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

[GregB]

Cool thread Mannie...I really enjoyed it!

I was wondering if you burnish the backs of your bows?

[Pat B]

This is a very cool and informative thread Manny. Makes me feel better about my snaky guava stave.
   Pat

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

Thanks Greg,...no I don't burnish the back, but I've being thinking about it, and I might start to.

Yeah Pat, I knew it was a tough to brake, but now I feel even better about the durability, and as a hunter to me it's real important, I know my bows gave me most of the time pass thru on pigs, so even if not the fastest, there's plenty there,...now I know that in normal conditions there's no way they break, what more can you ask ??



This experiment validates what I've being sayng for years, ...I don't really know much about bowmaking, but I've just got lucky to find a wood that let me get away with murder

[Mickey]

LOL Manny that was something else to see. That's some tough stuff for sure. I'm suprised though that the BG outlasted the selfbow. I would have expected the bamboo to splinter way before a good self back.

[Robinwho]

Remember me also north shore I want to buy a stave, I have two guava bows now ,but I need one with less LBS, Getting old you know, Built my first guava bow in 1962.
Need a stave about 68" for a #50 Bow.

Let me know how much you need. shipping to Fla 33172.
Thanks

[Ghost Dog]

My hero!!! That was one crazy set of pictures. You sure convinced me, my friend. Now I am going to go shoot the living daylights out of the bow you made me. 

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

  ;DBob, if the tiller don't change your bow should outlast me and you

Robonwho, I added you to the list, I'm going harvesting most likely Friday

Mickey, after I heard that tick as I was bracing the BBG, I didn't even expected it to get to 28"...what a surprise, ...but most of all the fact that the boo even if it was so thick that in some places was about the same size of the belly, never overpowered The Guava, this gives me a total new outlook on the compression capability of this wood

[Mickey]

the first BBO I made was like that..I .called it an OBB....osage bellied bamboo bow LOL .It's 10 years old and still shooting BTW although it doesn't get shot much.

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

OBB

[jpitts]

WOW....Manny...best thread I've read/ seen  yet.....that Guava is tough stuff. Count me in on a stave, if you have enough.

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

Does anybody wanna ad pictures of similar experiments, either with sound bows or defected ??

jpitts, I'll try cut one for you too

[Rich Saffold]

So Manny is it going to be guaboo? or Boogua for bamboo/guava?

Rich-booniper=bamboo backed juniper, or bbj

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

How about "BOAVA" ?

[jpitts]

Thanks Manny,
Just let me know what I owe ya 

[aandu]

I am novice at building bows. Last week me & my friend while discussing the various woods that were
available to us for making bows; I rejected gauva (on the basis that it has lots of splits while drying....)
as a useful bow wood... I could'nt have been off the mark!

Thanks for an great post!