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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: dreamcraft_archery on November 03, 2022, 06:24:56 am

Title: Penobscot style Triple Bow
Post by: dreamcraft_archery on November 03, 2022, 06:24:56 am

Hi again!

Another interesting bow I've built in recent months. I know it's probably not very efficient and beneficial, but I wanted to make something like this for a long time. Let's say it was just for fun project. I used 3 wood species for this build: black locust for the main bow, ash for mid one and yew for the smallest stick. The small and mid one were shaped and bent with the use of steam. For both these I used leftover material from other projects.
The bow (all strung up) unded up drawing over 65lb at 26". The main bow is approx 67" ntn, mid one 42" ntn, and the smallest 26" ntn. I used hot hide glue to join them, them wrapped the handle with flax twine and again sealed it with hide glue. Bow string are made from B55.

You can see the building proccess here:
https://youtu.be/uU2Gfka66Es

Thanks for watching!

Title: Re: Penobscot style Triple Bow
Post by: BowEd on November 03, 2022, 07:42:41 am

You've been busy.Quite the bow.
Quite a bit of string length adjusting with that one.

Title: Re: Penobscot style Triple Bow
Post by: Del the cat on November 03, 2022, 05:26:27 pm

Its not April the first is it?  ???
Del

Title: Re: Penobscot style Triple Bow
Post by: Hamish on November 03, 2022, 07:03:20 pm

Dude, you have a lot of time on your hands ;) Only kidding, cool experiment.
I marvel at your skill.

Title: Re: Penobscot style Triple Bow
Post by: Yooper Bowyer on November 03, 2022, 10:24:15 pm

 :o :o :o

How does that perform?   

The engineer in me is totally freaking out at the complexity of that system.  It looks simple enough, but that thing has some crazy physics going on as it shoots.

Title: Re: Penobscot style Triple Bow
Post by: George Tsoukalas on November 03, 2022, 11:15:47 pm

Very nice! 2 ons are better than 1! Jawge

Title: Re: Penobscot style Triple Bow
Post by: medicinewheel on November 04, 2022, 02:03:07 am

Yes... why have 2 when you can have 3... !?

Nicely done!

Title: Re: Penobscot style Triple Bow
Post by: superdav95 on November 04, 2022, 02:12:04 am

Well that’s cool. 

Title: Re: Penobscot style Triple Bow
Post by: GlisGlis on November 04, 2022, 04:11:06 am

Time to upgrade and shoot multiple arrows
Very nice experiment  :OK

Title: Re: Penobscot style Triple Bow
Post by: bassman211 on November 15, 2022, 09:59:00 pm

Well done. certainly a conversation piece.