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Offline Marc St Louis

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Maple backed HHB Deflex Recurve
« on: March 13, 2014, 07:58:16 pm »
Here is a bow I am just finishing up for someone.  It's a deflex static recurve of HHB backed with Maple.  The bow is 64" long with shallow D section limbs just over 1 3/8" wide tapering the 3/8" nocks.  Because this bow is for someone I didn't do a great deal of performance optimization but I am sure it is quite fast none the less.  I glued in about 4" of reflex and it retained 1" in the end.  It pulls 55# @ 28", I have pulled it to 29" to justify its existence  :).  I still have a bit of finish work to do to it before I can test it.



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Re: Maple backed HHB Deflex Recurve
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2014, 08:03:50 pm »
as always, sweet, bub
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Re: Maple backed HHB Deflex Recurve
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2014, 08:10:14 pm »
So cool, I'm Speechless
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Re: Maple backed HHB Deflex Recurve
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2014, 08:26:32 pm »
You outdid yourself on that one, Marc. Sweet bend.
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Re: Maple backed HHB Deflex Recurve
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2014, 08:39:01 pm »
Can't argue with that one, very nice.  Hopefully some day I'll get there.
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Re: Maple backed HHB Deflex Recurve
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2014, 09:31:53 pm »
    sweet profile, very cool

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Re: Maple backed HHB Deflex Recurve
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2014, 09:32:30 pm »
Thank you guys

The bow is very smooth to draw and there's a bit of let off at about 24" of draw.  In reality this bow could easily be made 4" shorter for a 28" draw as it's hardly stressed as is
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Re: Maple backed HHB Deflex Recurve
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2014, 09:34:58 pm »
That's amazing. If ever I had a favorite tiller, this bow has it.
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Re: Maple backed HHB Deflex Recurve
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2014, 09:57:44 pm »
   Good broadhead bow Mark.
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Re: Maple backed HHB Deflex Recurve
« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2014, 10:10:17 pm »
AWESOME! That pretty much sums it up!
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Re: Maple backed HHB Deflex Recurve
« Reply #10 on: March 13, 2014, 11:34:19 pm »
Great looking bow Marc....as usual. Are the recurves doing a whole lot on that design? Hard for me to tell but it appears to be just barely lifting off at full draw.
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Re: Maple backed HHB Deflex Recurve
« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2014, 11:35:06 pm »
This bow seems to have the reflex concentrated further in on the limbs than some of your other D/R bows.  Does that have to do with the overall length of the bow being longer, or perhaps because it has statics?  Especially after reading through the reflex thread a few weeks ago I'm curious what your design consideration was for this one.  Maybe I'm just imagining things, but it can't hurt to ask.

I love how the full draw limbs look like they're hardly bending, even for so much reflex.  It's impressive how much that sharp deflex brings them around.
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Re: Maple backed HHB Deflex Recurve
« Reply #12 on: March 13, 2014, 11:36:13 pm »
Nice bow and design Marc, your tillers always look just like they should.
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Offline IdahoMatt

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Re: Maple backed HHB Deflex Recurve
« Reply #13 on: March 13, 2014, 11:49:42 pm »
Man that's a cool looking design.  Looks smooth and fast.  It almost looks like a modern Egyptian style angular bow.  I dig it a lot.
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Re: Maple backed HHB Deflex Recurve
« Reply #14 on: March 13, 2014, 11:55:05 pm »
Nice bend!!!
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