Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Prarie Bowyer on March 24, 2013, 10:00:46 am
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I got sent a set of those Osage boards from 3Rivers. I've decided make a boo backed osage recurve as close to the ones Konrad Voegelle (google him for his site) makes. I just love those. I was getting ready to splice it and then got all tripped up on length decisions.
I'm going to heat bend the recurves.
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Those are some pretty bows. You didn't mention the draw length you were shooting for?
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28"
he had photos of people with his bows. And I want to say the recurves were migger than I would have thought.
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From the RECURVE chapter in TBBII...."Prehaps the best trade-off between speed and accuracy is a recurve of 60" to 64", measured before the tips are bent(this is for a 28" draw)".
There is a lot of good info in this chapter about recurves and the previous chapter on bending wood.
Also, check out Dean Torges video "Hunting The Bamboo Backed Bow".
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Thanks,
I was poking through pics of his stuff and found one that had the length 64" written on it.
Well he's the champ for a reason I guess.
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You do have to realize that a recurve adds a lot more stress to a bow so work carefully as you tiller and exercise the bow well with each wood removal.
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You do have to realize that a recurve adds a lot more stress to a bow so work carefully as you tiller and exercise the bow well with each wood removal.
Yep exactly it puts a lot more compression force on the wood so recurves are better for higher quality bow woods like Osage do he should be okay if he uses Osage