New bue from a 7000 year old design

[Pat B]

Buggs, I'm on here and on PA but that's all. Thanks for the kind words. 

[Buggs]

I thought I remembered seeing you on the mysteriously disappeared POA.

[Mad Max]

Looking good pat
How wide at the widest place are the limbs?

[Pat B]

Between 1 3/4" and 2". I started out at 2" but have reduced the width a bit truing up the sides.
Buggs, POA?

[Mad Max]

 

[Pat B]

I got off my boney butt and did some more work on this bow. I did a little tillering to get both limbs fairly even for now. Then I clamped the bow to a one limb reflex form to heat treat again and do some lateral adjustment at the same time. I'll try to get to the other limb tomorrow or the next day. Here are a few pics...

[Mad Max]

 

[Roy from Pa]

Looking good Pat.

[Pat B]

I'm slow but at least I'm unpredictable. 

[Pat B]

I did work the other limb this morning, adding reflex, tempering and aligning.

[Pat B]

After taking bue off of the form I tweaked the tiller a but more...




then put her back of another reflex form and gave the belly a good heat treating and made slight lateral adjustments...



After I do the other limb she'll be ready for adding the sinew backing. Once the sinew dries well I'll tweak the tipper a bit more and do a final shaping on the tips. Typically my sinew process takes a few months but I will document that process as well.

[Mad Max]

I need to learn how to do sinew 

[OldRawhide42]

I am still learning how to tiller a wood bow. My last tri-lam became a bi-lam.

[Pat B]

I took the advice of a PA member and re-tempered each limb on the reflex form to a darker color and did a little lateral adjusting. Here is what she looks like right off the form after a day or two of cooling.



We've been having a bit of wet weather over the last few days with a few more to come and I don't want to strain her under these wet conditions. Once it dries out I'll start prepping for adding the sinew.

[Buggs]

Looks like you got excellent symmetry with the retempering

[Mad Max]

Yep

[Pat B]

OK guys, believe it or not I'm back working on ElgBue. I clamped the bow on the tiller tree with a long string to see how she bends now that the sinew has had a chance to dry...




...and after a scrape here and there to try to even out the limbs...




 I'm hoping to get her braced so I can really judge the bend and draw weight but until then that's all I have for now.
Stay tuned!

[Mad Max]

Really nice look unbraced Pat
You got it going on
Is that 2 or 3 your going to bring to the Classic??

[Pat B]

Two new ones and a couple of older bows.

[Pat B]

I need to brace this bow so I can see how the string tracks and get a real idea about the tiller. Yesterday I got a call from Brad Smith. Brad is a sinew backed bow enthusiasts and has taken an interest in this build. He asked me how I planned to brace the bow with this much reflex then suggested temporary nocks. He said what he does is tie a piece of leather below the nocks and use a tiller string at those temporary nocks to bend the bow while putting a string on the regular nocks...so that's what I did...


...then I tied on a para cord tiller string using bowyers knots. This worked great but once I got the string on I could tell the string was tracking to the left of the bow.



now I'll go back and shape the tips and do some heat correcting on the levers to get the string to line up.  More to come.