Picture Test

[Mark Smeltzer]

Hmmm, I couldn't that to work yesterday.

[kennym]

Sweet bow Mark!

Size matters on pics now, my computer pics are too big, but my ifone asks and I post small pic...

[Roy from Pa]

Kenny is right.

Too large of picture files don't work.

Cell phones take huge pictures.

I had to go into my phones camera setting and choose the smallest setting for picture size.

Nice bow, you make it?

[Mark Smeltzer]

Thanks! It is pretty picky about the size....I guess size does matter.
Yea, I made that one a while ago.  I had to take a little break for some health issues but I've been back at it and a few in the spray booth.

[Roy from Pa]

Cool, it looks very nice.

My latest 2 bows.

Tri lam, Yew, yew, backed with boo.



Osage, red elm, backed with boo, grandson shooting.

[Mark Smeltzer]

Awesome bows. Great to see them in action too! How much reflex do you start off with?

[Roy from Pa]

Fresh out of the form there is about 3.5". I will lose about 1.5" in tillering.

[Mark Smeltzer]

I loose a little more than half of my reflex on mine. I think I've pushed the design about as far as I'm willing to go. On a 68" tip to tip will have about 6" off the form and end up with about 2" on the ones that I tillered out to 30"
Shorter bow is less reflex, shorter draw length and less set.

[Roy from Pa]

I've found that too much reflex is a bugger to tiller.

[Crooked Stic]

Not so much if you use glass.   

[Roy from Pa]

Gwass?

What's gwass?

 

[kennym]

Ain't bamboo gwass? ? 

[Mark Smeltzer]

 
That's funny....and true. Those are a bugger to tiller. I've done enough of them and got the lam situation down to where it's not too bad now. Kenny's double taper sled helped a ton with that.
My original goal was to build a boo backed bow that once shot in would mimic a glass bow.

[Roy from Pa]

What's glass?