D bow handle?

[woody]

Kegan, I see your dilemma with heavier draw weights.  Do you think wrapping some sort of metal wire around the handle would be enough weight addition...it seems like it would flex throughout the draw, but I've never tried it.

[Kegan]

The trouble with wire is that any handshock would bite into the hand. The only wire I have is very hard to bend as well, at least without little kinks that would make it even more painful.

[KenH]

Kegan - how about wrapping the handle area with sheet lead, and then covering it with leather or cord wrapping?  Soft enough to bend readily.  More added weight than anything else short of depleted uranium (and a lot more primitive than d-U).

[zenmonkeyman]

Gold coins!  Then if you miss with the bow, you can stop at the butcher shop on the way home.

[Bernhard Langbogen]

Please do not!
If the longbow is already finished and bend in the handle , gluing no handle.
Either the bow breaks in the fadeout or the handle bursts away.
The leather is only exacerbated.

Bernhard

[Kegan]

Please do not!
If the longbow is already finished and bend in the handle , gluing no handle.
Either the bow breaks in the fadeout or the handle bursts away.
The leather is only exacerbated.

Bernhard

That's the point. The leather allows the bow to bend like it's supposed to, but have a little weight with a wooden egg-grip on top of it .

[TheWildCat]

I tried that on a self bow. Worked, but the leather eventually gave up where it was laminated to the handle as the wood handle did not flex causing the leather to pull away from it. Course one failure dose not mean it willl not work. Hope y'all figure it out.

[Bernhard Langbogen]

It depends only on the bend in the handle.

Bernhard

[hedgeapple]

Kegan, while we're discussing out-of-box handle designs.  What about this idea.  Take the egg shaped wooden insert and make a few cross-section cuts across it.  Then glue the piece back together with leather disc between--kind of like disc in a spinal column.  This would allow the wooden insert to flex a bit.  Just a thought.
Dave

[Kegan]

Dave, that's a pretty good idea! I'm curious to see how thin the wooden lams would have to be to flew properly, but that sure would look neat too!

Right now I'm thinking I went a bit far with the egg shape. If the purpose of the leather is just to cushion the bend, then the handle would only need to be radiused enough to fit along the belly of the bow at full draw, with any extra radiusing being a bit of a waste. I'm working on a couple D bows now that I might put a handle on, dpepending on how they turn out. If I do, I'll give this a try on one.