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Offline DuBois

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HHB (short) longbow. Whatcha think?
« on: March 04, 2013, 07:43:35 pm »
Did this summer 2012. Sure I coulda done it better if I had been posting in progress. I will try to do that more from now on! :o
Bow #5 for me and my only attempt a a longbow design although I realize now 63" is not "long".
I was probably not paying enough attention to the design section in TBB :o
It is HHB backed with 2 layers silk.
63" and draws 50# at 28".
Took about 1.5" set.
Shoots nice as far as I know, but I am no expert.

Looks like a couple of frets starting and I think I see now that the limbs are a little thick past the crysal areas, both are upper limb.
The bigger one about 14" from handle and the smaller 8" from tip.
Sorry no full draw pic (hard to get help from wife ya know).
I'm thinkin I will remove a little past the frets and try to blend it in better.

What you guys think?
Are my posts getting annoying? Are the pics viewable ok? wonder sometimes  :-\
Anyway, thanks for your time and experience.
Marco DuBois

Offline PaleoNinja

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Re: HHB (short) longbow. Whatcha think?
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2013, 07:49:18 pm »
No one will ever be annoyed by you posting pictures of Primitive Bows on this website.

That Said, I'd walk away with what you learned and start a new one.  Not bad for a fifth bow, it looks nice.

Offline Zion

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Re: HHB (short) longbow. Whatcha think?
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2013, 07:56:49 pm »
It is relatively common to get frets by little knots like that. That's an awesome bow tho, tiller looks nice!
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Offline lostarrow

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Re: HHB (short) longbow. Whatcha think?
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2013, 11:38:21 pm »
HHB is pretty tough stuff ,but you may have pushed it a little on this one. How wide? ...........................shoot it till it dies .Have fun!

Offline DuBois

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Re: HHB (short) longbow. Whatcha think?
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2013, 03:58:59 am »
Thanks folks.
HHB is pretty tough stuff ,but you may have pushed it a little on this one. How wide? ...........................shoot it till it dies .Have fun!
Yeah I probably did push it on this. It is 1 1/8" wide at handle.

Offline The Gopher

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Re: HHB (short) longbow. Whatcha think?
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2013, 02:30:30 pm »
I made an ELB with HHB once at about 1" wide and it took a ton of set, lesson learned.

white wood = wide wood
45# at 27"

Offline Bryce

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Re: HHB (short) longbow. Whatcha think?
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2013, 04:00:02 pm »
looks good man!
i say shoot it till it breaks
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Offline Dvshunter

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Re: HHB (short) longbow. Whatcha think?
« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2013, 05:51:26 pm »
I'm with Bryce.   8) looks nice.
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Re: HHB (short) longbow. Whatcha think?
« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2013, 09:50:47 am »
Hey, thanks everybody for the replies.
I'll keep at it ;)

Offline simson

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Re: HHB (short) longbow. Whatcha think?
« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2013, 11:50:47 am »
I'm with Bryce.   8) looks nice.

+1
Good luck for the next one!
Simon
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