120# Elm Warbow

[Marc St Louis]

This is a bow I recently made for someone in CZ.  This is about as heavy an Elm bow as I've ever made.  It's 74" N to N and pulls 120# @ 32".  Here's a few pictures, I won't bother with one of me trying to pull it back by hand as I can only get it back about 18".









This is the full draw

[adb]

Nice bow, Marc. Is it a selfbow or did you back it? Also, what kind of elm?

[Marc St Louis]

It's backed with a few layers of tung oil and shellac, in other words it's a selfbow.  It's not White Elm and it's not Rock Elm.  Could be Grey Elm or Red Elm.  Frankly I gave up a long time ago trying to identify the different species and subspecies of Elm.  All I know and care about is that it is a decent piece of Elm

[Del the cat]

Mighty fine to get 120 out of a piece of Elm with almost no set.
It's obviously/presumably not the same as the Elm we used to get in the UK (Dutch Elm disease killed most of it) it looks much paler.
Still damn fine to get 120 out of anything without much set, and it's not overlong either.
I'm V impressed, just wish I could pull 120 .
We had a guy at the club the other day saying his bow was 102, I didn't want to join in the macho stuff at first but eventually took it, puuled it back to my ear and pronounced 'no way is that more than 90! '
He went and weighed it...came back and told me it was 80!.
Del

[Marc St Louis]

It's actually more like 125# but I can't shoot it in and I figure it will lose a bit as the guy I made it for shoots the bow in.  I can pull a 90# @ 32" bow back but when the draw weight climbs to well over 100# I can only get the bow back to 80# at best.

[fusizoli]

Very nice! Schould we know some datas from the size of the center and tipps.

[medicinewheel]

Tiller looks great!

[Marc St Louis]

The bow is 38mm wide by 32mm thick at the center and 13mm at the base of the nocks

[RyanY]

Again Marc, beautiful bow. One thing I wonder about your warbows is that the tiller seems to have most of the bend centered in the middle with the outer limbs seeming to bend little where as I thought that tiller for these types of bows would be the opposite. Is this because you heat a little reflex into the bow?

[Marc St Louis]

Ryan
If you look at the unbraced profile you'll see that the tips are reflexed a bit but in the full draw they are working slightly.  Any more and they will start to take some set and that's not so good when the bows are heavy

[fusizoli]

Thanks Marc

[Lombard]

Really nice looking bow. I couldn't pull that to full draw either. Heck I'm over bowed at sixty pounds.

[nidrinr]

Very nice bow!

[Rod]

Nice tiller....

[Marc St Louis]

Thanks guys