Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: DuBois on January 27, 2013, 04:56:49 am
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I have a 52" ERC bow that I backed with silk. It was my first bow that lived and I realize now that I was compressing the limbs by going to full draw without breaking them in much at all and probably messed up my first few bows that way :-\ Of course they took set more than I wanted.
I have since read several books and been picking bits off here too.
So, can I remove the silk and do sinew or is it just better to leave it as is?
I've never sinewed a bow but it sounds like ERC is a real good match for it.
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Do you like the way it shoots???? If you do why change it?
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Enjoy that bow for what it is and if you want something different/better then make a new bow. Sinew is valuable and time consuming. It should be put on a good bow that was designed to take advantage of it not used as a fix for a bow that is suffering. That is my opinion anyway.
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Hey, good points from you both and thanks. I will leave it alone and just enjoy it.
Should probably not be messing with the first successful bow anyway, it is pretty special I guess.
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My very first bow was a 68" hickory bow. It had at least 4" of set, maybe 35# and was a total dog. I left it on the rack for a while just happy with my first bow. Then after a few more bows I realized even if it was my first, it wasnt any good as is. I cut 2-3" off each end and did my first sinew job on it. Two things happened: I started to learn sinewing and that junker bow turned into a full fledged hunting machine. It still shoots great today. Im not a "hang it on the rack and try again" kinda guy. Unless a bow is hopeless, which few are, I will try to make them useful.
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Hey PD, so sinewing a bow thats been overdrawn and taken set will make an ok bow a better bow by far? Cool >:D
I only been at this almost a year and I am beginning to realize how stupid I was on my first few bows, still stupid but just not as.
This bow is 52", light and pretty and doesn't bend in handle, so I should not have been drawing it to 40# @ 28" right?
How much of a pain would it be removing TB2 and silk without messing up the back too much?
I will get a few pics on here later today when I am not at work O:) ;).
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Set is kind of a funny thing to me. I know it's a bad thing technically, but I've got a sinew backed osage with a sort of molly design. It's about 52 inches ntn and has about 2" of set to it overall. It still shoots amazingly well though. I guess it just depends on the wood, type of bow, etc.
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I sinewed an osage bow that hinged about 10" from the tip. The sinew added quite a bit of poundage so I had to retiller. Today you would never know it had a problem. I think the set that takes place with the tension-strong woods is coming from the belly side. So if you sinew and retiller by scraping that bad belly wood off you are restoring it to good health.
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Ok, here are the pics of the ERC.
This was standng and mostly dead across the road from me. I've got another piece that is 58" and has some beutiful natural r/d and I am itchng to try it. Want to try makng arrows but I just seem to keep starting new bows instead; I think I have a problem. Is there a 12 step group for bowyers?
To sinew or not to sinew? ::)
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I want to see more! those are truly gorgeous!
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Thanks Ionic :D
Dazv and Weylin; I am a little worried this bow will blow on me and I was thinking I might sinew it and get some better perfomance from it while feeling like I can trust it more too. I'd hate to see it die :'(