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Re: Vine Maple Beast....need advise pg.2
« Reply #30 on: February 09, 2012, 01:03:59 am »
You live in Klatskanie?  Ever been to the restaurant there called Humps?


Yeah i think I ate there like once.
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Re: Vine Maple Beast....need advise pg.2
« Reply #31 on: February 09, 2012, 01:19:29 am »
Go with linen if ya really wanna back it.

Nylon is relatively heavy and doesn't stop ripping like you might expect...


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Re: Vine Maple Beast....need advise pg.2
« Reply #32 on: February 09, 2012, 02:21:22 am »
Alright dude!
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Re: Vine Maple Beast....need advise pg.2
« Reply #33 on: February 09, 2012, 03:03:14 am »
Bryce, I would back it with silk, rawhide, or sinew.
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Re: Vine Maple Beast....need advise pg.2
« Reply #34 on: February 09, 2012, 03:29:31 am »
Bryce, I would back it with silk, rawhide, or sinew.

I was looking for silk all day today couldn't find anything that was 100% silk...... And is tightbond II good for silk?
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Re: Vine Maple Beast....need advise pg.2
« Reply #35 on: February 09, 2012, 03:35:50 am »
Try the good will or a second hand store I get my silk there, usually shirts or ties and yes tb2 will work. Why do you want to back it? How is the progress? got that beast strung? pics pics pics ;D

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my friends think my shops a mess, my wife thinks I have too much bow wood, my neighbors think im redneck white trash and they may all be right on the money!!

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Re: Vine Maple Beast....need advise pg.2
« Reply #36 on: February 09, 2012, 04:29:28 am »
Try the good will or a second hand store I get my silk there, usually shirts or ties and yes tb2 will work. Why do you want to back it? How is the progress? got that beast strung? pics pics pics ;D

Josh

I don't want to back it my friend wants some color....but no paint so Meh. W/e lol
Hahaha alright man here's one of the limbs


 
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Re: Vine Maple Beast....need advise pg.2
« Reply #37 on: February 09, 2012, 10:15:13 am »
  I'm no expert on vine maple but I can say this thats to sharp of a been for nay white wood I know. OSAGE WOULD BE A BIG MAYBE. Hope you make it bet and give you odds it won't make it. Like I said hope it dose BUT your asking alot.
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Re: Vine Maple Beast....need advise pg.2
« Reply #38 on: February 09, 2012, 12:39:51 pm »
I once made a bow with a sharper bend than that...

It blew at the fade! I had left the bark on and as the back cracked it to some wood with it.
I'm not sure if it woulda made it to 27"...


De-barking is by far my most hated part of bow building.!

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Re: Vine Maple Beast....need advise pg.2
« Reply #39 on: February 09, 2012, 03:17:28 pm »
  I'm no expert on vine maple but I can say this thats to sharp of a been for nay white wood I know. OSAGE WOULD BE A BIG MAYBE. Hope you make it bet and give you odds it won't make it. Like I said hope it dose BUT your asking alot.


In my 7 years of bow making I've never even touched or seen a piece of Osage......I hear its good lol
You want some vine maple? I got a ton!
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I will admit iam pushing the limits of this wood. But hey, that's what its all about, breaking the rules.and sometimes your bow! HAHAHA.
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Re: Vine Maple Beast....need advise pg.2
« Reply #40 on: February 09, 2012, 03:24:14 pm »
I once made a bow with a sharper bend than that...

It blew at the fade! I had left the bark on and as the back cracked it to some wood with it.
I'm not sure if it woulda made it to 27"...


De-barking is by far my most hated part of bow building.!

Got her tillered to 24" last night then went to bed lol. And now on the lower limb I'm getting a little twist, a bit sketchy.

2" to go!
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Re: Vine Maple Beast
« Reply #41 on: February 10, 2012, 03:03:52 am »
Didn't get a chance to work on her today. Went to the sportsmans show instead. But here's a better look at the bendy bit, for you guys.

 

 
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Re: Vine Maple Beast
« Reply #42 on: February 10, 2012, 03:34:12 am »
Beautiful.  Way to push the limits.  I was going to say it looked like a hockey stick until I saw those last couple pics, it is much prettier than a hockey stick.  Hope it survives. My VM recurve blew, but I think it was the particular piece of wood, and my dry heat recurve bending regime. 
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Re: Vine Maple Beast
« Reply #43 on: February 10, 2012, 03:42:03 am »
Beautiful.  Way to push the limits.  I was going to say it looked like a hockey stick until I saw those last couple pics, it is much prettier than a hockey stick.  Hope it survives. My VM recurve blew, but I think it was the particular piece of wood, and my dry heat recurve bending regime.

Thank you sir. I think when I get her to the last couple inches she'll blow up lol but yah never know lol

"my dry heat recurve bending regime." That cracked me up for some reason lol
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Re: Vine Maple Beast
« Reply #44 on: February 11, 2012, 06:13:42 pm »
couldnt find any silk it was all polyester or rylon but i found some pretty good looking linen. so i just used that.

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