why is one limb longer??

[SEMO_HUNTER]

Yes Jawge I agree, and we haven't even gotten into what happens when shooters "walk the string" for shooting different yardages.  

[George Tsoukalas]

Semo, you actually read that whole post? String walking with a selfbow could be dangerous. It is bad enough we've made our selfbows look like glass bows (not me) and now we are going to shoot them like glass bows. I'll stop because I feel a major rant coming on and all before Sunday church.    Jawge

[Roy from Pa]

Good Sermon Jawge:)

[Adam Keiper]

This article explains things quite well:

 http://www.bowyersedge.com/organic.html

[George Tsoukalas]

Yes, Dean does, Adam,  if you buy into the lever theory as the sole driver for explaining how a bow behaves which I do not. I guess you didn't read my post. LOL. Thanks, Roy.    Jawge

[SEMO_HUNTER]

Yes Jawge, I read the whole thing. I was just trying to see if I could get a rise out of ya bout the string walking......I think it worked.    

I don't, nor ever had the desire to do that and I don't see how it could be any good for the bow, especially a self bow.

[Roy from Pa]

I think the only reason some bows are made with a shorter lower limb is so short guys can shoot a long bow...  

[SEMO_HUNTER]

Originally posted by Roy from Pa:
I think the only reason some bows are made with a shorter lower limb is so short guys can shoot a long bow...      

 Now that just ain't right Roybert!  

[George Tsoukalas]

Ah, my friend, you like my rants perhaps because they ring true.. My Dad, Lord rest him,  came over from Greece. Long story. His mother, father and brother still lived there. Dad would go back every year to visit. Of course,  my brothers and I would miss him. I guess we kind of liked it when he yelled at us. Made us feel loved. When he got back from a long visit we would do things so he'd yell at us.    Jawge

[SEMO_HUNTER]

I'm a bit of a ranter myself George so I completely understand.

[oneraindog]

roy to answer your question i now have a much clearer understanding of why a bow may or may not  be built one way or another but i am much more confused about how i should build this bow    

but i figure that wont get much clearer until there are many more bow building years behind me. which i am very excited about.

so i guess ill just build this bow and see what happens!

[Roy from Pa]

Joby, build one bow with a shorter bottom limb, then one with equal limbs. It's all fun and you will learn so much working on your bows. Ask questions all you like. You will learn how your bow needs to be built..  

I used to make my bows with the bottom limb 1 1/2 shorter than the top limb. Now I make my bows with equal length limbs. In my opinion, my bows shoot better with equal length limbs. But that is just my bows and my shooting style. Trust me Joby, you can't just make one bow, it will never happen. You make one and you make two and then three and it never ends:)

Just don't listen to anything Semo Elmo says, cause he from Missouri:) He can't bass fish either:)

His biggest Bass. LOL
I use them for bait here in Pa...

 

[oneraindog]

ha. by "just" this bow i meant more like ill just go ahead and jump in and see what happens. ill decide as i go.

trust me this is far from the last one. this will be my 4th (3rd is still in progress, sinew curing)  

my biggest problem is making myself slow down and not rush just to get the next project started