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Offline Bitterguy

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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #180 on: March 04, 2013, 09:41:43 pm »
I'm setting my bow up in the vice right before the wood I have to remove and I scrape wood off with one of the corners, am I not pushing hard enough?
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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #181 on: March 04, 2013, 10:59:01 pm »
Well I spent some time fixing up my cabinet scraper technique and here she is with some more work, still at 18"
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #182 on: March 04, 2013, 11:11:21 pm »
Seeing some improvement.  Leave the handle section along again and go take a bit more off the outer thirds.  Go easy, you are stalking the tiller.  She's been hunted hard for a long time and is pretty skittish.  Take your time.
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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #183 on: March 05, 2013, 11:52:47 am »
Your left limb is good, your right is stiff midway. Work that area, brace the bow at 5 1/2" and draw it back to 20" shooting it 10-12 times at that length. Then tree and snap a pic.
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Offline Bitterguy

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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #184 on: March 05, 2013, 12:03:15 pm »
Shooting or exercising it?
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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #185 on: March 05, 2013, 12:05:30 pm »
Scrape the right side midway, brace it to 5 1/2 - 5 3/4" and shoot it at a 20" draw several times, at least 10-15. The tree it again and snap a pic.
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Offline Bitterguy

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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #186 on: March 05, 2013, 12:19:41 pm »
My fletching jig should come sometime this week(got another paycheck so I splugered a bit), how did you mark the spine and how do I orient the feathers/nock according to the spine?
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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #187 on: March 05, 2013, 12:21:12 pm »
You should start another thread in the arrows section for this. It would be easier to seperate info for other users.
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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #188 on: March 05, 2013, 12:31:34 pm »
Looks like someone better start practicing making arrows. Lol!! Lookin good!
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #189 on: March 05, 2013, 06:11:10 pm »
Quote from: Bitterguy on March 05, 2013, 12:19:41 pm
My fletching jig should come sometime this week(got another paycheck so I splugered a bit), how did you mark the spine and how do I orient the feathers/nock according to the spine?

Splugering is illegal in South Dakota and morally reprehensible.  Your kind doesn't belong here.

On wood arrows, the spine is supposed to be measured so that you take advantage of the grain of the wood providing the most stiffness.  Look at the end cuts on the arrows and the grain should looklike roughly parallel lines.  The force applied to the arrow to get it to bend and measure spine stiffness is parallel to the grain.  So when you cut your nocks into the arrow, you should be cutting across the grain of the wood.  Since I make self nocks that's pretty easy to do.  With glued on nocks, you will have to figure out how to make sure the nock is perpendicular to the grain of the arrows.  Clear as mud?
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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #190 on: March 05, 2013, 06:32:17 pm »
Like this?
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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #191 on: March 05, 2013, 06:34:04 pm »
Bingo!
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Offline Bitterguy

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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #192 on: March 05, 2013, 06:45:59 pm »
Alright I got a nock with some Rico cement drieng and one of pearls cedar shaft, now before I go and order any tips off of 3river what else should I get from there, these shipping fees are killing me!
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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #193 on: March 05, 2013, 06:52:39 pm »
Ha! Where to begin!

This has been a nice follow along guys! Thanks for taking the time PD (and the gang.)

Scott
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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #194 on: March 05, 2013, 06:56:32 pm »
Quote from: Bitterguy on March 05, 2013, 06:45:59 pm
Alright I got a nock with some Rico cement drieng and one of pearls cedar shaft, now before I go and order any tips off of 3river what else should I get from there, these shipping fees are killing me!

ya know if there's an archery shop around you can get all this stuff minus the shipping
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