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Bows / Re: Anyone know about box wood?
« Last post by sleek on October 17, 2025, 08:27:19 pm »
Hey, I have no clue about it at all, but if it has good tension properties, theres no reason it cant make a good bow. I built a bow design program that relies on the woods specific gravity to design the bow around. If you can do a test to give me the S.G. of the wood, or tell me what you think it is based on online research, I can design a bow for you.
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Bows / Re: 64 inch 29 lb. hickory bow
« Last post by bassman211 on October 17, 2025, 08:10:43 pm »
Badger... the bow is made from hickory first thing. Secondly it has no reflex left ,but has no set either. It is well tillered, and has a deep cut out shelf to get my arrow to tune properly. I wouldn't considerate it well built by your standards, or Mark, Arvin, or Sleek, or Dave. I would love to see you guys build a 25 to 30 lb. bow of your design choice for target shooting at 10gpp, and come up with your arrow velocities. Then I would know what to shoot for to enter the world of elite bow building. I am pretty sure Sleek will take the challenge. Can't wait to see what you come up with for any of you are willing to try. Thanks much guys.
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Bows / Re: Welcome to the first annual PA giveaway!
« Last post by sleek on October 17, 2025, 08:01:31 pm »
I am not sure why that account isn't working probably due to verifications needed. I created a new one that I will update the original post. Thank you for letting me know the issue.l, and I appreciate your help!




 PayPal is being a pain in the butt at the moment, ill repost that link when its fixed
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Bows / Re: Welcome to the first annual PA giveaway!
« Last post by Aaron1726 on October 17, 2025, 07:30:05 pm »
Hey, I tried to contribute via PayPal, but looks like neither the link or the qr code are working.  It says something went wrong with the vendor...
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Bows / Anyone know about box wood?
« Last post by stuckinthemud on October 17, 2025, 07:00:22 pm »
Ok, so, 4 years ago I buried a couple of 60" long staves of buxus sempervirens in the bottom of my stash to seasonThey're not perfect, in fact they are a bit knotty in places but careful planning will get around most of the problems if I were to use them as bow staves. Equally, I could cut them up and make three piece or five piece bows to take advantage of the clean bits.  I am a bit conflicted.  On the one hand, box is supposed to be a great bow wood, but I've never seen or heard of a bow being made from it.  I have no idea what the best design would be for the type of timber.  Anyone know of any bow made from box wood anywhere?
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Bows / Re: Morakniv draw knife
« Last post by gifford on October 17, 2025, 02:17:47 pm »
I got mine at a garage sale, in a box of tools, just like my old 4in1 Keen Kutter rasp, many years ago. I kept them both and handed back the box of other tools so they could resell them.  At that time I didn't know that it was a drawknife, I used it as my scraper. It did a fantastic job as a scraper. Both tools are still in my go-to box.
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Bows / Re: 64 inch 29 lb. hickory bow
« Last post by Badger on October 17, 2025, 02:12:25 pm »
    At your draw length a well built D/r bow should give you about 150 fps using 350 grain arrows. Thats not bad for target shooting. I don't think I would want to go too far below the 350 grains.
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Bows / Re: 64 inch 29 lb. hickory bow
« Last post by sleek on October 17, 2025, 01:33:41 pm »
Quote from: bassman211 on October 17, 2025, 01:05:45 pm
Sleek... yes I would be interested in a better designed bow for more speed even at 25lb of draw. Badger... my draw length is 25 inches at 29 lbs. I use a mark on the arrow ,and a weight scale to check, and repeat, and check ,and repeat. Sleek....with your design, and you building the bow what would you expect in arrow speed with the information above? curious.

I might have some bows i could modify to those stats and find out actually.  Ill have to check. With a properly weighted arrow, I see no reason why 170 fps cant be reached. The arrows would start to resemble flight arrows at that light draw though just due to the need for light spine and light weight to meet even a 10 grains per pound.
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Bows / Re: Attracting new members to PA
« Last post by sleek on October 17, 2025, 01:25:06 pm »
The lack of updates to this site over the years has lead to the issues we have. The updates are doable but significant in size and quantity, aka... price. Thats what the give away is for, as a fund raiser. Im hoping we will roll into the new year with a correctly operating site and none of those popups.
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Bows / Re: Attracting new members to PA
« Last post by Aaron1726 on October 17, 2025, 01:19:41 pm »
I use my phone, its an android, and i get some pop-ups, but also just tons of random ads top and bottom and inbetween posts.  And recently random click here links that pop up all over.  I'm not much for Facebook or other social media platforms, but there's certainly something to be said for ease of use and how it affects user engagement.
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