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Del the cat
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Re: Hickory recurve self-bow experiment
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Reply #15 on:
July 30, 2014, 11:12:27 am »
Looks like the corners between back, belly and side could do with rounding off a bit?
Sharp corners tend to concentrate stress and give somewhere for splinters to lift from.
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Academonicon
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Re: Hickory recurve self-bow experiment
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July 30, 2014, 01:00:03 pm »
Yeah, I thought about that thing with the corners. I softened them a bit, but the limbs were already so narrow I didn't want to reduce the flat surfaces more than I absolutely had to.
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paoliguy
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Re: Hickory recurve self-bow experiment
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Reply #17 on:
July 30, 2014, 01:23:51 pm »
I don't claim to be a bow making expert but I have been an engineer for a bunch of years. Leaving a stress riser will eventually break, it's just a question of when.
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