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Re: Lets try it with bamboo.
« Reply #60 on: March 02, 2018, 07:25:00 PM »
He's alive, He's alive!!!      :thumbsup:
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Re: Lets try it with bamboo.
« Reply #61 on: March 02, 2018, 07:34:00 PM »
If I would have died youd know, beautiful women all over the world would be crying and wearing black. LOL
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Re: Lets try it with bamboo.
« Reply #62 on: March 02, 2018, 08:45:00 PM »
You're just a chick magnet..   :)
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Re: Lets try it with bamboo.
« Reply #63 on: March 02, 2018, 09:08:00 PM »
Good one Roy, I knew I liked you for some reason.
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Re: Lets try it with bamboo.
« Reply #64 on: March 06, 2018, 08:33:00 PM »
Ok guys, nothing pic worthy today but I have a question/problem. I could kick my self for gluing in reflex on a bow with two materials ive never used before, to late now. I cut in nocks got a proper string on there, I didn't brace it other than the string is banjo tight. The reflex is up to 1 3/8. I can pull it 12-14 inches or so scale says #35 poundsthen it gets heavy fast. Scale is right I checked with different combos of steel weights ranging from #10-#80.
 For those of you who have made reflex and straight limb bows is there a difference in feel at this stage or is it the ipe boo combo? Or I'm I gun shy from breaking the last one?
 Also should I pull on down to #50. 50 is what I'm going to shot for on this one.
 I'm confused here, this is like my first bow all over again.

  Thanks guys.
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Re: Lets try it with bamboo.
« Reply #65 on: March 06, 2018, 09:35:00 PM »
Well, the inner limbs need to move more, some toward the outer. If I want to hit #50 id better get darn good cause its #40 @16 now with the string super tight on the handle. Which I guess I need to brace it up to at least 4 inches? I lost my mojo.
 
 
 
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Re: Lets try it with bamboo.
« Reply #66 on: March 07, 2018, 10:38:00 AM »
Unbraced profile pic.
 
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Re: Lets try it with bamboo.
« Reply #67 on: March 07, 2018, 11:28:00 AM »
Not bad.  I agree, I wouldn't touch your mid limbs until you get your inners working more.
And I know there's advocates for pulling full draw weight from the get go on the tree, but most of those guys are really experienced, and they are really good at floor tillering or making sure it bends evenly before it goes on the tree.  
I don't like the idea of pulling 50#'s when your taper and/or floor tiller isn't close to perfect.
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Re: Lets try it with bamboo.
« Reply #68 on: March 07, 2018, 11:33:00 AM »
Benton, pulling to the ultimate draw weight will help you achieve that draw weight but unless the limbs bend evenly and together pulling beyond where you are in the tiller process should not be done. You can still pull to your draw weight without hurting anything.
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Re: Lets try it with bamboo.
« Reply #69 on: March 07, 2018, 12:22:00 PM »
BMorv, that's exactly what I was thinking.
Pat, that's exactly what I was thinking.
Seriously guys I new they weren't perfectly even so I didn't want to stress it. This whole reflex thing is strange to me so I'm flying blind here. What ive read makes sense but until I've put my hands on it its just info.
 I think I'm experiencing stack? Who knows, I'm gonna run with it so back up.
If I can get #45 ill be happy.
So far its very springy so hopefully shell be a smoker.
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Re: Lets try it with bamboo.
« Reply #70 on: March 07, 2018, 01:03:00 PM »
Pat, I agree with your comments for the most part.
 
Let's say you didn't floor tiller your bow (or you didn't know how) and your limbs were hinged, and you chunked up the bow on the tree and pulled it to your target draw at 50# and it was at 20".  I don't see how you aren't doing damage to your bow in this scenario.  All I'm saying is that I wouldn't automatically start pulling target weight until the limbs are bending evenly.  A lot of beginners, including me when I 1st started, can't see a good bend when floor tillering.  If you know your limbs are bending even, I fully agree with your comments.  

Yeah John, that combo will make a quick bow.
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Re: Lets try it with bamboo.
« Reply #71 on: March 07, 2018, 01:18:00 PM »
It's not bad, John. Keep tillering..
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Re: Lets try it with bamboo.
« Reply #72 on: March 07, 2018, 01:22:00 PM »
Benton, when you put your bow on the tree you don't instantly pull it to the draw weight. You exercise it slowly and slowly work it out until you see that everything is OK or there is a problem. When you see a hinge you mark the limb there(I use an "X") so you know not to remove more wood from there. When you see a flat spot you mark that(differently, I use a squiggly line) so you know to remove wood from there. Once you have made the correction(s), you go back to the tree, exercise the limbs and check for other possible problems then you can move on towards your draw weight.
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Re: Lets try it with bamboo.
« Reply #73 on: March 07, 2018, 01:30:00 PM »
I think you guys are saying the same thing, but one is speaking hillybilly and one is speaking Cajun. LOL
Because my inner limbs were so stiff I figured if I pulled it to target it would put all the stress on a very small area in the mid limbs.
Had it been a straight limbed bow I would have had it bending much more even from the start. The reflex threw me off so I'm playing catch up with the inners. Next time I will have a better feel for it.
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Re: Lets try it with bamboo.
« Reply #74 on: March 07, 2018, 02:30:00 PM »
#47 @23 inches.
 
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Re: Lets try it with bamboo.
« Reply #75 on: March 07, 2018, 03:01:00 PM »
Yeah Pat, I think we are on the same page.
 
Hard to see for sure with the background, but that bend is looking good John...
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Re: Lets try it with bamboo.
« Reply #76 on: March 07, 2018, 03:52:00 PM »
Gizmo says its even now, guess I should put a few arrows half draw through it.
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Re: Lets try it with bamboo.
« Reply #77 on: March 07, 2018, 05:31:00 PM »
Well just shy of full draw. What do ya think? She is zippy!
 
 
 
 
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Re: Lets try it with bamboo.
« Reply #78 on: March 07, 2018, 05:57:00 PM »
I like it Johnny...and I think you will too.    :thumbsup:

Still got some reflex?  No problems if you don't, just wondering.
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Re: Lets try it with bamboo.
« Reply #79 on: March 07, 2018, 06:22:00 PM »
BMorv, it still has 1/4 reflex after 50 arrows. If she don't make it I'm going straight out and buying more boo and ipe. Of course the perry reflex helped I'm sure, but she is real zippy, Right now its #50.6 @26 so it shouldn't drop more than a pound or two I guess.
Gonna call her Thin Lizzy cause she's an inch 1/8 wide and she rocks.
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