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Bows / Re: ECHO II
« Last post by Eric Krewson on Today at 03:28:59 pm »
52#@27", The handle overlay is a highly figured piece of oak burl as were the tip overlays.
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Bows / Re: White oak
« Last post by Badger on Today at 01:34:30 pm »
If you have HBO you can watch it on the discovery channel, it is a series called " Doing Da Vinci" The name of this show was giant catapult, I don't know which episode it was I think #7.
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Bows / Re: ECHO II
« Last post by Selfbowman on Today at 12:57:29 pm »
Eric I understand the wind being sucked out of you!  I would have thought that sleeve would have been fine also. What was the weight on the bow?
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Bows / Re: White oak
« Last post by Pat B on Today at 12:37:58 pm »
I saw a show on PBS where they were bending a Hugh piece of oak for the tongue of a Roman Chariot somewhere in Turkey. Steamed it for hours and used hydraulics to bend to shape.
I want to see that catapult in action. Cool stuff.
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Bows / Re: White oak
« Last post by JW_Halverson on Today at 11:52:37 am »
Can you post a video of stringing it? I cannot see the usual push-pull technique working well with this design.
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Bows / Re: White oak
« Last post by RyanY on Today at 11:23:08 am »
Tips seem a bit chunky. Could use some sinew.  ;D (-P
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I ordered two sets of horn strips from that store. They were both mostly great, there is one with a patch that got sanded down to 2mm but its on the side and can probably situated that near the tip area. Other than that it beats processing raw horn with a coping saw and many steam and clamping sessions.
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Bows / Re: White oak
« Last post by Pappy on Today at 10:18:47 am »
WOW, I might have a little trouble getting that one to full draw. Love to see it strung.  ;) :)
 Pappy
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Bows / Re: ECHO II
« Last post by Eric Krewson on Today at 10:17:47 am »
Amazing bow!

On my last takedown with similar sleeves I thought it didn't matter if I violated the ring on the back in the non bending portion of the handle at the end of the sleeve, it did. I actually violated several rings as the picture shows, this was a very special bow for a collector in California, I used a very dense but difficult snaky stave and had matched copperhead skins to back it. After it blew I told him I couldn't complete the order, this failure took the wind out of my sails.

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