I'm bending 2 Guava bows untill they break !!! ( pics)

[Coo-wah-chobee]

                               Yeow!!!!! ..........bob

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just pulled it to 38" :obut it won't break

here's the sequence

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[Robinwho]

It is very hard to break Guava, thinner branches of the guava were used by caribbean indiand to make loops and used as basket supports , so it can be bend 360 degrees.

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It surely makes me feel good about my bow wood

[Coo-wah-chobee]

                             Iam exhausted! Need a drink! Guava's great wood aint it? Have done same as u but NOT ta 38". Get a catchers face mask and breastplate ! .....bob

[tom sawyer]

You're string angle is past 90 degrees now, so you're pulling the limbs back/down without the tips moving together much.  In other words, you did about all you can do to break that bow.  I was sort of cheering for a break, just for the excitement.  Cool test, thanks for sharing.

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40" 

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42"



..well I'll let this stay,..for now moving on to the selfbow

[tom sawyer]

Did the chrysal change any?  Develop any new ones?  had you fixed the rpoblem with tiller that caused the chrysal to begin with?  Yikes that is drawn a long way.

[Gordon]

I'm surprised the string is staying on the bow. Wow, that guava wood is some tough stuff!

[Gordon]

You sure you still want to trade guava for that crappy vine maple stuff that I use 

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selfbow

57# @ 28

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65# @ 30