Rigid Recurve

[Auggie]

Killer bow! Gotta say Im  full of envy,your friend is fortunate to have a friend like you.

[Marc St Louis]

Nice bow. I also would have thought it would have some handshock with the siyahs as they look a bit bulky. Did you need the thread wrap for strength?

[George Tsoukalas]

That is an awesome bow. The tiller looks great and the workmanship is excellent. Jawge

[Hillbilly]

That's definitely a unique bow. I like it. My first though was also wondering about handshock with the big siyahas. Great job, that's pretty slick.

[mrmarch]

wow dude!!!!!!!

[FVR]

That is a beautiful bow.

Wow!

[tpoof]

A very unusual and interesting bow! definately eye candy. thanks for sharing!   

[OldBow]

Must be the cold that produced such a bow as this
as it produced human culture in the Northern Climes. 
Absolutely a pleasure to look at this bow.
 I'm in Denver but sent this on to my Missoula, MT computer for
 Definitely Backed Bow of the Month consideration.

What is canary wood?

[Shooter]

Thank ya'll for your kind words.

re: handshock
Handshock was never really a problem with any of the rigid recurves I've built so far. The first couple had some but I found that the angle of the recurves can be adjusted to smooth it out. Also, the deflex smooths out the action a bit. It's a bit of a balancing act between those two aspects and the usual belly-to-back ratios, tapers, and limb length. Even though the bow is 66" o/a, there's only 18" of working limb.

Marc St Louis, I usually don't bind the limbs at the root. I just put that on to cover the cotton back in this case. The only other times I've done it was to hold down bolsters I add to the limbs to stiffen them up a bit after the bow is shot in. I put the smaller bindings on this one to move the 'center of percussion' up the limbs a bit.

Salut,
Bruce

[OldBow]

So, this bow is described as hickory backed canary wood, right?

[Shooter]

OldBow, yes.

Found this:
http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/canary.htm

Will post a pic of a human full drawing it...nice and warm-ish today

[Shooter]

Rounded up a cameraman today who did a way better job than I can do.

first pic is relaxed and the third pic is after it's been well stretched and shot. And a full draw with yours truly.



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[Justin Snyder]

The bow-proper is finish tillered at 58" and then bobbed to 56" before the statics go on, and I tiller it as such until I can get the desired weight at a 24" draw.  Bruce

Cool looking bow.  I'm curious if it had so much deflex in the limbs when you started tillering.  It seems like adding the siyahas after the tillering would make it bend in a different area on the limb. I don't suppose you have pictures of what the tiller looked like before the siyahas were added. Justin

[Shooter]

Hey, Justin

The bow starts out with about 2 1/2" of curved reflex. By the time I have it finish tillered, and before the recurves are mounted, the limbs are pretty much straight. After it's been well shot and tweaked, it's deflexed in the neighborhood of 7/8" - 1 1/4". This one's  about right in the middle.

I don't have any pics of the different stages. Maybe I'll chronicle the next one.

Bruce

[Minuteman]

 I'd be afraid the handle section and the limbs would come apart without a backing going over the handle like in a conventional backed  bow. Guess its holding up though.
 What kinda glue did you use?