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Bows / Re: American Flatbow Oak Board Bow 53lb @ 26"
« Last post by Eric Krewson on Today at 10:08:20 am »One of the best tillered bows I have seen lately, Amazing!
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Bows / Re: American Flatbow Oak Board Bow 53lb @ 26"
« Last post by bjrogg on Today at 10:02:10 am »Very nice tiller. Good looking bow
Bjrogg
Bjrogg
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Primitive Skills / Re: Life is good
« Last post by Pappy on Today at 09:31:42 am »Hope every one had a great Thanksgiving, headed to the cabin for a couple of day, got a few projects to work on and may do a little hunting, plan on boiling the Yot and cat head and also got about 50lbs of bear fat to render and maybe scrape some hides if the weather hold and they stay tight in the rack. Hope yall have a good one also.Life ids Good. 
Pappy
Pappy
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Bows / Re: American Flatbow Oak Board Bow 53lb @ 26"
« Last post by Pappy on Today at 09:26:15 am »Beautiful bow, very well done.
Pappy
Pappy
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Bows / Re: Strongly reflexed bow turning inside out!
« Last post by Badger on Today at 09:06:27 am » Wood is not really suitable for highly reflexed bows. The reason is because a highly reflexed bow has to have very short working areas to maintain any kind of stability and wood will either break or take too much set if it doesn't have enough working limb. Look at the modern Asiatic bows, they have very short working areas. Your desing has to be able to tolerate the materials you are using.
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Flintknapping / Re: Recent stone points
« Last post by GlisGlis on Today at 08:06:44 am »very nice points
they look consistent in their variety
they look consistent in their variety
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Bows / Re: Reflexed Ocean Spray
« Last post by Del the cat on Today at 08:03:26 am »I would deflex the handle. It would be very unstable with all that reflexWhat he says
Plus, with that much reflex, it will be hell's own job to brace it, and then it may end up under weight because it's been worked down so much just to brace it.
Del
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Bows / Re: American Flatbow Oak Board Bow 53lb @ 26"
« Last post by Hamish on Today at 07:05:47 am »Another lovely, well crafted bow. Great job on the tiller.
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Bows / American Flatbow Oak Board Bow 53lb @ 26"
« Last post by Threy Cameron on Today at 06:36:38 am »Hey everyone!
Finished up another bow the last one of a set of 4 adult bows from an American Red oak board. The board so far has yielded 4 bows with 4 additional kids bows in the works.
The bow is 68" long and is the first bow where I've incorporated the TBB mass principle the bow ended up being 19oz. right on the money. I learned from my previous heat treatments and managed to slowly and gently cook the limbs resulting in very little set so far. The bows limbs are 2 inches wide at the fades for a little over half the limb before tapering to 1/2" nocks. I shot for an elliptical tiller and believe I pulled it off.
The handle is brain tanned buckskin created by my brother with NZ possum fur string dampeners.
Cheers guys
Finished up another bow the last one of a set of 4 adult bows from an American Red oak board. The board so far has yielded 4 bows with 4 additional kids bows in the works.
The bow is 68" long and is the first bow where I've incorporated the TBB mass principle the bow ended up being 19oz. right on the money. I learned from my previous heat treatments and managed to slowly and gently cook the limbs resulting in very little set so far. The bows limbs are 2 inches wide at the fades for a little over half the limb before tapering to 1/2" nocks. I shot for an elliptical tiller and believe I pulled it off.
The handle is brain tanned buckskin created by my brother with NZ possum fur string dampeners.
Cheers guys
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Bows / Re: Reflexed Ocean Spray
« Last post by medicinewheel on Today at 02:33:41 am »... I was considering reflexing the handle with steam to deflex limbs and make a reflex deflex bow. ...
Guess you ment to say deflexing here??