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Offline medicinewheel

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three sisters
« on: February 03, 2007, 05:58:28 pm »
hi all!  -  this is one of the two projects i started this last week: three black walnut boardbows with hickory backings and various fancy-coloured risers. they all three aim for 30#@26". i make these for three ladies (not sisters) who all URGENTLY need bows.

the bows are at three different states right now: one's technically finished, one is floor-tillered, one still needs a backing.
i used the japanese method of rope and wedges for gluing: it's so simple and effective (and i can fit 4 bows in the hotbox for gluing up at once)
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Re: three sisters
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2007, 07:33:01 pm »
Looks good, just be careful with your tillering as black walnut tends to fret pretty easy. ;D
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Offline medicinewheel

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Re: three sisters
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2007, 02:56:49 am »

here are two pictures of the blanks glued up and reflexed with rope and wedges


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Offline bowmo

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Re: three sisters
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2007, 10:38:53 am »
They look really nice. I really like the color combo's in the most finished ones handle. At lower wieghts and draw length, I would think these bows should make it. I made a bamboo backed black walnut bow a long time ago, it was too wide and thin, 45# at 27", not that well tillered, and it held up fine... I have a Z splice set up on a set of black walnut boards and have beening meaning to try it again.

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Offline mamba

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Re: three sisters
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2007, 12:44:33 pm »
MW do the wedges pull the bow into relex,or do they only hold the  lambs together for a tight glue joint.Thanks for the pics,been thinking of trying that method.
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Offline medicinewheel

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Re: three sisters
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2007, 01:17:36 pm »
Quote from: mamba on February 04, 2007, 12:44:33 pm
MW do the wedges pull the bow into relex,or do they only hold the  lambs together for a tight glue joint.Thanks for the pics,been thinking of trying that method.

you put in the wedges and while  hammering them in you carfully bend reflex in against your knee.  the wedges hold the bend.
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Offline medicinewheel

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Re: three sisters
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2007, 08:59:58 pm »
Quote from: Ryano on February 03, 2007, 07:33:01 pm
Looks good, just be careful with your tillering as black walnut tends to fret pretty easy. ;D


hi ryan!  -  i do not know this term 'to fret easy' and nothing in the dictionary makes sence. sounds sort of important, though. please explain!
thanx, frank
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Re: three sisters
« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2007, 03:55:41 pm »
correct me if i'm wrong but frets are compression caused cracks in the belly, right? so, in german that would be "stauchrisse"
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Offline medicinewheel

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Re: three sisters
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2007, 08:05:04 am »
found some time to continue work on the 'older sister'; tiller is done pretty much with 32#@26" (aimed for 30#). will do some fine tillering when the other two are tillered, too.
well: comments on the tiller are very wellcome!!
frank

ps: no compression cracks at all so far.
pps: upper limb is on the right

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Offline AndrewS

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Re: three sisters
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2007, 08:20:39 am »
Tiller looks good!

And the tips are pretty nice, too!
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Offline medicinewheel

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Re: three sisters
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2007, 10:23:35 am »

thanks andrew!  -  here is the unbraced and braced profile and the shaped out handle section

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Re: three sisters
« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2007, 10:28:31 am »
very nice tiller frank.  especially, once you see all three pictures (unstrung, braced and full-draw).
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Offline medicinewheel

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Re: three sisters
« Reply #12 on: February 12, 2007, 10:56:38 am »

thanks dusty!

wanted to add that there is no glueline visible all the way from nock to nock!
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Offline Marc St Louis

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Re: three sisters
« Reply #13 on: February 12, 2007, 11:05:47 am »
Looking good. Are you gonna call them Corn, Bean and Squash? :)
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Re: three sisters
« Reply #14 on: February 12, 2007, 05:27:44 pm »
Excellent tiller.  Way to represent.

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