Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: snedeker on July 30, 2008, 06:01:48 pm
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62" ntn, 55# at 27", 1&3/16 wide at fade, 7/16 tips with brown sage inlays. Ipe power lam 13" long, walnut and hickory built up handle. This is poor osage with thick early growth I cut. Dry heated ub the curves. Based on a combination of the concepts of Ryan's plains bow and Frank's bows, both double curved, from back in the winter. Sort of northern plains meets s. asia. Its a nice design for this wood. Good cast and smooth.
Dave
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That is awesome! I love it! :) Great bow :)
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Nice job Dave, beautiful bow. Steve
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I really like the profile, sweet bow
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That is just about gorgeous! i love the unbraced profile. good job!
Phil
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That looks really good. Jim
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Really nice Dave!! ;D
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yessir that is one fine weapon, amigo
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FANTASTIC !!!
frank
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Good looking bow.. I like that design..
David
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Thanks. I lost a leeetle too much of the curve on the end of the top limb in the draw. The lower limb looks like its bending a touch more but I think there a little more deflexed bend mid limb there, producing that effect. I have three sister slats I plan compare other designs on with the same specs.
Dave
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I want to make one like that...could you give me some pointers, please? Do you have pictures of the process so you could do a buildalong? I would really appreciate that....What a cool design!
Scott
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Hey Dave that's a sweet looking bow there buddy.
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Sweet looking bow Dave. Justin
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WELL.....(&(*(&*&(#$&^!!!!!!
I liked it so much I went out to the shop and glued up a couple laminations into a good copy. I used 2 f-clamps to hold down the center (4 inches from outside to outside of the clamps). Then I placed a 1.5" block 6.5 " out from each of those clamps, to reflex the limbs. I placed 4" blocks under the tips, and 6.5" in from the tips I used f-clamps to create recurves...brought the limbs down so that they were 2.25" from the benchtop.
I used TB2. The laminations are of edge-grained white ash.
The bottle says clamp time 30 minutes. I went out for an hour, came back, undid the thing and POP! the lams came apart. Usually I wait overnight, but I wanted to leave the shop clean for my buddy (whose shop it really is)...now they're no good. Have to start again....G'dammit!
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Did you heat the curves in after the bamboo was glued up?
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Radius, how did you apply pressure to the laminations, you need to leave it clamped at least 12 hours in dry weather. Did you wrap it in inner tubes? Steve
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I pretillered the 9/16" osage slat and heated in the curves like it was a selfbow, then glued on the power lam,then the bamboo.
Red mahogany stain on all by the way.
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Nice bow Dave! :)
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Great looking bow Dave, nice job.
Alan
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very elegant.
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Nice looking bow dave :)
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Radius, how did you apply pressure to the laminations, you need to leave it clamped at least 12 hours in dry weather. Did you wrap it in inner tubes? Steve
wrapped it in plastic, clamped it into place, then added a pressure board and clamps between the clamps that were holding the shape...next time i will leave it longer...usually, my blanks retain their shape...
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Sweet! I like that profile.
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Dave - that is one of the best bows you have ever made. And bookmarked #1 for August Laminated Bows of the Month
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Very nice, Dave. The braced and unbraced profile are quite sexy! Pat
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Radius, I have noticed that clamp time on the glue container too. They certainly don't mean something under tension. Of course this one of mine was done by heat bending a core piece, not through form glue up. I used simple form tp get a little more reflex in the boo glue up. My booo was from just a 2.75 inch diameter pole
Dave
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Looks real good Dave!
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This is a really nice bow.