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That left limb is looking much better, nice job. Now it looks like that right limb is a little stiff out of the inner third.
-------------------- "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy" Red Green Posts: 7499 | From: Nevada | Registered: Apr 2003
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I haven't made a bow yet, but wow! Following this thread I can't believe you pulled this one out of the fire! It's looking pretty darn good to me. I can wait to hear about the arrows fired thru it. Keep up the good work.
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woah, it just hit me. I realized I am measuring draw length from the belly of the handle rather than the back, which means that in the pic below it's actually drawn 29 inches. If we add 2" for the riser, and if we account for a few pounds lost in shooting it in - shazam! We are very close to a finished bow
Here it is drawn to 27 inches on the tree, or 29 inches real draw. Man it's scary watching the limbs bend that far
There's still some tillering finessing that should be done. What do you guys think?
-------------------- Dances with Turtles Posts: 1995 | From: Ontario | Registered: Aug 2004
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I think I am in LOVE!!!!! Looks real nice Fred! As I am typing this, I remembered I haven't made the time yet to mail your present yet. I will rectify that in a day or so. I am BEAR hunting tomorrow!!!!!!!! I hope to bloody my tri-lam!!!
I like the string angle as well.
Brian
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In His service, Brian Rice
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No problem. Bear hunting is certainly more important than a movie! With a bow like that you don't even need luck, but I'll say it anyways. Good luck!!!
Yeah I'm very please with the string angle and how it came out so even between the two limbs. That's a problem I've had before.
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I just read this whole thread from start to finish for the first time....I'm impressed!!! You certainly don't give up easily Luke.
Now, I'm gonna throw an observation out there but remember this, you have built more bows than I have so I probably don't know what I'm talking about.
Something that keeps bugging my eyes is how one limb seems to be coming off the handle area at a slightly different angle than the other. I'm not sure if I'm describing that correctly though. In that last pic, it looks like the left limb kinda goes uphill right out of the handle and the right comes out level. It shows up the same way in most of the other pics depending on how you have the bow flipped on the tree. I'm wondering, is your handle the same thickness on both ends? If not, is that making it look that way by not laying flat in the tree?
That left limb sure looks like it's bending nicely to me. The right maybe looks like it's stiff between the two bumps but maybe it has to be that way.
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boy Luke you really made a heckuva recovery on that piece of wood bro...nice , very nice...I sent ya a PM let me know what you decide...gut
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Dang Dave, you got good eyes! When I sanded down the bow for it to accept the handle I didn't do a very good job of keeping it even. You're right, the handle does kinda lean to one side. I fixed it when I shaped the handle last night. And you wouldn't think it but the bow does have about 1/8" positive tiller.
Thanks guys! I'm very happy with how this one turned out.
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Vertical pic. It looks like I'm skimping out a bit and not reaching full draw, but you get the idea.
Wow what a nice shooter this bow turned out to be. I'm not drawing it all the way to 29 yet but it really spits fire. No detectable stack and a very smooth draw all the way back
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How to stay with it, good job Luke! Tiller looks good in the last pic.
David
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"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell Posts: 4306 | From: Somersworth, NH | Registered: May 2003
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Stupid technerolomogy! All along I've been measuring draw weight using an old bathroom scale. That scale reads the bow shooting about 47@29. I thought it felt a bit light for that, so I checked it with our good bathroom scale. 43@29!! Gerrrr. I was really looking for a bow in the 47-48 pound range, and I want to get it there, if it's possible. I'm thinking of another layer of sinew. What say ye? I figure the sinew would help protect the bow from the extra stress the added weight gives, so that's a plus. I think piking the tips wouldn't do very much because the added stress would just cause more set, thereby dropping weight.
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