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Offline toomanyknots

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Red oak chinese style static recurve
« on: April 08, 2011, 10:35:42 pm »
Well I have been waiting to get some leather on this guy, but I just keep putting it off, so I guess I'm gonna just post what I got so far. Red oak from lowes/home depot with linen fabric backing. Although you can't see it in the pictures it there are thickness fades from the bulky handle, about 1 1/2" long. Pyramid taper limbs from 2 1/2" at fades to 1/2" at siyah base. 54" from siyah base to siyah base. Siyahs are around 5 1/2" to 6" with wooden string bridges, painted with regular acrylic paint and gloss polyurethane over that. 60# at 28" with a cord waxed cotton cord handle and a hair on hide arrow pass. This kind of bow, or probably something with the angle of siyah I use, makes it frustratingly easy to have the siyahs twist  during draw if not in PERFECT alignment, and I ALWAYS have to adjust and bend the siyahs in a jig thing to get em to not twist. Last time I tried to make a bow like this was for halfeye and it ended up twisting during stringing and broke from the side. 











Heres a corny little video I made for myself of me shooting it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn3IBFKW49M&feature=channel_video_title

Another video of when I had leather on it, but I had to take it off to correct tiller ( :( ) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hOcGMELjI0&feature=relmfu

 
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Offline n2huntn

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Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2011, 11:07:28 pm »
Cool video. Looks good to me.
Jeff
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Offline beetlebailey1977

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Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2011, 11:12:05 pm »
Looks good to me.....it looks cool when you draw it like the limbs dont move very much...looks fast.  And sounds like it hits hard.
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Offline Elktracker

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Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2011, 11:57:39 pm »
Very cool nice job and always like your videos ;D

Josh
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Offline half eye

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Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2011, 12:07:51 am »
Sweet bow right there partner....way cool.
rich
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Offline hammertime

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Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2011, 12:09:53 am »
That looks fast,cool video and nice lookin bow you got there-Hammertime
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2011, 12:13:54 am »
Excellent bow and avery nice video! Jawge
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2011, 12:36:09 am »
"Sweet bow right there partner....way cool.
rich"

Ha, your probably tired of seeing it by now after showing you before, :). I need to figure out how to align these siyahs so I can make you one for that amazing molly you made me!

Thanks for the kind words everybody! 
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 the upper part is pressed down,
 the lower part is raised up,
 the part that has too much is reduced,
 the part that has too little is increased."

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Offline seabass

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Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2011, 12:42:25 am »
nice bow.it looks like it really smokes an arrow,steve
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Offline TBod

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Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
« Reply #9 on: April 09, 2011, 04:34:57 am »
Cool!

The bow looks brutal, I like it! Nice video, always interesting to a see a bow working.
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Offline dragonman

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Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2011, 09:27:17 am »
Looks like some  adventurous and courageous bowmaking and you pulled it off, well done, cool bow and like the videos

Dave
 
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Offline aero86

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Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2011, 12:10:46 pm »
nice!  glad to see your still at it too!  i think i need to jump back in and make another myself.  you make your siyahs long than i make mine..  sounds like it shoots very good though!  got a good draw length out of it for the length
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
« Reply #12 on: April 09, 2011, 01:05:20 pm »
Thank you for the compliments guys, it means alot!




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 the upper part is pressed down,
 the lower part is raised up,
 the part that has too much is reduced,
 the part that has too little is increased."

- Tao Te Ching, 77, A new translation by Victor H. Mair

Offline aero86

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Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2011, 04:25:55 pm »
how long is the glue joint on that siyah?  on the last one i built months ago, at the very end of the limb, i rasped off some wood to remove weight from the end of the limb.  since thats where the biggest part of the siyah is, i figured it didnt matter. then i wrapped it.  to me it looked a bit better too.  also, did you make the siyah triangular in shape? 
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Offline Arrowind

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Re: Red oak chinese style static recurve
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2011, 04:52:32 pm »
I've been wanting to do something like that for a while.  I really like that design, style, look etc.  The video is great.  You did a great job on that bow.  Excellent work!
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