Del's English Maple Primitive

[HoBow]

Nice bow and nice log car.  Looks much easier than the way  I usually carry them out (on the shoulder).   

[coaster500]

Nice blog and build Del!!

Very good looking bow from a tough piece of wood. Did you inlay that strike plate or am I seeing things?

Every time I approach a round tiller I end up whip tillered but looks like yours is working for you.

I like it!!

[dwardo]

Looks like a nice straight bit of wood that mate.
I hear your pain on chrystals my last elm and ash bows both started showing them near completion.

Wonder if the humidity could be a culprit. Must not have been below 80% for months now.

[Del the cat]

Nice blog and build Del!!

Very good looking bow from a tough piece of wood. Did you inlay that strike plate or am I seeing things?

Every time I approach a round tiller I end up whip tillered but looks like yours is working for you.

I like it!!

Yup thats a Waterbuffalo horn arrow plate inlaid there.
Del

[Badger]

  Del, I think the idea with elyptical or circular is to try and equal out the stresses on the limb as much as possible. If the outer limb is bending more it needs to be a bit wider and thinner. Great looking bow.

[gordread]

Great looking bow.

Gordon

[danny f]

nice work del it looks great.

[Del the cat]

  Del, I think the idea with elyptical or circular is to try and equal out the stresses on the limb as much as possible. If the outer limb is bending more it needs to be a bit wider and thinner. Great looking bow.

Yup, I get that, but the tricky question is how eliptical? A circle is pretty absolute (although I s'pose you can change the radius) but 'eliptical' is almost meaningless as you can vary both axes and the amount of the arc so it's hard to get any meaningful help from the term...
Maybe it's all just down to 'eye' but I feel I know where I am with an arc of a circle.
I might cut out some different elipses and see how they look.
Is there some arc of magic ellipse which is ideal? (maybe some ratio of major axis to minor axis)
Come to think of it, I'm probably happier if it's all down to eye, I'm not sure we can analyise our art and turn it into just numbers
Del

[Steve Milbocker]

Sweet bow Del, I like it a lot!

[Zion]

Looks really nice! Personally i think some of the nicest of bows are the simplest...let the beauty shine from the bend... nice work 

[soy]

Cod piece     I really enjoy the grain and the character of that piece of wood!

[lostarrow]

Nice" organic" lines. Those curves give it a life of it's own.

[Blacktail]

that is a lovely bow..we have lots of maple in western oregon..i should give it a try some time..thanks for sharing..john

[TBod]

I like the character tip a lot. Nice story! The tiller maybe a bit whipped more than elliptical? I think it's the same Maple I got here, it needed to be pretty wide (low density wood) if I remembered it right.

[Del the cat]

Thanks for the comments guys.
I was feelin' a bit down yesterday with a dose of man flu and those damn chrysals... bit more back to my usual cheery self today.
It'll be interesing to make another one from the better half of the log and see how it turns out.
I might shoot it through the chono later on.
Just shot it through the chrono.
155 typical from my usual draw. Using the full 28" of the arrow I was getting 160
highest 166 fps
Those chrysals are driving me nuts, I might do a thread whipping to hide the damn things so I don't start having nightmares about them.
That reminds me... I had a weird dream this morning (that's what happens with a cold...) I was back at my parents house and my Mum had reorganised the garden shed with all my bows in it and I couldn't find any of my fave's... woke up in a cold sweat... but boy you should have seen some of the weird and wonderful bows I did find... one was like a corkscrew
Del