Primitive Archer
Welcome,
Guest
. Please
login
or
register
.
1 Hour
1 Day
1 Week
1 Month
Forever
Login with username, password and session length
Home
Help
Search
Calendar
Login
Register
Primitive Archer
»
Main Discussion Area
»
Bow of the Month Contest
»
Marc St. Louis Wins Laminate Bow of the Month
« previous
next »
Print
Pages: [
1
]
2
Author
Topic: Marc St. Louis Wins Laminate Bow of the Month (Read 21286 times)
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
OldBow
Member
Posts: 2,216
I'm just an old retired biology teacher.
Marc St. Louis Wins Laminate Bow of the Month
«
on:
January 05, 2009, 01:27:31 pm »
Congratulations to Marc St. Louis of Mattawa, Ontario (Canada)
His Excellent Ash-Backed Yew is December Laminate Bow of the Month
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,10040.0.html
Marc is a familiar winner for Bow of the Month. Let's read how he made this bow:
I figured I would try the lower density and more elastic wood Yew for the second try. Now I know that White Ash makes an excellent backing for Yew but I was a bit worried about using a quarter sawn backing after the first failure. So I chased a good ring on a White Ash stave and ripped a flat sawn backing strip, a bit of a pain but worthwhile. I steamed the recurves in a pair of Yew billets then glued them together in deflex. Then I used dry heat to reflex the limbs and glued more reflex in with the Ash. In all it started with about 5" of reflex and after tillering the bow out to 31" it kept almost 3" of that. I have drawn the bow out to full draw many times and it has settled to about 2" of reflex now. I also shot it a couple times using a 550 grain arrow and a 28" draw. It is fast, in fact probably as fast as any bow I have ever made. The bow turned out at 60" long with 1 1/2" wide limbs and it pulls 63# @ 28", I can't pull it back any further with the hand held scale I have. That should project out to about 70# @ 31".
We get a lot of inspiration from Marc's bows:
-"Mark, I love how that bow is bending most of the work is right in the sweet spot! Steve
" -Badger
-"very nice bow as usual Marc, should be a real killing machine... "
-Hawk
-"Amazing.... "
- jackcrafty
-"Reflex deflex bows have never been my cup of tea, but this one makes my head turn. I especially like the braced and full draw pictures."
-a finnish native
[attachment deleted by admin]
Logged
When you're retired, every day is Saturday
Dustybaer
Guest
Re: Marc St. Louis Wins Laminate Bow of the Month
«
Reply #1 on:
January 05, 2009, 01:57:59 pm »
yep, that was my vote too. congratulations marc. i just love the lines of that FD picture.
Logged
Pat B
Administrator
Member
Posts: 37,637
Re: Marc St. Louis Wins Laminate Bow of the Month
«
Reply #2 on:
January 05, 2009, 02:39:09 pm »
Congrats Marc. Beautiful bow! Pat
Logged
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes! Pat Brennan Brevard, NC
Gordon
Member
Posts: 3,299
Re: Marc St. Louis Wins Laminate Bow of the Month
«
Reply #3 on:
January 05, 2009, 02:56:38 pm »
Congratulations Marc, that really is a terrific bow.
Logged
Gordon
Hillbilly
Member
Posts: 8,248
I like tater tots.
Re: Marc St. Louis Wins Laminate Bow of the Month
«
Reply #4 on:
January 05, 2009, 03:46:29 pm »
Congratulations, Marc-couldn't get much better than that one.
Logged
Smoky Mountains, NC
NeolithicHillbilly@gmail.com
Progress might have been all right once but it's gone on for far too long.
koan
Member
Posts: 2,393
Brian D. Mo.
Re: Marc St. Louis Wins Laminate Bow of the Month
«
Reply #5 on:
January 05, 2009, 06:54:32 pm »
Congrats Marc, Sweet bow!...Brian
Logged
When you complement a lady on her dress.....make sure she is the one wearing it.....
Jesse
Member
Posts: 2,129
Re: Marc St. Louis Wins Laminate Bow of the Month
«
Reply #6 on:
January 05, 2009, 08:36:18 pm »
congratulations Marc. great bow
Logged
"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."
--Frank A. Clark
Marc St Louis
Administrator
Member
Posts: 7,877
Keep it flexible
Re: Marc St. Louis Wins Laminate Bow of the Month
«
Reply #7 on:
January 05, 2009, 08:38:03 pm »
Thanks guys. I liked that bow so much I'm gonna make one for myself now
Logged
Home of heat-treating, Corbeil, On. Canada
Marc@Ironwoodbowyer.com
ber643
Member
Posts: 530
Re: Marc St. Louis Wins Laminate Bow of the Month
«
Reply #8 on:
January 05, 2009, 09:58:36 pm »
Got the pic on the TBD pages already this time, Marc. Congrats.
http://residents.bowhunting.net/bsdunn/tbd19.htm
Logged
"Hunters Are People Too" (My website Premise)
Bernie Dunn
Coastal NC
hawkbow
Member
Posts: 2,051
Re: Marc St. Louis Wins Laminate Bow of the Month
«
Reply #9 on:
January 05, 2009, 11:30:17 pm »
GREAT JOB as usual Marc... your bows have some good medicine brother.... keep em coming.. HAWK a/ho
Logged
IT IS BETTER TO LOSE WITH HONOR. THAN TO WIN THROUGH DECEPTION...
Mike "Hawk" Huston
GregB
Member
Posts: 4,079
Greg Bagwell
Re: Marc St. Louis Wins Laminate Bow of the Month
«
Reply #10 on:
January 06, 2009, 08:08:42 am »
Congratulations on a well deserved win!
Logged
Greg
A rich person can be poor monetarily, the best things in life are free...
Pappy
Global Moderator
Member
Posts: 32,206
if you have to ask you wouldn't understand ,Tenn.
Re: Marc St. Louis Wins Laminate Bow of the Month
«
Reply #11 on:
January 06, 2009, 09:02:23 am »
Congrats Marc,very well done as usually.
Pappy
Logged
Clarksville,Tennessee
TwinOaks Bowhunters
Life is Good
Bowbound
Guest
Re: Marc St. Louis Wins Laminate Bow of the Month
«
Reply #12 on:
January 06, 2009, 12:23:14 pm »
Yet another great bow from you marc. Very impressed
Logged
Marc St Louis
Administrator
Member
Posts: 7,877
Keep it flexible
Re: Marc St. Louis Wins Laminate Bow of the Month
«
Reply #13 on:
January 06, 2009, 05:11:24 pm »
Thanks again guys
Logged
Home of heat-treating, Corbeil, On. Canada
Marc@Ironwoodbowyer.com
robbsbass
Member
Posts: 260
Re: Marc St. Louis Wins Laminate Bow of the Month
«
Reply #14 on:
January 06, 2009, 08:31:56 pm »
Beautiful bow Mark, well deserved win. you should be proud of this one.
Robb
Logged
live each day the best you can
Print
Pages: [
1
]
2
« previous
next »
Primitive Archer
»
Main Discussion Area
»
Bow of the Month Contest
»
Marc St. Louis Wins Laminate Bow of the Month