58 inch binghams project brace ???

[Dmaxshawn]

I read the whole plan and didnt see the brace height in there.  Just curious what everyones useing? I'm at 8.5 and theres still some twang maybe I'm used to my longbows.  

Shawn

[Robertfishes]

I found 7 3/4 to 8 1/8 to work on the 4 I built. I have a friend build my strings, the quietist string so far is a 452X ,18 strands with the ends built up to 24 strands, using homemade wool silencers. Jeff made me several strings using various materials. I did not try them all, I have a FFplus string thats also fairly quiet.  did you get the watusi horn bow started? I ran out of time on the longbow build, hunting season now bow building season later this year. i edited this after calling Jeff..

[bjansen]

Shawn,

I have been usign somewhere between 7 3/4 and 8 on my 60" Bingham recurves..I had been wrapping some wool yarn around the string where it contacts the limbs which reduced that twang quite a bit.

[Robertfishes]

I had to edit my first response. I had the string material and strand count wrong..I called Jeff and got the right info, he also told me my string has 9 inch tag ends. Shawn did you use the supplied template for the limb widths? I did on the first one. I went back and edge sanded the limbs in a pyrimid profile, from 1 3/4 inchs at fades to 9/16 inch at string groove. I have a 26 inch draw length and so far no problems. My hunting set up with  wool and alpaca wool silencers is 9.32 grains/pound and cast is 165-168 fps on my friends chrono. I shot the same arrow using my 52 lb BW TF and 50lb RER Arroyo I got the same numbers but the RER hit 170 a couple of times.

[Dmaxshawn]

10-4 thanks guys.  

Watusi horn bow got put on hold til after the season

I used the binghams plans to a T and had to sand the limbs a little (riser was a little long)

I did the wool yarn wrap around the ends of the string.  

Shawn is off to the woods on this friday afternoon.

[Robertfishes]

good luck, its gonna be a hot one today its 94 here in Silver Springs..But the bucks have been walking/trailing for the last 2 weeks.I had a buck at 10 yards tuesday he was cold trailing a doe that came by 30 min earlier, he came in grunting every 3rd step, he was a 5 point no brow tines..we have a 6 point rule at our lease... Shawn, post some pics and specs when you have time.