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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: Bamboo yellow heart ipe trilam ELB, 67# @ 28", 85# @ 32"...
« Reply #15 on: July 11, 2013, 10:34:46 am »
Very nice job,85lbs,man that is a beast. :)
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Haha, I'm sure I only got it to like 29" in the fulldraw pic, my arrows are only 30",  :).
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 the upper part is pressed down,
 the lower part is raised up,
 the part that has too much is reduced,
 the part that has too little is increased."

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Re: Bamboo yellow heart ipe trilam ELB, 67# @ 28", 85# @ 32"...
« Reply #16 on: July 11, 2013, 10:36:24 am »
Very nice bow hairless wonder! I must have missed it while I was on vaca and away from PC's.

 ;D Thank ya pearl drums!
"The way of heaven is like the bending of a bow-
 the upper part is pressed down,
 the lower part is raised up,
 the part that has too much is reduced,
 the part that has too little is increased."

- Tao Te Ching, 77, A new translation by Victor H. Mair

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Re: Bamboo yellow heart ipe trilam ELB, 67# @ 28", 85# @ 32"...
« Reply #17 on: July 11, 2013, 10:46:22 am »
Very nice tri-lam ELB... my favourite type of bow. Excellent tiller. When making tri-lams, I usually try and keep the backing lam and the core lam the same thickness (about 1/4") to give me more belly wood to work with, especially at the tips.

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Re: Bamboo yellow heart ipe trilam ELB, 67# @ 28", 85# @ 32"...
« Reply #18 on: July 11, 2013, 10:52:09 am »
Sweet TMK.  You been crankin' 'em out lately.  All nice.
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Re: Bamboo yellow heart ipe trilam ELB, 67# @ 28", 85# @ 32"...
« Reply #19 on: July 11, 2013, 02:09:50 pm »
Very nice tri-lam ELB... my favourite type of bow. Excellent tiller. When making tri-lams, I usually try and keep the backing lam and the core lam the same thickness (about 1/4") to give me more belly wood to work with, especially at the tips.

Thank you! :). Believe it or not, I just measured and the yellow heart core on this one, and it is only 3/16", might be 7/32" in some places. I think I might of just removed alot off the tips. It seems the more I reflex the stave, the thinner the tips will be in the end, plus it's ipe. I know it seems the ipe is really thin at the tips. Maybe I should consider tapering my cores? Although part of me doesn't have a problem with minimal ipe at the tips, it does make better sense to have equal parts consistently.

Sweet TMK.  You been crankin' 'em out lately.  All nice.

Thank ya!
"The way of heaven is like the bending of a bow-
 the upper part is pressed down,
 the lower part is raised up,
 the part that has too much is reduced,
 the part that has too little is increased."

- Tao Te Ching, 77, A new translation by Victor H. Mair

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Re: Bamboo yellow heart ipe trilam ELB, 67# @ 28", 85# @ 32"...
« Reply #20 on: July 11, 2013, 09:28:03 pm »
shoulda never looked..got me 2 trees down an ain't never gonna look like that........ you do awesome work..well done!
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Re: Bamboo yellow heart ipe trilam ELB, 67# @ 28", 85# @ 32"...
« Reply #21 on: July 12, 2013, 03:39:11 am »
Nice bow dude.
If you want to avoid those bits where you sand throught the edge of the nock use a smaller drill bit for drillinjg the horn. For ipe and other dense woods I start off with a 12mm flat wood bit then grind the edges off to give the triangle. Your edges are disappearing because the wood bit you use is a little too big. I use 1/2 inch ones when using less dense wood.