Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Flight Bows => Topic started by: Marc St Louis on February 15, 2015, 07:52:42 pm
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Came across these pics today of a bow I tillered out several years ago, the date taken places the pics at 2004. I got this blank from Steve after I sent him a static recurve to shoot at the salt flats. I was a bit surprised with the Bamboo when I got the blank, it was fully 1/4" thick in some places and at 7/8" wide the bow was also quite narrow. This made the bow quite difficult to tiller especially with 4" of glued in reflex. Lateral stability was virtually non-existent, I don't remember what I finally did to stabilize it. The bow was 64" long and I tillered the bow out to 25" where I think it was pulling 60#. At 64" long and 7/8" wide with the Bamboo nearly as thick as the Ipe when finished, the bow was a handful. At the time I would auction stuff off at Paleo and that is what I did with this one, Steve got it. I remember that when he tested it he posted that it was quite fast even with heavy arrows. He was going to shoot it at the flats but I think he tested it into oblivion before getting there :)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/Marc-St-Louis/IPE%20Composite%20Bows/Ipe%20Flightbow/BBIPE3.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/Marc-St-Louis/IPE%20Composite%20Bows/Ipe%20Flightbow/BBIPE04.jpg)
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Cool skinny bow Marc
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Lateral stability... nightmare.
I've had it big time on the ocasional ELB I've made from skinny offcuts.
I think I cured it by sawing 'em into 10" lengths and burning 'em >:D.
At one roving shoot I saw a Yew ELB that some guy was shooting, it had gone sideways big time and was pulling at about45 degrees to the sap/heart boundary. It seemed to shoot ! :o
Del
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Del, I had failed with several of those because of the lateral stability. I sent that to Mark not telling him that to see if he could tiller it out. He didn't seem to have any problem with it.