Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: makenzie71 on April 27, 2010, 01:19:28 pm
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I've got materials coming for my horsebows...some better materials but I have to wait a little while for them to come in.
In the mean time I want to start another little project. I'm wanting a softer wood for a core and am thinking poplar. I want it to be really wide and thin, especially around mid- limb, tapering to pretty narrow, but thick, tips. There'll be tempered bamboo on the belly and a strip of bamboo along the back, then the limbs above the handle will be wrapped in raw hide.
I love working with red oak but every thin limb I've made with red oak has taken a tremendous amount of set...the bamboo and hide will likely stop it on this one, but I also have concerns with the limb width. I want it to be nearly 4" wide in the limbs...at least 3".
The bow is going to be mostly decoration and target, 60" end to end (maybe a bit shorter), and I'm hoping for 35~40lbs.
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Be careful with poplar, makenzie. At best, it is a marginal bow wood. Jawge
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Be careful with poplar, makenzie. At best, it is a marginal bow wood. Jawge
:D I'm expecting a marginal bow.
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You are capable of more than marginality. I was talking from the standpoint of safety. Sure you can make a bow from it but it does tend to explode unexpectedly. Jawge
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it takes a hell of a set too jawge , i tried it as a core wood before i knew better. mak i would go with maple jmo