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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??
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Bows / Re: Strongly reflexed bow turning inside out!
« Last post by WhistlingBadger on Today at 12:14:52 am »And tiller slowly, Pierce. 
No problem there--this thing is so snaky I think I'm going to do most of the tillering with a cabinet scraper.
No problem there--this thing is so snaky I think I'm going to do most of the tillering with a cabinet scraper.25
Bows / Re: Strongly reflexed bow turning inside out!
« Last post by WhistlingBadger on Today at 12:13:08 am »Interesting. So the solution is to brace it higher. That's counter-intuitive! I'll give it a shot. Thanks, guys.
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Bows / Re: Strongly reflexed bow turning inside out!
« Last post by pierce_schmeichel on November 27, 2025, 11:54:53 pm »Definitely do not take sinew off. If you need to make it bend more just take more wood off the belly very slowly. It is very very easy to remove too much wood when tillering a high reflex juniper bow. Once you get past that snap back point the bow doesnt have as much draw weight as you think. Thats actually one of the things that makes sinew backed juniper bows so darn powerful haha. Kinda straightens the draw weight curve out a bit.
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Bows / Re: Strongly reflexed bow turning inside out!
« Last post by Pappy on November 27, 2025, 11:45:07 pm »What they said 😉😊😊 Pappy
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Around the Campfire / Re: Happy Thanksgiving all.
« Last post by bjrogg on November 27, 2025, 11:13:28 pm »There's a special bond between old guys and teenage grand daughters.
It gets even stronger when they go off to college. Granddaughters are precious
Bjrogg
It gets even stronger when they go off to college. Granddaughters are precious
Bjrogg
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Bows / Re: Strongly reflexed bow turning inside out!
« Last post by Mo_coon-catcher on November 27, 2025, 09:07:43 pm »I was just about to say what Hamish did. Highly reflexes bows pretty well need to be taken to full brace skipping the low brace stage.
Kyle
Kyle
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Bows / Re: Strongly reflexed bow turning inside out!
« Last post by Hamish on November 27, 2025, 09:05:42 pm »What brace height did you string it at?
You need to get it to the point where it can be strung at a decent brace height, at least 4". If you try and use a loose string or a low brace height even a moderately reflexed bow will want to "flip".
You need to get it to the point where it can be strung at a decent brace height, at least 4". If you try and use a loose string or a low brace height even a moderately reflexed bow will want to "flip".