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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Aussie Yeoman on April 20, 2025, 11:43:10 pm

Title: has anyone set a deflex in the handle this way?
Post by: Aussie Yeoman on April 20, 2025, 11:43:10 pm: I'm thinking about different way to achieve deflex without steaming or splicing. Especially those ways that are easier to accomplish/lesss fiddly. Of course it's possible to just bend it over a form, but where the stave is too thick to bend around that much of a radius, perhaps there are other ways.

This idea came to me late at night. Has anyone tried it? If so, how'd it work out?

Any other clever ways people have used?
Title: Re: has anyone set a deflex in the handle this way?
Post by: Selfbowman on April 20, 2025, 11:52:33 pm: Did this with dry heat.
Title: Re: has anyone set a deflex in the handle this way?
Post by: Selfbowman on April 20, 2025, 11:54:44 pm: Pic
Title: Re: has anyone set a deflex in the handle this way?
Post by: Aussie Yeoman on April 20, 2025, 11:57:02 pm: Noice. Did you put pin through it or was the glue enough?

I've done something pretty much exactly the same with a project that's still on the 'to finish' shelf.
Title: Re: has anyone set a deflex in the handle this way?
Post by: Selfbowman on April 21, 2025, 12:01:54 am: Smooth on epoxy. I used the nose on my sander to even it out. Takes some time to get the glue joints tight.
Title: Re: has anyone set a deflex in the handle this way?
Post by: Pappy on April 21, 2025, 09:23:20 am: Cool Arvin, never thought about doing it that way, by the way your work bench looks about like mine. :)
Pappy
Title: Re: has anyone set a deflex in the handle this way?
Post by: Selfbowman on April 21, 2025, 07:14:59 pm: You mean crap everywhere.🤠🤠🤠I actually cleaned mine a couple days ago. Spring cleaning I guess.🤠
Title: Re: has anyone set a deflex in the handle this way?
Post by: Selfbowman on April 21, 2025, 07:18:02 pm: Pic
Title: Re: has anyone set a deflex in the handle this way?
Post by: Mad Max on April 21, 2025, 07:55:18 pm: Years ago at MoJam we dry heat bent a handle 1-1/2" thick for a R/D bow, slowly ;)
Takes a while to get it hot all the way threw.
Title: Re: has anyone set a deflex in the handle this way?
Post by: Selfbowman on April 22, 2025, 01:51:07 pm: I e done it that way but i scorched it . Still structurally strong just ugly.
Title: Re: has anyone set a deflex in the handle this way?
Post by: Mad Max on April 22, 2025, 08:21:57 pm: Quote from: Selfbowman on April 22, 2025, 01:51:07 pm
I e done it that way but i scorched it . Still structurally strong just ugly.

:OK
Title: Re: has anyone set a deflex in the handle this way?
Post by: Badger on April 22, 2025, 10:07:13 pm: Aussie, I did something very similar to yours a couple of times but my cuts were straight and I had to fit them with a tapered insert. If I ever do it again I will do it your way so inserts are not needed.
Title: Re: has anyone set a deflex in the handle this way?
Post by: Aussie Yeoman on April 25, 2025, 01:46:25 am: Quote from: Badger on April 22, 2025, 10:07:13 pm
Aussie, I did something very similar to yours a couple of times but my cuts were straight and I had to fit them with a tapered insert. If I ever do it again I will do it your way so inserts are not needed.

Aside from the fiddlyness of cutting the inserts, how'd that bow turn out?

I did a mockup with some offcuts and glued it with TB3. Way too runny, though it kept its shape extremely well. I think if I tried this mockup again I would mix some epoxy with dust from the bandsaw to pour into the gaps.