Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Onebowonder on February 01, 2017, 02:43:09 pm
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Hey guys, My brother and I are building a bow for one of his patients that is an avid young archer. Her name is Emily.
She wanted it to be recurved, which while I've done is not exactly my specialty. It's going to have to be fairly light weight for her to be able to use it. Oh, ...and she shoots left handed.
Here are some pics of our start. I decided on using a piece of quartersawn elm I had milled a few years back and then back it with a slat of bamboo. I'll probably put a thin-ish power lam / handle made of an Osage scrap I had on hand.
OneBow
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looks like a fine bow in the making :)
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Good on both you and your brother, Eric. Very nice gesture.
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The world needs more guys like you and your brother. That's really great. Can't wait to see how it goes.
I'd love to do that for some of my patients.
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Great reason to make a bow Eric. Make sure you get pictures of you all together and the young lady with the full draw. Are you gonna make it to Marshall? My wife would love to have you and your wife's company as neighbors.
Bjrogg
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Looks like it's coming along nice
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Very good project guys. Keep us updated on the progress.
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Cool! Keep us posted!
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Looking forward to seeing the end result and a smiling face :)
Del
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That's an awesome thing you 2 are doing! I know people post finished kids/low weight bows, so it will be sweet to watch one being made (especially a recurve!).
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Awesome, cant wait to see the happy archer with her new bow
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Thanx for the feedback and encouragement guys. I'll be sure to post some kind of an update whenever we get back to working on this again.
OneBow
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That is a very nice thing to do for a young lady Eric. Good for you both
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Sorry for the extended delay on this project. We had really intended to finish this up long ago, but we let ourselves get distracted. (Mostly with FUN stuff, but a few that were nothing like fun at all!) We finally got together yesterday and got the Bamboo glued on the back. I had made an Osage power lam for this bow, but we didn't use it. The bow is WAY WAY too strong already without the power lam! I'll save the Osage for another bow later. I'm not sure if the green of this bamboo will fade eventually, but so far this has not. It was cut years ago and still holds it's color despite a way too long soaking in a tube full of water! We'll see what happens...
OneBow
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Nice gesture for sure.Looks like everything's under control.You've got plenty of wood to work with to tiller it down.
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Looks like a nice shooter in the making for sure. (SH) And by the way, that's a sweet looking vice! I gotta get me one of those.
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Looks pretty good guys. :OK
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good for you! It looks like you are doing your usual fine job. Thanks for sharing.
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Looks great onebow.
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Thanx guys. I am going to trim off the excess bamboo this evening and go back to floor tillering. She gained a buh-gillion tons of new draw weight after I glued up the Boo backing. The elm belly was floor tillered to where I could just get it flexing a couple inches before the Boo was glued on. Now, I have a crow bar that bends more easily than this bow!!!
I have a couple questions about the Boo we used for backing.
1] There are a few lines that look like they could be really fine linear cracks in the backing. I mean really small almost no-see-ehm class lines. I've always just filled these with small super thin CA and have never had a problem. ...but since this is going to be shot by a child most of the time, I'm inclined to be extra careful. What is your experience with these super fine lines in Bamboo? Do I need to wrap these with silk thread and epoxy? None of them run off the edge of the bow and they are strictly linear. I'll try to get and post some close-up pix later tonight.
2] How do you treat the nodes as far as smoothing them out? I have always just sanded them lightly smooth with very fine grit paper and then sealed them with CA glue. My brother had a catastrophic failure with one that broke at the nodal ridge that he had only just barely nicked when he was working on the bow. Again, I've seen both type of boo backed bows - where the nodes were left way proud, even to the point of being left completely untouched, and I've seen where they were radically sanded off smooth with the rest of the backing. Both seemed to work well enough. What are your experiences?
OneBow