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Quote from: bubby on August 03, 2015, 12:12:53 pmHow wide did you make the ro sleek, in my experience with it i would have gone close to two wide at the fade most boo is 1-1/2" wide giving an easy trap and toast a little reflex into the red oak not much an inch or so then glue it up with a little perry reflex and it should have come out flat at the worst, nice looking bowsOr just use osage the next time and get waaaay better results,and a narrower "sleeker" bow But those will work n do well for a couple of kids that wont care about the stuff us bowyers worry about Well now that's a given ain't it 😏
How wide did you make the ro sleek, in my experience with it i would have gone close to two wide at the fade most boo is 1-1/2" wide giving an easy trap and toast a little reflex into the red oak not much an inch or so then glue it up with a little perry reflex and it should have come out flat at the worst, nice looking bows
I think he might have beat the problem of some of the set issue at the same width he has if we had taken time to toast the Red Oak belly on each bow real well, ...but there was a birthday deadline, and there really wasn't all that much set. If the set issue gets any worse, that might still be a reasonable option to pursue. ...but it probably won't. The kids will likely not ever pull the bows out to the 28 inches they are tillered to. So, ...yes, the performance is not optimal, but it is fine. Both bows were able to bury the target arrows 8 - 10 inches into the target block at 20 yards, and more than that is really just over kill for a kids bow. Would I hunt deer with them? Certainly NOT! ...but I could give rabbits and squirrels heck all day long with them. A well designed tool is not necessarily the one that performs at the optimal end of the possible performance for the material it is made from, rather, a well designed tool is the one that meets the purpose for which it was designed effectively using the materials that were selected.OneBow
I wasn't criticising the bows they are fine looking bows, just trying to address the set that sleek was talking about