OldBow's Note- Three votes went to a bow Marc didn't want posted yet. The winning vote is a "tie" separated by only one vote. One of the wrong three for Marc's likely would have headed for his other entry.
Congratulations to Marc St. Louis of Corbeil, Ontario and to Frank Reinshagen, Mechernich, Germany
Their skillfully crafted laminates are a Tie for March Laminate Bow of the Month
From Frank:http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,5987.0.html
hi! - this is another bow I made from a blank my buddy chris didn't like! I had the blank sitting around for a year or so and it was the last bow I finished in 2007. It's the same limb cross section as chris' BOM/BOY winning bow, except this here has 2 stripes of black walnut, 4 vertical stripes of bamboo and one stripe of purple heart as a core laminate. madake-bamboo on both back and belly.
the bow is 70" ntn and could easily be pulled to 31" or more. I pull the bow to 29" and i have not noticed any loss of reflex from the beginning. the bow pulls 58#@29" and shoots a 540gr arrow at 191fps. iIshoot the bow with a fastflight string.the bow has no noticeable handshock. This is a hybrid between a japanese yumi (following some design criteria concerning gross section, position of the nodes of the bamboo, also the bamboo used is japanese) and the south-indian double-curve (originally a hornbow). chris and i learned to make these from jaap koppedrayer!
Some Comments:
"Frank, we need to get you to the flight shoots with that bow! great design and great loos as well. Thats about as good as they get." Steve
-"Very nice Frank,looks like another great bow." Pappy
-"Great looking bow-I love the profile." -Hillbilly
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From Marc: http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,6165.0.html
I started this bow 2 or 3 years ago, been awhile so I forgot , but it was giving me trouble so I shelved it for awhile. It was, at the time, mostly tillered but the bow had lateral stability problems that were aggravating. To fix it I cut 2" off the tips and this took the reflex down to a more manageable level. After I cut it down finish tillering the bow out was fairly easy.
Anyway the bow is, as the title say a hickory backed quarter sawn Osage that's 55" N to N. The limbs are 1 1/4" wide tapering to 3/8" nocks. The deflex was glued in and the recurves steam bent. The reflex was glued in with the Hickory backing. The bow finished up at 62# @ 28" and has good string tension so I expect the performance to be very good. After tillering the bow retains about 1/2" of reflex which goes up to 1" after sitting for a little while. The tip overlays are made of Brazilian Ironwood.
Some comments:
-"That is an impressive bow Marc. Ill bet it really launches an arrow. I can see how much time it would take to make one. Maybe not 2 years, but a lot of time for sure." Justin
-"Wow you are really getting those little roket launchers down Mark. That is a serious D/R profile. Looks like the curves a being very well utilized on the one. If you know anything about building bows you would know that there is alot of time there, Definately worth more then peanuts. I thought I was the only working for peanuts" Keenan
-"Very nice bow, Marc. The side views remind me of the early 60's short Bear Recurves. I have "saved" a few butt kickers by putting them up for a while and coming back with a clear mind." Pat
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