Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Maxwelliuston on March 01, 2023, 07:20:48 pm
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I had this piece of osage that split a little funny and forced my hand into doing a kind of molle type thing - which I've always been keen to try anyways. The limb that ended up being the bottom had a grain wiggle that split abruptly and narrowly about halfway down the limb. If you can make out in the photos - basically the limb beyond that grain wiggle was largely untouched by me in terms of width. I did my best to mirror the width profile on the upper limb and ended up with probably not the best ratio of bending:non bending limb for this design but it shoots an arrow hard enough.
That wiggly feature on the bottom limb also had a bit of a kink in the deflex direction which only played more tricks on my eye when tillering - that and the fact it was my first try at tillering a molle shape probably resulted in a tiller that could use a little more work but as always I called it when I thought it felt balanced and stable. I didn't have specific goals in terms of weight as this was an experimental piece in a lot of ways. Its the last of my wood from the super fine ringed, dense as a rock WNY osage I cut last year. The 4 resulting sister bows have all been vastly different projects and its bittersweet to reach the end of that particular haul.
68" ntn
40# @28"
1 3/4" at fades, 1"ish stiff levers and just under 3/8 at tips
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Nicely done. I love molle style bows. Little tricky to do but sure have a sweet profile.
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Nice experiment. Much better than giving up on it.
I’m sure you learned a lot from it. Sounds like it’s time to find some more Osage.
Thanks for sharing
Bjrogg
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Very nice and a very good bow which typifies the idea that the stave may dictate design. Jawge
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Really pretty bow! You did a great job on this!
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Nice job, beautiful bow. :)
Pappy
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Very nice looking piece of wood ;-)
I just fineshed a Møllegabes style hazel bow, which was shorter than yours, but it was very fast 30#/28" and made 160f/s
Cause I realy haven't expected it to work out fine, I decided to go a step further and heat tread a bow the first time….
Now it's charcoal…
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Looks good . Enjoy the bow .
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Good pics of the bow. Always good to see thought out presentation of these tools we make.
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8) :BB :OK