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Offline Joec123able

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Re: First self bow (BL stave from Wizardgoat)
« Reply #15 on: February 09, 2015, 03:07:54 am »
Looks awesome!! Id like to see it unstrung!
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: First self bow (BL stave from Wizardgoat)
« Reply #16 on: February 09, 2015, 03:12:59 am »
great work
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Offline Hrothgar

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Re: First self bow (BL stave from Wizardgoat)
« Reply #17 on: February 09, 2015, 07:34:48 am »
Nice tiller, looks quite powerful.
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Re: First self bow (BL stave from Wizardgoat)
« Reply #18 on: February 09, 2015, 07:56:56 am »
Welcome to PA! Thats a sweet first bow!
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Offline Aaron H

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Re: First self bow (BL stave from Wizardgoat)
« Reply #19 on: February 09, 2015, 08:06:37 am »
Beautiful looking bow, that full draw looks sweet!
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Offline GlisGlis

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Re: First self bow (BL stave from Wizardgoat)
« Reply #20 on: February 09, 2015, 10:52:21 am »
Beautiful bow
I'd like to see unstrung and frontal pict !
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Offline TimBo

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Re: First self bow (BL stave from Wizardgoat)
« Reply #21 on: February 09, 2015, 10:57:37 am »
Sweet!  Looks like you are getting a great bend out of it.  Nice work.  (I also can't wait to see more pics!)
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Offline rps3

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Re: First self bow (BL stave from Wizardgoat)
« Reply #22 on: February 09, 2015, 11:09:16 am »
Looking good, I too would like to see unbraced picture. I have always heat treated my bows at floor tiller before being pulled quite that far though.
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Offline Treebeard

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Re: First self bow (BL stave from Wizardgoat)
« Reply #23 on: February 09, 2015, 11:26:08 am »
Here's an unbraced picture. I'm going to come clean and admit this pic was taken after I reclamped it to my form and heat treated it. It had taken about an inch and a half of set during tillering, so I heated it into the profile you see here. I'm going to let it rest until the weekend before I brace it again. In the mean time, I'm going to sand and start finishing, apply tip overlays and cut and form the leather grip.
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Offline wizardgoat

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Re: First self bow (BL stave from Wizardgoat)
« Reply #24 on: February 09, 2015, 01:53:39 pm »
Nice work Nathan. Will be interesting to see if any of that reflex stays.  Even if you lose some I doubt it'll go back to where it was prior to heat treating
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Offline Treebeard

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Re: First self bow (BL stave from Wizardgoat)
« Reply #25 on: February 09, 2015, 04:10:59 pm »
Fingers crossed! Thanks again for all the help.
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Offline soy

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Re: First self bow (BL stave from Wizardgoat)
« Reply #26 on: February 09, 2015, 05:32:03 pm »
Looking good ;)
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Offline VicNova

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Re: First self bow (BL stave from Wizardgoat)
« Reply #27 on: February 11, 2015, 08:39:45 pm »
Oooh!! I love the curves on that bow man!! 
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Offline Badly Bent

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Re: First self bow (BL stave from Wizardgoat)
« Reply #28 on: February 11, 2015, 08:59:28 pm »
Real nice work on that shorty, that full draw looks good. One suggestion if its Ok, you may want to wait on the finishing until you string it and check the tiller again. Sometimes the heat treating changes things a bit and you may want to do a little scraping again on the belly to either adjust the draw weight back down or fine tune any tiller changes the heating may have caused.
Looks smooth and fast though and I'm impressed with the amount of bend you got out of a 50"'er. :)
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Offline huisme

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Re: First self bow (BL stave from Wizardgoat)
« Reply #29 on: February 12, 2015, 03:33:48 pm »
+1 Mr. Bent.

Even with a bit of string follow that thing is a beauty, great use of a short piece of locust. No chrysalis, I'm assuming? The bend looks clean enough to deter frets, which would keep the locust as snappy as possible-- combined with well-narrowed tips I'd expect this thing to spit arrows like a champ ;)
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