I'm bending 2 Guava bows untill they break !!! ( pics)

[Easternarcher]

YEAH BABY! That's the best chuckl;e I've had this weekend! Funny how such a thing could be so entertaining...Take video next text and post on YouTube....how about that MAnny....

[duffontap]

Manny, did you ever unstring the bow and check for set as you were progressing to longer draws?  It would be interesting to know what kind of set it was taking at 40+". 

          J. D.

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

D tiller, never tryed a warbow, but my best results are with narrow deep desings, Got a heavy ELB in the works

Simon, this is straberry Guava, make a berry like red fruit

[D. Tiller]

How much for a stave Manny? I LIKE IT!!! If you can supply in bulk I am part of the archery troop for the Camlann medieval villlage in Carnation. Dave Tinsley and I are building bows there and we will probably be buying in the boat load if you can supply them....errr maybe not that much but in quantity! 

David T

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

the break isn't to bad, only superficial

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

set not to bad either, considering the punishment taken



I'm going back and see if she can take going to 45"

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

J.D., your answer just above

D. tiller, I'd love to , but I can hardly keep up with the few requests I get

[D. Tiller]

Can ya send us a stave to try? If ya can supply us we may be able to create a new carrier for ya!  How fast does it grow? If its grows fast enough maybe you can plant it like a crop and grow some premo straight staves for longbows! Save you from having to go trampsing through the jungle tangle over there.

Yew is getting harder and harder to get ahold of. Seems like they treated it like a weed for so many years in the longing industry and so much is protected that the price of a stave or finding one is tough.

David T

[PepeLep]

You're lucky you didn't put an eye out!
 

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

well I couldn't get it to 45", hit a wall at 43, plus the string just about came of


I unwrapped the limb to show the original compression fracture,...no other frets developed in the course of the experiment

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

D tiller it grows like a weed, DLNR has being trying to contain it but no luck.

It wants to grow like a bush, that's why I have to go in deep, narrow dark valleys to harvest.

I know I promised seed in the past , I'll get you some


curing time is over a year for this wood

[D. Tiller]

How about a stave instead? I think the stuff wont grow up hear in WA. Just too cold in the winter. Think about a troop of medieval archers all armed with Mannie's guava warbows!!! 

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

I can look for a stave for you,.......but remember that strait Guava is an utopia , how long ya need it to be ??

[D. Tiller]

Mannie, I nead to draw 30" to 31" draw at arround 80-120# maybe 74 - 77" long?  Maybe a bit longer but if the bend is as good as whats shown then arround 74" would be fine.

Thanks Mannie! Let me know how much I owe ya.

David T