Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: bushboy on December 08, 2013, 12:35:31 am
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This is a little molly I made a couple of years ago,58"ttt,43@26,elm board,10oz,never finished it ,but goes to show elm is a great bow wood when heat treated!1/4" of visable set after introducing 1" of reflex
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Nice
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That is impressive.... Brian
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Sweet!!! Gotta love that elm. Nice work.
Tattoo Dave
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Nice bow, bushboy. I was very pleased with elm when I finally use some on a 60" static recurve. It was similar in size as an osage static I had built and shot just as well.
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Elm is another very elastic wood. Makes great bows. Might should be moved up to the list of 1st string bow woods.
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Depends on the Elm Steve
Nice bow. Glad to see someone else benefiting from the heat-treating process.
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Depends on the Elm Steve
Nice bow. Glad to see someone else benefiting from the heat-treating process.
Hi Marc
Do you mean the species of elm or the quality of the wood it's self???
Really nice little bow by the way!!!
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That's awesome! It' doesn't look like it bends in the handle at all. Is that correct?
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Mark, I heat treat just about everything. I did some experiments yesterday heat treating some purple heart arrow shafts and it really stiffened them up. Yew is the only thing I really don't heat treat, might be good for that to I am just a bit afraid of the yew getting brittle.
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Thx's all!,yeah it's a stiff handle,kinda pushing the limits!it was more of an experimental one,I keep it around for a light bow for guests to shoot.
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I love Elm and consider it superior to Osage for several reasons. What species of Elm is that? It really does depend on the species as to how good a bow em makes. Red elm doesnt do near as good as Wych Elm and American.
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White/american elm
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And that Sir, is why you have such a good bow from so little amount of wood. I have done no test to prove it, but I think American and Wych Elm can be lighter in mass per draw poundage of bow than Osage, or any other wood, and still hold together, due to its extreme interlocking grain.
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Looks great man. How wide did you make the limbs?
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1-5/8" for 2/3rds of the lenght
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I have cut a lot of Elm. Occasionally you can cut an Elm that heat-treating does very little to help it out, it's rare but I have cut some. Then there is the rare Elm that will chrysal if you even look sideways at it, there again rare but they are out there.