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Offline n2everythg

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Re: The 1 hour Bow!
« Reply #15 on: January 05, 2010, 09:27:08 pm »
Very cool I like it. Gonna have to give it a try now.
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Offline Little John

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Re: The 1 hour Bow!
« Reply #16 on: January 06, 2010, 10:28:37 am »
Looks like fun just doing something different. I guess now you could try for an one hour stone tool bow.   Kenneth
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Offline ricktrojanowski

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Re: The 1 hour Bow!
« Reply #17 on: January 06, 2010, 10:21:05 pm »
Very nice,  The tiller looks Real Good for  a 1 hour hatchet bow.  Fine work.
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Re: The 1 hour Bow!
« Reply #18 on: February 15, 2010, 05:26:41 pm »
yeah, good for an hour...beats spending days working on one just to have it snap in half
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: The 1 hour Bow!
« Reply #19 on: February 15, 2010, 06:42:42 pm »
Quote from: radius on February 15, 2010, 05:26:41 pm
yeah, good for an hour...beats spending days working on one just to have it snap in half
It's now rawhide covered, it shoots pretty fast (152 fps) but has a load of crysals up the belly. I'm using it as my regular bow at the minute as I've got a nasty bit of tennis elbow in my right arm and the 75# longbow is a bit tough on it in this cold weather. (Or would that be Archer's elbow ??? )
I may make a 'good' version of it sometime, a bit wider and longer with more RD set into it....that's when I've completed the ten thousand other projects.
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Offline dismount

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Re: The 1 hour Bow!
« Reply #20 on: February 15, 2010, 07:19:42 pm »
Del, incredible work. I'm green with envy( i think Freud calls it Hazel envy) And you did it so Fast!!! Faster than a jackrabbit on a date. Dismount
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Offline aero86

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Re: The 1 hour Bow!
« Reply #21 on: February 15, 2010, 07:43:00 pm »
what is patience?
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Offline michbowguy

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Re: The 1 hour Bow!
« Reply #22 on: February 15, 2010, 09:33:11 pm »
great job my man! 8)
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Re: The 1 hour Bow!
« Reply #23 on: February 17, 2010, 04:13:23 pm »
How much weight did it gain with the drying and rawhide?? 
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: The 1 hour Bow!
« Reply #24 on: February 17, 2010, 04:21:49 pm »
Quote from: AKmud on February 17, 2010, 04:13:23 pm
How much weight did it gain with the drying and rawhide?? 
Hard to say really, as I tidied it up a bit with a rasp & file to even the tiller, and I'm also drawing 28" now so it's not a fair comparison.
I think it's about 45pounds now.
I don't think it gained much weight, but it gained cast...that might sound daft, but it felt faster and less rubbery, but not really heavier.
I s'pose I could pop out into the garage and weigh it...
Hang on, I'll go do it...Yeah, it's about 42, it's braced rather high and taken a good bit of set, plenty of crysals on the belly, I'm treating it mean and shooting it a fair bit.
I like the way it shoots, I was field shooting last weekend and handed it to one of the guys to try out, gave him one of my arrows ...thwhack...inner kill at about 25yards. ;D
Sometime I'll make one like it but with some built in safety margin, tad wider, whisker longer smoother tiller.
Del
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