Ash reflex/deflex selfbow
Hi, I found this bent stave already cut in the local woods. My first thought was to turn it into a reflex bow but I thought I'd try something different and try for a deflex/reflex type bow. The...
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Your telling me that shape is completely natural to the bow?????? Your a better man than I Jonnie! Very cool Let us know how it holds up. I would ordinarily be very concerned that too much of the bows...
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Oh and to each their own but the tips on several of your bows are a little wide (in my personal opinion) I think you may get a little more out of the bow If you narrow those tips a little bit. I think...
View ArticleRe: Ash reflex/deflex selfbow
Oh and to each their own but the tips on several of your bows are a little wide (in my personal opinion) I think you may get a little more out of the bow If you narrow those tips a little bit. I think...
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Yes the shape is completely natural to the bow....I heat treated the belly but apart from that everything is as it came out of the wood.
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Do you think if I gave it a sinew backing I could get more draw length out of it? If so, how do you go about putting on a sinew backing? I know you can either glue it on or cable back it with sinew...
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I took yor advice on one of my bows (no point coming on here if I'm not going to listen to advice!!) and narrowed the tips.......you're right, much faster!!! I haven't narrowed the tips on this one...
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Yes sinew will change the entire dynamic of the bow and make it able to take really quite unreal punishment. The asiatic composites are made with sinew and from their crazy recurves you can tell that...
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if your goal is to get more draw length out of it, why not coax a bit more of the limbs into bending? the limbs look wide enough and the profile asks for a more elliptical whole-limb bend anyway....
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