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Bows / Re: Bamboo backed Osage R/D help
« Last post by afurman25 on June 11, 2024, 08:23:57 pm »
Ah I see. Thank you for the info and the image helps as well. I was going off the design I saw on meadowlark bows. I’ll try your suggestions on the next one. It makes a lot of sense.
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Bows / Re: Black locust recurved bendy handle
« Last post by Selfbowman on June 11, 2024, 07:41:56 pm »
I like that bow! Well done! Coon catcher the craftsmanship is most excellent on that bow. I don’t have any hats but you deserve one!🤠
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Bows / Re: Bamboo backed Osage R/D help
« Last post by Selfbowman on June 11, 2024, 07:25:48 pm »
Well put Smik!
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Bows / Re: Black locust recurved bendy handle
« Last post by gifford on June 11, 2024, 05:28:31 pm »
Really nice work Kyle. Hope to see you at MoJAM XXV, it's just over a month away.
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Bows / Re: Bamboo backed Osage R/D help
« Last post by simk on June 11, 2024, 05:06:40 pm »
there is literally no fade and a super short powerlam. cant work. the bend must be stopped slowly towards the grip.
on the next one: make the powerlam 4" longer each side and try to get a long transition to zero. also make the fades 2" longer each limb and you wont suffer again. A long combined taper of powerlam and fades will do the trick. You can try to fill that with thin superglue or epoxy. But that wil not solve the problem. What separates once will do twice.
cheers
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Bows / Re: Black locust recurved bendy handle
« Last post by Mo_coon-catcher on June 11, 2024, 03:30:33 pm »
Thank guys!

I would do either to get a heavier pull. Probably 2” longer if I want to keep it narrow or 3/8” wider to keep it shorter. I would think either one would reach 50# no problem.

I agree. I’ve made several in this style and they all have performed comparably. Lightweight, smooth and snappy. On the chronograph all the speeds have been pretty comparable in the low to mid 160s.

Kyle
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Bows / Bamboo backed Osage R/D help
« Last post by afurman25 on June 11, 2024, 02:13:57 pm »
Hello all,

I’ve got a bamboo backed Osage reflex deflex bow that I made. I’m having a problem with separation happening at one of the fades. I can see a hairline of light through it. It’s about two inches wide. The adhesion failed. Probably due to a mistake I made somehow during glue up. My question is: is this reparable for a working bow? I used ea-40 epoxy. How would you fix this? This problem wasn’t immediate. I’ve put a few hundred arrows through this bow before this ideveloped.
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Bows / Re: Shooting while tillering.
« Last post by Pat B on June 11, 2024, 11:32:48 am »
I do the same as these guys. After every scraping session I draw the bow about 20 times to the draw I've tillered too and near the end of the tillering process I do shoot the bow a few times. I also like to "sweat" a bow by bracing it at progressive brace heights as the tillering proceeds for an hour or so early on and up to 6 or so hours near the end of tillering. As a hunter I want to be sure the bow's tiller is solid during the hunt.
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Bows / Re: Black locust recurved bendy handle
« Last post by Pappy on June 11, 2024, 09:39:42 am »
Beautiful bow and very nice tiller. :)
 Pappy
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Bows / Re: Shooting while tillering.
« Last post by Pappy on June 11, 2024, 09:38:26 am »
I like to shoot mine after I get them out to 20 inches or so, short draw shooting and then just work my way up to full draw and weight I want it to be. If I am making it for me I don't worry much about the weight, I just shoot it until it feels good to me and then weigh it and what ever it is , is OK with me.  :)
 Pappy
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