Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: 0209 on December 08, 2009, 10:48:50 pm
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Hey everyone,
I just bought a nice piece of HHB off of ebay and it measures about 4" X 4" X 60" (for only 20 bucks! ;D) and was curious as to what kind of bow to make from it. The piece itself is nice in size as you can tell and well, I planned on cutting multiple staves out of it by the use of a table saw. While this seems the right route to take in my perspective, how would you guys do it?
I was going to try and make like a mini-elb since it's only 60 inches, but if you guys have any other recommendations I'm all ears.
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Marc St Louis makes a lot of bows from HHB and elm. If I had the tools I would attempt to make a deflex recurve like him. Good luck.
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What's your draw? I'd make a flatbow about 1.5 in wide and let it bend in the handle. It's an actual 4x4? It's been cut into block form? Should be good for a couple of bows. Jawge
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Hey everyone,
I just bought a nice piece of HHB off of ebay and it measures about 4" X 4" X 60" (for only 20 bucks! ;D) and was curious as to what kind of bow to make from it. The piece itself is nice in size as you can tell and well, I planned on cutting multiple staves out of it by the use of a table saw. While this seems the right route to take in my perspective, how would you guys do it?
I was going to try and make like a mini-elb since it's only 60 inches, but if you guys have any other recommendations I'm all ears.
SO THAT WAS YOU??????????????? >:( >:( >:( ;)
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new guy here.... could someone translate HHB for me?
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hop hornbeam
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Hop Horn Beam
a.k.a. ironwood
nice stuff,i just so happen to have a stave in the shop just waiting for me to get inspired by it.
but my deminishing rock pile keeps calling to me
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Banoch, was that you that I bought the HHB from? O:) ;) ;)
Looked like a great piece of wood to work with and I decided to bid on her and what do ya know...I got lucky.
Well if it was you I bought the HHB from, I suppose it's a small world. I try and do the wood justice...:)
Have a good one.
-Ian
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Ah, and to answer your questions, my draw is about 27" or so. But I like to tiller my bows to 28" just in case I wanna give'em away to friends. So for the purpose of this thread, we'll say it's 28.
I'm looking for a heavy bow, somewhere in the range of like 80-100#. I know 60" is a little short to work with, but is it possible?
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sounds like you have enough wood to saw 4 1x2's (1.5" x 1.5")...why not try to make four bows of different styles and poundages?
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Sure it is possible,IW is pretty tough but I wouldn't try and get 80lbs at 28 on a piece that short.
Is it a stave with the back already to go or sawed like a board ? You might want to back it if you want to draw it that far with that much weight. :)
Pappy
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No way I would turn a stave into boards :o
Like Pappy said that asking to much for a 60" stave, especially if your just beginning. I would rather get a usuable 50# bow than $20 of firewood :)
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Be sure you let the handle bend. Forget about 28 in. Tiller to 26 in. You may ease into 27" depending on tiller. No narrowed handle. No recurving or reflexing. 80# is asking a lot at 28 " for a 60" stave. Like I said, yo have 2 staves there if you rip it. Back it with silk, linen, burlap or rawhide. Above all have fun. L
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Ironwood is a great bow wood. Keep the saw away from it. Make a nice selfbow out of it.
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man, i've dying to get my hands on some HHB ever since i saw marc's deflex recurve. I do have elm and osage though. will probably try it with those pretty soon. I have seen a few bamboo backed HHB's that were cut from boards. there is a feller in central texas that gets it shipped to him from Minnesota and has is cut at the mill. been trying to swap him something for some.
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Hi,
I got some wood several years ago down my road in the swamp...about 3 inches in diameter, heavy as heck, hard as dogwood, lots of growth rings and looked like it had muscles twirling around it...I was told it was iron wood. Does this sound like it? If so I am agoin' huntin' :) (This wood is from the swamps of central SC)
Rand
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cat could be american hornbeam
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sulpher
i think i know who he (who ever that is) is getting the hhb from here in mn.
its probably the same due i got my logs from,he told me he ships some to texas for a guy.
catahoula
that sounds like its muscle wood,a.k.a. iron wood
iron wood was a term given to several differant woods,all of which are hell to cut and give a good saw a heck of a work out
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Be sure you let the handle bend. Forget about 28 in. Tiller to 26 in. You may ease into 27" depending on tiller. No narrowed handle. No recurving or reflexing. 80# is asking a lot at 28 " for a 60" stave. Like I said, yo have 2 staves there if you rip it. Back it with silk, linen, burlap or rawhide. Above all have fun. L
Hey George, can i ask another silly question re your post here? ofr should i be doing this by pm? newby that i am i'll ask now, pay later.....when you guys are refering to tillering for different draw lengths, does that mean you don't draw the bow on the tiller tree further than 26" ,"ease into 27".....i've come to think of tillering as the process of balancing the limbs building composite bows... is it different in self bows and board bows?
sory to "horn" in on your thread here. :-[ Kirk