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Offline KenH

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All Wood Asian-style Composite
« on: May 24, 2010, 11:27:53 am »
An Asian style bow, made from six different woods: Maple backed Red Oak working limbs, Walnut & Ash laminated Siyahs; Red Elm Handle, and Birch dowel String Bridges. Draws 40-45# @ 28"

58" TtT along the back - 56" in a straight line
56" NtN along the back - 53" in a straight line
17.5" Working Limbs 1" wide
6" Handle
3/8" thick laminated Siyahs 3.25" along the limb, 4.5" from angle to tip

I started with a 48" long 1.5" wide 1/4" thick Red Oak plank from Lowe's. Backed it with 1/8" Maple, and added a handle slab just on the back side. Proportionally it just seemed too wide to my eye, so I narrowed it to 1" before adding the siyahs. Literally only 100 strokes with a palm sander and 50 grit was the only wood I removed to get to my target weight!  In retrospect I could have left it at say 1.25" wide and tillered by narrowing (parallel or tapered limbs) rather than thinning.



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Re: All Wood Asian-style Composite
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2010, 11:50:59 am »
Very nice looking bow,    :)
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Re: All Wood Asian-style Composite
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2010, 12:27:49 pm »
Very Nice Ken, That is a sexy lookin bow my friend, really like the use of the dowel pins.
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Re: All Wood Asian-style Composite
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2010, 12:31:47 pm »
That does look good! Any way you could post an unbraced profile picture? I would love to see how much that wood is working.
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Re: All Wood Asian-style Composite
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2010, 01:12:17 pm »
Quite the bow. Yes - do post more pictures of its details.
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Re: All Wood Asian-style Composite
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2010, 02:07:51 pm »
Nice, that does well to stay together without fancy materials (that's horn, sinew or F/glass)
Congrats.
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Re: All Wood Asian-style Composite
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2010, 02:45:01 pm »
Strung & Unstrung


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Re: All Wood Asian-style Composite
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2010, 02:46:00 pm »
Siyah Detail


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Re: All Wood Asian-style Composite
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2010, 02:46:46 pm »
Handle Detail...


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Re: All Wood Asian-style Composite
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2010, 03:44:22 pm »
That is a very nice bow!  It is cool how you used all wood in this design.   :)
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Re: All Wood Asian-style Composite
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2010, 06:27:27 pm »
Very nice bow, its good to see something original, looks like that must be a good combo. of woods, the red oak and maple. How does it shoot?

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Re: All Wood Asian-style Composite
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2010, 06:29:37 pm »
Shoots "with authority" as they say; even with the heavy arrows shown.  Smooth draw all the way from start to full draw.  No such thing as hand shock - of course it's only 40-45#...
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Re: All Wood Asian-style Composite
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2010, 06:31:58 pm »
I like everything about it, great job.
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Re: All Wood Asian-style Composite
« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2010, 07:03:30 pm »
That is superb!  What did you use to glue it, and did you sand off on the back, or belly, or both?  Pardon the questions, but I'd really like to try something like this!
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Re: All Wood Asian-style Composite
« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2010, 07:59:09 pm »
I used TBII to glue with - siyah laminations, handle, siyah to limb and string bridges. 

I only sanded the belly for tillering.  Lightly sanded everything, of course to make it pretty ::).  As I mentioned in my first post, I could have left the main limbs a full 1.5" wide and then taper-tillered from handle to tips; or gradually worked the parallel limbs narrower.  I think it would have been closer to 50# @ 27" or 28" if I'd done a sort of Holmegård taper - parallel for some distance from the handle, then tapering to the tips.

Next one I think will be 48" from tip-to-tip. 
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