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Offline DavidV

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #15 on: December 06, 2014, 09:02:03 pm »
Simple bend in the handle bows, like eastern woodland bows are my favorite to build. I mostly build american longbows though.
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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #16 on: December 06, 2014, 10:05:58 pm »
Any design that can stand up to the abuse from my tillering is fine. :o
My two favorites are hickory backed osage flat bows; a rigid handle longbow with 3" Perry reflex and a recurve.
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Offline burchett.donald

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #17 on: December 06, 2014, 10:15:17 pm »
 Bendy's are cool but I like a stiff handle flaty...around 64-68" I'm better with them...
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Offline arachnid

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #18 on: December 07, 2014, 04:39:25 am »
After my little experience I`ve come to like the simple pyramid long-flatbow (66"-68"). Simple and effective design, easy to tiller. Can be either a selfbow or laminated.
My current shooter is a 40#@26" white oak backed ipe pyramid. Went out for a shoot in the woods last Friday...playing with a stick makes a grown man happy!  :laugh:
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Offline redhawk55

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #19 on: December 07, 2014, 07:55:03 am »
1.Mollegabet with very long skinny recurved tips(Inuit- style)!!!!

2.The old flightbow- shorties with strong and static recurves.

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Offline IdahoMatt

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #20 on: December 07, 2014, 10:16:24 am »
Wooden bows ;D
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #21 on: December 07, 2014, 01:31:01 pm »
I'm with you, Matt.
Lately my favorites have been short, sinew backed recurves or with kicked tips but my all time favorite is simple, straight limbed selfbow, 60" to 66" at about 55#@26".
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Offline Prarie Bowyer

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #22 on: December 07, 2014, 02:19:34 pm »
I like my reflex deflex bows.  I'm getting into recurves but having issues with execution.
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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #23 on: December 08, 2014, 08:03:30 am »
Yep what Matt said pretty much suites me also. :)
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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #24 on: December 08, 2014, 10:18:08 am »
None....I hate making bows  >:(
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« Reply #25 on: December 08, 2014, 11:09:20 am »
You are on a roll today  The Bad Chris  :) :)
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Offline JoJoDapyro

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #26 on: December 08, 2014, 01:15:58 pm »
Only made 2 full sized ones so far. I really want to make a full sized Mollie. I also for some reason like the idea of short bows. I have so many I need to build. Good thing I'm young.
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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #27 on: December 08, 2014, 01:22:23 pm »
I usually work on several bows the same time. I have no fav design. One day it is a static the other a sinew lined shorty. I do what come in my sense. Sometimes I work excessivly just on one like in a hurry, but the next day I have appetite on a complete different design. Meanwhile I have hundreds of well seasoned staves, so I can do what I want to do. That's great!
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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #28 on: December 08, 2014, 02:09:08 pm »
Simon, it seems to me that you like making really nice bows.  :laugh:
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Offline Springbuck

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #29 on: December 10, 2014, 05:40:22 pm »
  I like Mollies, and I like making chin to nose-high whitewood flat bows and then flipping semi-recurves into the tips, until they just come out even with the handle.

For laminated bows, I like the standard hickory or bamboo paired with woods from as heavy as BL on up to ipe and bulletwood.
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