Short lived experiment lol "success"

[skyarrow]

Well since it is raining outside i decided to make my three year old a pvc bow to play with hehe it turned out great till i turned my back for a second and my 5 year old grabbed it and overdrew it SNAP. Nothing can explain  the feeling i felt when i saw Bayleigh's eyes start to well up she didnt even get to shoot it yet. I guess Starleigh learned a lesson on drawing other peoples bows real fast haha i didnt have to say anything to her she felt so bad for doing it. Good thing it was just a PVC bow and not a wooden one. After the eyes dried up i explained to Starleigh about treating others stuff and told Bayleigh il make her another so tomorrow il make her another and Starleigh a larger one. Anywho here are the pics of the bow before it broke



It turned out a little asymmetrical and it broke on the weaker side  to i know what happond i just over heated the spot where it broke hopefully the next one will be better i used a heat gun on this one which was slow and i couldn't heat large areas just small one it would cool  to fast tomarrow im going to use a small propane single burner stove it should make a larger heating area



I think it wasnt to bad of a bow first first time making a PVC  recurve i will say it totally different then a wood bow lol well tomarrow il post pics of the others 

[soy]

That is the coolest full draw shot I've ever seen the smiling face says it all... that's a bummer it got broke but I can't wait to see the next 1

[Pat B]

Zina, Warrior Godess! 

[osage outlaw]

Sterling your little girl has better shooting form than I do    Good job on getting them shooting.

[bubby]

Sterling, when i make those i just use the kitchen stove, then i dont have to setup a bunch of stuff, Bub

[soy]

I have seen somewhere How to make 1 of those If someone could point me to build a long I would much appreciate it

[skyarrow]

I wish i could bub but my stove is a ceramic flat top no fire or coils

[ErictheViking]

Soy, just search on you-tube a guy on there gives complete build-a-longs on a whole bunch of styles.

[skyarrow]

Yep i think his tag is backyard archer or something similer

[Ifrit617]

Yep i think his tag is backyard archer or something similer

Search the backyardboywer on youtube. His PVC bows are masterful. I think he was getting 175 fps out of one of them. He just posted a really sweet horse bow with laminated in wood siyahs.

He's even made snaky PVC bows.

Jon

[skyarrow]

Here they are i made them both bows which was the plan but i waited till both were finished before i gave it to them
Bayleighs is a R/D and starleighs is a molly  i will say the R/D is faster lol

[bowtarist]

  Like em, and way to save the day too.

One of my Buddies kids is supposed to come over and do some archery stuff for the day and I was wanting to try to make a pvc bow w/ him.  I was going to try the long bow style with two peices of pvc, one inserted into the other for a thicker wall diameter.  Long bow style.

Cool Man, dpg

[skyarrow]

I used 3/4 for the molly and cpvc 1/2 for the R/D

[soy]

Cool beans man!