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Offline PatM

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Re: Working on a static recurve
« Reply #60 on: February 09, 2014, 03:16:07 pm »
This style of bow definitely has the potential to humble you even after your basic skills are at a high level. Probably the reason so few make them a specialty.
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Working on a static recurve
« Reply #61 on: February 09, 2014, 03:20:42 pm »
I was reading along, waiting to get to the end of the thread so I could post how the bow looked kinda like two hockey sticks spliced together....now we just gotta say H and E before the double hockey sticks.

That was a kick in the guts, seeing that nasty splinter lift like that.  I was looking forward to the outcome.  Sorry, brother.
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Offline dwardo

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Re: Working on a static recurve
« Reply #62 on: February 09, 2014, 03:54:34 pm »
I know that feeling but for me its usually a crysal.
Commiserations.

Luckily you are a bowyer and used to failure so its easier to move on.  >:D
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Offline adb

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Re: Working on a static recurve
« Reply #63 on: February 09, 2014, 04:31:36 pm »
Sometimes in this game you get bucked off. Hard. You can either lay there and bleed, or cowboy-up and get back on.

I went back out in the shop today and started over. I got some more static tips cut out and sanded, and I have an ash and a white oak backing strip ready to go. I haven't decided which one I'm going to use, and I probably won't until the last moment. I don't have a lot of experience with WO, but I've never had a failure with ash. Guess we'll see.
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Offline IdahoMatt

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Re: Working on a static recurve
« Reply #64 on: February 09, 2014, 04:47:48 pm »
Looking forward to seeing this one.
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Offline ionicmuffin

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Re: Working on a static recurve
« Reply #65 on: February 09, 2014, 05:07:48 pm »
Was the hickory too dry or maybe it wasnt dense enough there? Not sure what happened but maybe there is a good reason why this happened.
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Offline PatM

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Re: Working on a static recurve
« Reply #66 on: February 09, 2014, 05:32:40 pm »
Post some pics as you go again. I'd like to see the potential backing strips
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Re: Working on a static recurve
« Reply #67 on: February 10, 2014, 09:27:24 am »
Know how ya feel....last year I had a sexy as hell tri lam that I was totally infatuated with let go on me on the last shoot in,n had almost a hundred arras thru it....normally that stuff doesn't bother me anymore....but when that one went I stood there in speechless shock,my grip turned too butter and the bow slipped out of my grip to the ground,and then my knees buckled n hit the ground with my head losing its support straight to hands over my face in the fetal position ....it sucked....at least yous went early on and not at the end of shoot in or just after lipstick was applied...those suck.

But its all part of the game we play as ya know......try again.
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Offline Blaflair2

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Re: Working on a static recurve
« Reply #68 on: February 10, 2014, 10:00:53 am »
I def wanna see the new one in the wings. It was looking sweet
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Offline adb

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Re: Working on a static recurve
« Reply #69 on: February 20, 2014, 11:48:35 am »
OK... round 2. I did another static glue up. Carbon copy of the one that broke, except I used white oak as the backing instead of hickory.  I made the new glue up a bit more refined. 1.25" wide across the fades, instead of 1.5" on the broken stave. The tips are also much slimmer. I can't imagine they'll be too weak.

New glue up on left, old on right...

First tiller session. From floor tiller to 3" low brace. Looking for 45#@26", so nothing earth shattering. Left limb looks pretty good, right limb is stiff, especially mid limb. Pulling 35# right now.

Comments welcome.
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Working on a static recurve
« Reply #70 on: February 20, 2014, 12:08:24 pm »
Very nice grain on those BOARDS. I see the same thing you do in the tiller.
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Offline adb

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Re: Working on a static recurve
« Reply #71 on: February 20, 2014, 12:16:05 pm »
Not bad for first look on the tiller. Fingers crossed on this one. I'm more nervous tillering this bow than any I've done for a LONG time.
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blackhawk

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Re: Working on a static recurve
« Reply #72 on: February 20, 2014, 12:17:36 pm »
I like the second installment better  8)
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Offline Blaflair2

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Re: Working on a static recurve
« Reply #73 on: February 20, 2014, 12:31:31 pm »
U can use white oak as backing? I have some 100 yr old barn beams, old growth. Like 25-30 rings an inch
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Working on a static recurve
« Reply #74 on: February 20, 2014, 12:38:53 pm »
Where you been Bruiser? White oak is a great backing.
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