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Offline Lehtis

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Bamboo Backed ELB Stylish Longbows
« on: November 02, 2018, 09:19:13 am »
Dark evenings here in Finland meaning time for bow making. Five ELB stylish longbows in plans. All bamboo backed, three with osage belly and two with lemonwood. One osage bellied will have hickory core, the others cumaru, all 5 mm thick. Should make two ca. 50 lbs and one over 60 lbs for my friends. Two have not yet got dedicated owners; one perhaps for myself but that should be ca. 80 lbs.

The three osage bellied have been bandsawn and sanded to shape and are ready for rasping and tillering. The two lemonwood bellied are just glued with Unibond 800. Bamboo backs, lemonwood bellies and core slices are full length. Osage bellies have made from billets with V-joint and epoxy at handle area.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Bamboo Backed ELB Stylish Longbows
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2018, 09:34:11 am »
Looking pretty good so far. If you'd like I'll move this to BOWS or you can keep it here in How To..
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Re: Bamboo Backed ELB Stylish Longbows
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2018, 10:27:02 am »
OK to move to BOWS... Actually, I was originally planning to start this there.
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Offline youngbowyer33

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« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2018, 05:29:22 pm »
I like it. Hope to see progress pics!
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Re: Bamboo Backed ELB Stylish Longbows
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2018, 10:49:03 pm »
Some progress: All staves sawn and sanded to shape. Backs are ca. 12 mm wide at limb tips and at center + 1 foot the width is 30 mm. After these picks the bamboo back corners have been rounded and they are ready for tillering process. Unfortunately some autumn flu slows me down a bit and I´m not going to breathe dust just now.

#1 & #3 from top are Bamboo-Cumaru-Osage, #2 Bamboo-Hickory-Osage and #4 & #5 Bamboo-Cumaru-Lemonwood
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Offline Eric Krewson

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Re: Bamboo Backed ELB Stylish Longbows
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2018, 06:29:15 am »
Your bamboo appears to be very thick.
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Offline Lehtis

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Re: Bamboo Backed ELB Stylish Longbows
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2018, 09:43:39 am »
4-5 mm thick... perhaps for some too thick but similar bows have been working fine so far for me... :-)
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Offline Lehtis

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Re: Bamboo Backed ELB Stylish Longbows
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2018, 07:59:29 am »
Osage bellied now pre-tillered close to ordered strength and they´ve got some horn on limb tips. Lemonwood bellied will wait a bit until I decide how strong they will be... or, in worst case, they may be replacement bows for the previous ones in case some of them will explode.
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Offline ohma2

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Re: Bamboo Backed ELB Stylish Longbows
« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2018, 08:18:23 am »
What is the redish colored tip?bet that will look sharp when finished.
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Offline Sidewinder

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Re: Bamboo Backed ELB Stylish Longbows
« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2018, 06:11:18 pm »
Man, that first one is bending really, really good. I'm impressed. I'm sure the rest of them are going to be excellent.
 Do you know my buddy Kristoff? He is a bow maker from Finland. Haven't spoken with him for several years. Danny
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Offline Lehtis

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Re: Bamboo Backed ELB Stylish Longbows
« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2018, 10:59:42 am »
ohma2; That´s only paint on horn. Looks like the buffalo breeders paint the horns of their buffalos. I´ve got red, blue and once green horns on addition to non-painted ones.
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Offline Lehtis

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« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2018, 11:02:08 am »
Sidwinder; I have not heard about Kristoff (or similar) named guys here, sorry. Anyway, the traditional bowyers group is not too big here, so perhaps some day...
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Offline Lehtis

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Re: Bamboo Backed ELB Stylish Longbows
« Reply #12 on: November 17, 2018, 02:27:15 am »
Nocks raw shaped and bows tillered close to wanted strength. Also some test arrows shot and the bows are now ready for arrow strike plates and surface smoothing and TruOiling.

Top: Bamboo-Cumaru-Osage, ca. 52lbs@26,5"
Middle: Bamboo-Cumaru-Osage, ca. 52lbs@28"
Bottom: Bamboo-Hickory-Osage, ca. 62lbs@28"
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Offline Lehtis

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Re: Bamboo Backed ELB Stylish Longbows
« Reply #13 on: November 17, 2018, 02:28:33 am »
The nocks...
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Offline sieddy

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Re: Bamboo Backed ELB Stylish Longbows
« Reply #14 on: November 17, 2018, 05:02:51 am »
They're looking great buddy!  8)
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