Hi Y'all! (sorry in advance for the long post and any stupid questions therein)
This is my first post here, so I wanted to go ahead and say hi! I'm still pretty new to bow making, and so far my labors have yielded one darn pretty wall hanging :p
In my first attempt, I was making an American Flat Bow out of red oak, using a tutorial I found online (by Sam Harper) and some plans I managed to dig up. After that first bow didn't pan out (had a hinge that gave way while tillering
), I decided I wanted to try to build a 3-piece takedown bow so that if something else DID happen, I wouldn't be out 100% of the work. Don't get me wrong, when it broke, instead of thinking "dangit!" I was thinking "ok... next time, I'll get it right".
But with all that said, I came up with some plans for a takedown bow by taking things I liked from bows I saw all over the internet (and guessing on most of the dimensions), and since I still have very little experience with actually making bows, I wanted to see if I could get some feedback on them, like "wow, that thing's gonna snap like a twig" or "there's no way that wood can even DO that!?"
Ideally, I'm going for 64" NTN, and about 45# @ 29" (I'm 6'2"). I'm sure some experimenting will be needed to hone in the poundage, but these numbers are kind of roughly what I saw would give about that.
If the images aren't clear enough, I have a pdf of them I made from drawing them up in AutoCAD. I am going to pick up some wood to glue up for the riser today, and I'll probably be using bamboo? for the lams.