but plenty of folks can walk you through a Z spliced handle here.

Title: Re: Curved stave
Post by: Hamish on March 19, 2021, 04:45:24 am

JW with a surname like Halverson, I was not surprised when you suggested halving the staves into billets :D (good idea though)