"first being what sort of linen did you use"
Linen fabric from Jo Anns Fabrics.
"Second question, can we see some pictures"
My sd card on my camera is fried,
sorry, I would love to if it wasn't.
"You have made several unfounded, untested claims that if gone unanswered pose the chance of becoming the False dogma that was being discussed."
Specify.
"You keep bringing up the combed linen ARE YOU USING COMBED LINEN?"
No, I'm pretty sure on the paleoplanet post I made clear it was linen fabric. This is around the tenth time you didn't read what I wrote. I am sure you are only looking for something to prove some point you don't even have.
"False dogma, TooMany! You have made several unfounded, untested claims that if gone unanswered pose the chance of becoming the False dogma that was being discussed."
Thats insane logic. How can a publically open debatable subject be dogma? I explained how backing a bow with a nonworking non stretching material could raise weight. If I made any claim you sure did not challenge it? All you did was call it dogma and tell me to shut up and be quiet, that in no way challenges anything I said. It just starts crap like this. Ironically I was challenging an idea that is very widely held to be true in the online community. I believe that is the definition of dogma. It doesn't matter anymore anyway as I deleted that thread before I got banned from paleoplanet for defending myself from nothing but a "UNFOUNDED CLAIM" about myself.
"Alot of variables and it's easier to show than explain."
True. I agree I would need to cancel out alot of those to be able to make a convincing argument either way. Which has not been done yet. So right now we will have to be satisfied with what we currently know, which is alot... Since saying anything that is not widely accept seems to stir up more than I want to stir up sometimes, I'm gonna stick with the basics:
1) Lets see what is widely accepted about all wood bows and how they work. A typical all wood bow's stress is divided between the back and the belly. The back is under tension and the belly under compression stress. The back stretches and the belly compresses. The most stressed points are the top most part of the back, which is under the most tension, and the top most part of the belly is compressed is under the most compression stress. I mean "top" as the most outside part, stress gradually decreasing until the middle point between the back and the belly is reached.
2) Now lets think about what is widely accepted about backed bows and how they work. It is said that some backings are strong, and some weak. Some backings it is said you cannot use on a compression weak wood, like sinew. As the backing could overpower the belly, hense chrysals. Now why would you get chrysals? If you bent the bow normally without the sinew, it would not of got chyrysals? But because you put the sinew on, it got chyrsals. Now how does that work?
I think from a backing not allowing a bows back to stretch, that all the work in then forced to be done in the form of compression. A bows back does stretch when drawn. If it can't stretch, then that is just the more the belly has crush to bend. Your basically crushing the entire bow. This is why, as tim baker mentioned in preformance and design, flax due to it's resistence to stretching can very easily overpower a bow. Because that is what your doing. Your crushing the entire bow. This makes alot of sense if you think about it. It just appears logical to me that this would raise the weight of a bow, thought I lack the ability to explain why forcing a bow to work only in compression raises the weight. But it does. Although it is slightly crazy NTD that you yell at me about how I need to go read the bowyers bible, and somehow ignore where
tim baker in the end of design and preformance revisited volime four, where he talks about backings states exactly what I am saying,...
"Combed Linen will allow the cliched impossible: putting wood back on after too much has been removed. A 30lb bow can become a 60 pounder. Not much thickness is needed either. About 1/16" of combed flax on a typical limb will do."
...Although thats crazy, it is even more crazy that you would up and not even read or try to understand anything in my post and yet still continue with
your feeble claims, such as calling my post dogma. Please show me an unfounded claim in my point. Please show me dogma that I posted above me. Show me the dogma above. Show me how some unquestionable, religiously held belief (this is the definition of dogma if you didn't know that) can be drawn forth from an opinion? That logic would be insane.
