Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: make-n-break on November 23, 2016, 07:56:07 pm
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Finishing this one up. I went to the woodworking specialty store for some new tools and found a true hickory 1"x6" by 6' board that yielded two beautiful rift sawn staves. This is the first of the two twin sisters that will come from it. I love a good character stave, but I've still got a soft spot for a perfectly uniform pyramid.
Hickory Pyramid
74# at 28"
67ttt
65ntn
1.75" at the fades tapered to 3/8" tips
5" handle that works ever so slightly at full draw
Poly finish
Wrapped artificial sinew knocks
12 strand B55 string (will need to upgrade to FF soon cuz it's stretching pretty bad)
It was a fun and fast build. Probably 10-12 hours from start to finish. Sending thanks to the guys who corrected my early and ill judged design choice and tillering.
This is one of my best shooters to date. It has a flat, powerful cast. It took 1-3/8" string follow immediately after 200 arrows and rests at between 1" and 1-1/4" permanent set.
The bottom limb developed some pretty heavy prop twist while tillering and since these photos were taken I have given it a mild golden-brown heat treatment to try to correct it some. If anything major changes after it rehydrates I'll post an update, but I can't imagine much happening other than a few scrapes to touch it up and a few more pounds of draw weight.
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More. The arrows pictured are a mix of split lumber poplar and natural basswood shoots with 5" turkey feather fletching.
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Nice bow ;) I love a quick and clean pyramid bow as well.
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Nice bow & nice find on the premo board !
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Very nice looking bow
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Really nice looking bow. I'd say you put some life back into that board. Nice job
Bjrogg
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A simple bow beautifully executed. Really like the nocks.
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That right there is what a hickory bow should look like. Well done! 8)
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Nice job on that piece of hickory
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That's a nice looking bow!
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i would sooooo disappoint that bow with my inability to shoot as well as it looks...
niceeeeee...
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Nice looking stick! Or should I say board? Haha great job! Cheers- Brendan
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Great tiller :)
Got to buy those straight hickory boards!
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looking mighty fine. I just love those pyramid bows.
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Great looking bow MNB
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I bet it does whip an arrow at that draw weight, plenty of pounds!
I agree, you should either beef up to 16 strands of B-Stretchy, or switch to a dyneema. At your draw weight your leaning hard on 12 strands of B50.
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Great looking bow period mnb.12 strands of fast flight plus for string would work on your bow great too.Another 10 to 12 days and you've have another bow too yet....lol.
I was wondering about those basswood arrow shafts.Spine/thickness/length etc.If you kept track of it.I've never used basswood before for shafts but do have a few basswood tree limbs here I could split.I like that natural turkey fletching too.
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Thanks for the compliments gents! It's always great to hear words of praise from all the bowlers I admire!
Beadman - I posted a "help identify" post about a year ago and the group though it was basswood. So did my ole man and he's real good with plant IDs. It was winter and harder to ID. They grow in clusters, real straight and tall, along rivers and swampy ditches. There can be hundreds of clusters in one spot. Give me a couple days and I'll head down to a patch close to the house and get you a proper write up on the process, along with arrow specs.
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Good looking lines and tiller.
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Nice Make and unlikely to Break, tiller looks excellent. Very clean work and cool nocks too.
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mnb....Then they are shoot shafts it sounds like.Hmmm.Don't know if that's basswod then.I'm always in the mix for different good types of arrow shaft wood.
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I'm usually not a fan of board bows, but you pulled this one off very nicely.
Great tiller, cheers
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Top arm is to much stiiff,all preasure in draw go to weaker down arm
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Kamil - it's the prop twist on the lower limb playing tricks on the camera. It's actually the stiffer limb. I've since heat treated the bottom limb to stiffen it up even more and take out some of the prop twist. The tiller looks much better to the camera now but I don't want to keep the thread alive too long by posting more pics.
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nice bow congrats,, I like your wrap on nocks,, :)
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Very nice job, beautiful bow. :)
Pappy
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Lovely! 8) -OneBow
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Sweet bow. I love the design and those specs!
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Thanks for the compliments gentlemen!