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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: DC on May 08, 2018, 11:58:07 am

Title: A pile of shavings
Post by: DC on May 08, 2018, 11:58:07 am
The difference between 40#@24" and 40#@ 26.5"  98 grains or 1/4 oz.
Title: Re: A pile of shavings
Post by: High-Desert on May 08, 2018, 02:39:30 pm
This is actually very interesting to see. Not a while lot of diffenece is there.
Title: Re: A pile of shavings
Post by: BowEd on May 08, 2018, 06:46:57 pm
Now take that poundage down from the sides on the next bow and see how much wood will lay there.
Title: Re: A pile of shavings
Post by: upstatenybowyer on May 08, 2018, 06:55:00 pm
Now take that poundage down from the sides on the next bow and see how much wood will lay there.

Good point Ed, good point.  :)
Title: Re: A pile of shavings
Post by: Hawkdancer on May 08, 2018, 11:38:04 pm
Therein lies the dilemma - to thin or to narrow?! :BB. And when and how much!
Hawkdancer
Title: Re: A pile of shavings
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on May 09, 2018, 06:07:44 am
To me, that is the hardest skill to learn. How much wood makes this much weight fall off? Or, how much wood makes this much limb bend?
Title: Re: A pile of shavings
Post by: RatherBinTheWoods on May 09, 2018, 08:36:02 am
Great illustration when you isolate it like this
Title: Re: A pile of shavings
Post by: bradsmith2010 on May 09, 2018, 04:39:32 pm
nice thanks for taking the time to post,, I love stuff like that,,
I used the weigh the wood that came off when I thinned the tips,, so I could see if there was a cast difference,,
now I just spit ball,, (SH)
Title: Re: A pile of shavings
Post by: Badger on May 09, 2018, 04:48:32 pm
  i used to weigh my scrapes, 1# mass weight to 1,000 scrapes ( roughly)
Title: Re: A pile of shavings
Post by: DC on May 09, 2018, 05:01:18 pm
nice thanks for taking the time to post,, I love stuff like that,,
I used the weigh the wood that came off when I thinned the tips,, so I could see if there was a cast difference,,
now I just spit ball,, (SH)
I still do that. This last one I took 8 grams off the tips. I figure I used it all up when I served the center of the string. :)
Title: Re: A pile of shavings
Post by: Hawkdancer on May 09, 2018, 11:04:13 pm
Oops!  I used about 400 scrapes or so of hickory to start the smoker >:D -C-! 
Hawkdancer