Author Topic: A run of the mill board bow (Read 5429 times)

Dauntless · « **on:** May 27, 2009, 12:43:34 pm »

Well guess who is on a roll? I finished this one yesterday and took the pics this morning. It's another sugar maple board I chased a ring on. I would have made a bend in the handle bow but the lower limb had to be 2 rings higher...

The riser is fir, the tips are cedar I think. The bow is 65½" long, 64" ntn and 1¼" wide at the fades. The tips are 3/8" wide. Pulls 65# at 28" although when I finished chasing the growth rings I thought I only had enough wood for a 30 pounder.

It has taken exactly 1½" of just unbraced set for now but I haven't shot more than 100 arrows out of her yet.

The finish is Danish oil. It is a little darker than I wanted, especially on the fir riser. I'll go over with some steel wool this afternoon. (in the sun, with a beer

)

As usual I'm pretty insecure about the tiller. The unstrung and braced pics have the lower limb to the left.

knightd · « **Reply #1 on:** May 27, 2009, 12:49:10 pm »

Tiller looks good. I like the darker riser..

Josh · « **Reply #2 on:** May 27, 2009, 12:57:23 pm »

nice bow. The stain looks really good being darker like that.

Pappy · « **Reply #3 on:** May 27, 2009, 12:57:29 pm »

Looks good to me,I also like the darker color.Nice job.

Pappy

Pappy · « **Reply #4 on:** May 27, 2009, 12:58:24 pm »

By the way you look to young for a beer.

Pappy

Bear · « **Reply #5 on:** May 27, 2009, 01:30:47 pm »

I like it. Very nice. What is the string material?

Dauntless · « **Reply #6 on:** May 27, 2009, 01:42:16 pm »

Quote from: Pappy on May 27, 2009, 12:58:24 pm

By the way you look to young for a beer.
Pappy

I would be if I lived in the States.

The string is a worn out black B-50 tillering string.

first-timer · « **Reply #7 on:** May 27, 2009, 02:30:38 pm »

Haha, nice bow, and lucky you. States and Canada you got to be 18-20 to drink, depending on province/state

Of course, that doesn't stop most people from doing it anyways

The darker riser looks nice too.

Dauntless · « **Reply #8 on:** May 27, 2009, 02:52:38 pm »

I turn 21 in June anyway.

Well I shot the bow some more after lunch and heard a ripping sound at full draw...

The riser tried popping off on me on the thinner side (top limb). At the same time one of the overlays cracked from having the string too thick (timber hitch). I'll make an endless string or maybe a Flemish with two loops and prevent that from happening again. As for the handle, I'm going to have to do something I haven't done in years: Make a leather or string handle with an arrow rest. The few arrows I whipped were removing the finish.

I'm lucky the bow didn't just break there on the spot.

Josh · « **Reply #9 on:** May 27, 2009, 03:33:59 pm »

The riser popped off of the one I am working on too. It popped off during full draw but i think i fixed it. Good luck.

radius · « **Reply #10 on:** May 27, 2009, 04:04:07 pm »

i like the look of this bow...you say it steps down across the handle? that's cool...

maybe in part the trouble with the overlays is that cedar is a very weak wood, not quite up to the stress and pressure of being a string nock...

i'm surprised the handle tried giving way, because it looks like your tiller is good, and that the bend starts outside the danger zone...ah well...

radius

George Tsoukalas · « **Reply #11 on:** May 27, 2009, 06:17:29 pm »

Very nicely done! Jawge

OldBow · « **Reply #12 on:** May 28, 2009, 11:35:59 am »

Nice job! and bookmarked, too, for May Self BOM fun.

orcbow · « **Reply #13 on:** May 29, 2009, 08:42:20 am »

Good work brother!! Keep it up

Keenan · « **Reply #14 on:** May 29, 2009, 08:57:44 am »

Great looking bow. Yes you are on a roll and they just keep getting better and better, Congratulations

Primitive Archer