Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: uncleduck on July 05, 2013, 12:18:02 am
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Well a while back I was able to get a belly split off of a osage billet and was wondering what to do with it and a couple guys suggested splicing on some levers sooooooo here is my attempt. The osage had some prop twist and a dogleg that I decided just to leave and instead, line up the string by working with the angle of the splices. The osage has pretty much remained the same shape as it started. I wrapped the splices in rawhide from a dog chew then slapped on some paint to dress it up a bit.
54" ntn pulling 47#@26" zings an arrow pretty quick too.
(http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp9/dwilckens/IMG_20130704_211435_791_zps53ba2231.jpg) (http://s392.photobucket.com/user/dwilckens/media/IMG_20130704_211435_791_zps53ba2231.jpg.html)
(http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp9/dwilckens/IMG_20130704_211746_656_zpsd5683b95.jpg) (http://s392.photobucket.com/user/dwilckens/media/IMG_20130704_211746_656_zpsd5683b95.jpg.html)
(http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp9/dwilckens/IMG_20130704_211609_820_zps9b841ddc.jpg) (http://s392.photobucket.com/user/dwilckens/media/IMG_20130704_211609_820_zps9b841ddc.jpg.html)
(http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp9/dwilckens/IMG_20130704_211541_843_zps44bfabf6.jpg) (http://s392.photobucket.com/user/dwilckens/media/IMG_20130704_211541_843_zps44bfabf6.jpg.html)
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I love it. Nice work!
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That's slick looking! Acrylics for the paint job?
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Interesting,never would have thought to try that. :)
Pappy
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I like that a lot, great job.
Grady
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Very pretty and great curves. Nice work,.
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She turned out nice, Duck. I gotta short piece of osage I was thinking about trying some splices on, but wasn't sure how to conceal them. You definitely made the best outta that situation.
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I love this idea. I have a little 47" mulberry stave that I will be able to belly split and get two workable staves and was just considering short D bows but now I my try to splice some levers into one of them like this. What kind of splices did you use, V splices?
Grady
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that is very cool, how is the splice configured ? I'm interested in this in the future.
chuck
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That's a different but cool bow. Great use of scraps Duck.
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Thanks for the nice comments guys.
I used 2 part epoxy on a V splice about 1.5" long with the osage being the outside. This was my first time trying to splice anything so I was a little nervous about if it would hold or not. I had the joint wrapped with serving and soaked in super glue while I tillered it, then realized I could take quite a bit of bulk off of the joint so I peeled off the serving and rasped the mass down a bit. When all was said and done, I rewrapped the splices with rawhide glued on w tb3 (first time ever using rawhide also) but I left my string wrapped on the rawhide too long and left it a little bumpier than I would have liked. Luckily those dog chew rawhides are pretty thick so I was able to sand it down a bit once they dried. Acrylic paints right over the rawhide then sealed up everything with a spray coat of shellac.
I probably could have taken the levers down in size a bit but was unsure how much more I could get away with because they are ERC. At the size they are at now, they don't cause any handshock and the arrow speed seems pretty good so I am just going to leave as is.
I'll try to get a f/d pic today.
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Did you lace the rawhide or how did you deal with the seam? Also how wide are your bending limbs?
Grady
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Great Bow! Ed
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I just put some tb3 on one side of the rawhide and wrapped it around and overlapped it on itself about an inch, then wrapped it with some string I had laying around until the rawhide/glue was dry. The working limb width is about 1 5/8".
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Awesome, thanks. This is one of my all time favorite bows I have seen on this site. Well done, it is very much an inspiration.
Grady
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If that's scrap I'd love to see the good stuff.
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Amazing what you can get from a few small pieces of wood. looks grade A to me!