Author Topic: I'm bending 2 Guava bows untill they break !!! ( pics)  (Read 33635 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline GregB

  • Member
  • Posts: 4,079
  • Greg Bagwell
Re: I'm bending 2 Guava bows untill they break !!! ( pics)
« Reply #60 on: July 03, 2007, 02:24:33 pm »

Cool thread Mannie...I really enjoyed it! ;)

I was wondering if you burnish the backs of your bows?
Greg

A rich person can be poor monetarily, the best things in life are free...

Offline Pat B

  • Administrator
  • Member
  • Posts: 37,609
Re: I'm bending 2 Guava bows untill they break !!! ( pics)
« Reply #61 on: July 03, 2007, 02:49:56 pm »
This is a very cool and informative thread Manny. Makes me feel better about my snaky guava stave. ;D
   Pat
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC

Offline NOMADIC PIRATE

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,910
Re: I'm bending 2 Guava bows untill they break !!! ( pics)
« Reply #62 on: July 03, 2007, 03:25:11 pm »
Thanks Greg,...no I don't burnish the back, but I've being thinking about it, and I might start to.

Yeah Pat, I knew it was a tough to brake, but now I feel even better about the durability, and as a hunter to me it's real important, I know my bows gave me most of the time pass thru on pigs, so even if not the fastest, there's plenty there,...now I know that in normal conditions there's no way they break, what more can you ask ?? ;D ;D



This experiment validates what I've being sayng for years, ...I don't really know much about bowmaking, but I've just got lucky to find a wood that let me get away with murder ;) ;)
NORTH SHORE, HAWAII

Offline Mickey

  • Member
  • Posts: 95
Re: I'm bending 2 Guava bows untill they break !!! ( pics)
« Reply #63 on: July 03, 2007, 06:57:45 pm »
LOL Manny that was something else to see. That's some tough stuff for sure. I'm suprised though that the BG outlasted the selfbow. I would have expected the bamboo to splinter way before a good self back.

Robinwho

  • Guest
Re: I'm bending 2 Guava bows untill they break !!! ( pics)
« Reply #64 on: July 03, 2007, 07:17:48 pm »
Remember me also north shore I want to buy a stave, I have two guava bows now ,but I need one with less LBS, Getting old you know, Built my first guava bow in 1962.
Need a stave about 68" for a #50 Bow.

Let me know how much you need. shipping to Fla 33172.
Thanks

Offline Ghost Dog

  • Member
  • Posts: 87
Re: I'm bending 2 Guava bows untill they break !!! ( pics)
« Reply #65 on: July 03, 2007, 07:59:27 pm »
My hero!!! That was one crazy set of pictures. You sure convinced me, my friend. Now I am going to go shoot the living daylights out of the bow you made me.  :)
With a fine osage selfbow, my elkhide quiver filled with cedar arrows fletched with turkey, and with the invitation of the forest, I am about as happy as a man can be.

Offline NOMADIC PIRATE

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,910
Re: I'm bending 2 Guava bows untill they break !!! ( pics)
« Reply #66 on: July 04, 2007, 02:39:27 am »
 ;D ;D ;DBob, if the tiller don't change your bow should outlast me and you ;)

Robonwho, I added you to the list, I'm going harvesting most likely Friday

Mickey, after I heard that tick as I was bracing the BBG, I didn't even expected it to get to 28"...what a surprise, ...but most of all the fact that the boo even if it was so thick that in some places was about the same size of the belly, never overpowered The Guava, this gives me a total new outlook on the compression capability of this wood ;D

NORTH SHORE, HAWAII

Offline Mickey

  • Member
  • Posts: 95
Re: I'm bending 2 Guava bows untill they break !!! ( pics)
« Reply #67 on: July 04, 2007, 10:04:36 am »
the first BBO I made was like that..I .called it an OBB....osage bellied bamboo bow LOL .It's 10 years old and still shooting BTW although it doesn't get shot much.

Offline NOMADIC PIRATE

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,910
Re: I'm bending 2 Guava bows untill they break !!! ( pics)
« Reply #68 on: July 04, 2007, 03:22:59 pm »
OBB :D :D :D :D :D
NORTH SHORE, HAWAII

Offline jpitts

  • Member
  • Posts: 313
Re: I'm bending 2 Guava bows untill they break !!! ( pics)
« Reply #69 on: July 05, 2007, 10:44:16 pm »
WOW....Manny...best thread I've read/ seen  yet.....that Guava is tough stuff. Count me in on a stave, if you have enough.
Jimmy / Dallas, Georgia

Offline NOMADIC PIRATE

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,910
Re: I'm bending 2 Guava bows untill they break !!! ( pics)
« Reply #70 on: July 06, 2007, 03:46:46 pm »
Does anybody wanna ad pictures of similar experiments, either with sound bows or defected ??

jpitts, I'll try cut one for you too :)
NORTH SHORE, HAWAII

Rich Saffold

  • Guest
Re: I'm bending 2 Guava bows untill they break !!! ( pics)
« Reply #71 on: July 06, 2007, 05:14:24 pm »
So Manny is it going to be guaboo? or Boogua for bamboo/guava? :D

Rich-booniper=bamboo backed juniper, or bbj ;)

Offline NOMADIC PIRATE

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,910
Re: I'm bending 2 Guava bows untill they break !!! ( pics)
« Reply #72 on: July 06, 2007, 08:20:32 pm »
How about "BOAVA" ? ;D
NORTH SHORE, HAWAII

Offline jpitts

  • Member
  • Posts: 313
Re: I'm bending 2 Guava bows untill they break !!! ( pics)
« Reply #73 on: July 09, 2007, 08:46:40 pm »
Thanks Manny,
Just let me know what I owe ya  ;D
Jimmy / Dallas, Georgia

aandu

  • Guest
Re: I'm bending 2 Guava bows untill they break !!! ( pics)
« Reply #74 on: August 08, 2007, 07:19:16 am »
I am novice at building bows. Last week me & my friend while discussing the various woods that were
available to us for making bows; I rejected gauva (on the basis that it has lots of splits while drying....)
as a useful bow wood... I could'nt have been off the mark!

Thanks for an great post!