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Offline Gordon

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Re: Hawthorn sapling bow
« Reply #15 on: February 26, 2010, 11:28:08 am »
Really nice bow. I'm surprised how even the tiller looks given the natual deflex in one of the limbs and the reflex in the other. Did you heat those out?
Gordon

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Re: Hawthorn sapling bow
« Reply #16 on: February 26, 2010, 01:37:04 pm »
Gordon, I don't follow. By deflex limb, do you mean the straight limb that points down a bit? I used steam to reduce the reflex in the snaky limb (left in the pictures) because otherwise I figured the string would be too close to the grip when braced. Somehow it hasn't occured to me to add reflexed to the other instead when I did that.
The (almost) full draw pictures shows that the tip of the reflex limb doesn't move to the same level of the straight limb's tip. I measured how far each tip moves in the tiller picture. The tip of the reflexed limb moves by 130 pixels from unbraced to drawn, the other tips moves by 114 pixels. So the reflexed one is a bit weaker which is why I picked it as upper limb. I did that on purpose because I don't like my bows too asymmetric.

The first picture of the rough stave shows a view of the back of the bow. I think this picture may be a little confusing because I didn't indicate where I placed the bow. There is a big cut off branch right of the number 2. This spot is on the lower limb just below the grip.

I'll attach the pictures in a smaller size, I hope this works for everyone!

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Re: Hawthorn sapling bow
« Reply #17 on: February 26, 2010, 01:38:28 pm »
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« Reply #18 on: February 26, 2010, 01:39:13 pm »
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Offline Gordon

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Re: Hawthorn sapling bow
« Reply #19 on: February 26, 2010, 01:50:18 pm »
Oh, never mind, that's the front view I'm looking at. The tiller looks perfect then. Well done!
Gordon

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Re: Hawthorn sapling bow
« Reply #20 on: February 26, 2010, 03:38:42 pm »
That is the coolest sapling bow I have seen in awhile man!  Great job!   :)
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Re: Hawthorn sapling bow
« Reply #21 on: February 26, 2010, 10:44:41 pm »
Yes very well done that bow :)
The handle wrap looks pretty cool, did you forget to post that foto in our local forum at least I didn't recognised it there.
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Offline Timo

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Re: Hawthorn sapling bow
« Reply #22 on: February 26, 2010, 11:56:43 pm »
yes very nice bow! I too liked that handle wrap, and was trying to do something like that on my last bow, but gave up. any chance we could get you to do a how to on it?

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« Reply #23 on: February 27, 2010, 04:58:56 am »
Thank you guys!

@acker: I am sure I did!

There is a good video on how to do this wrapping on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSYPALS433M
I did it with shoe laces because I did it at short notice. It worked, but it takes some care because the laces become substantially thinner when stretch, so they must be stretched the same all the time. I added the occasional drop of super glue here and there to keep the whole thing from unraveling because a bow is much more cumbersome to handle than the grip shown in the video.

Daniel

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Re: Hawthorn sapling bow
« Reply #24 on: February 27, 2010, 10:36:45 am »
Skerm, nice bow!  I love the grip too, as I'll be doing something similar with my bow but with leather tsuka-ito (Japanese sword hilt wrap) that Fred Lohman does ( google is your friend ;))

I've got a nice piece of samé (rayskin) to lie underneath it too.

Do you wear a glove when you shoot that bow?  How does your hand feel after shooting it a few hundred times?

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Re: Hawthorn sapling bow
« Reply #25 on: February 27, 2010, 02:44:44 pm »
Thanks! Today was a warm, sunny day (about time!) and I shot this bow about 100 times without a glove. I didn't notice anything unusual or uncomfortable with the wrapping, it felt fine.

Daniel

Offline Aries

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Re: Hawthorn sapling bow
« Reply #26 on: February 27, 2010, 04:19:35 pm »
Thank you!  :)

Awesome bow but pictures are so small!! i need to find my magnifying glass lol

You have to click on them, then you will get a larger picture!

Daniel
oops lol i see now ;D
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Re: Hawthorn sapling bow
« Reply #27 on: March 03, 2010, 10:59:57 pm »
Great job on a very challenging piece of wood. God Bless
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Offline faltenhemd

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Re: Hawthorn sapling bow
« Reply #28 on: March 04, 2010, 03:25:52 am »
nice work, skerm!
tiller looks great
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Re: Hawthorn sapling bow
« Reply #29 on: March 04, 2010, 06:23:36 am »
Very nice,looks great. :)
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