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mikekeswick

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Re: Help with youth bow design
« Reply #15 on: October 23, 2016, 03:22:38 am »
How to teach them how to shoot? Which eye? What handed? Just let him pick it up and pull. He will do it right for him :)
I made a pair of bows for my friends twin daughters when they were 9. One of the most statisfying things I ever did. One of them is a pure number crunching mathematic genius now and other is a proper tom boy...nature versus nurture...I've since made the tom boy one another bow, osage and it pulls 43#@26. She shoots it like a boss!
Anything that gets children interested in proper things is to be commended.
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Offline Knoll

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Re: Help with youth bow design
« Reply #16 on: October 23, 2016, 10:57:29 am »
Quote from: lebhuntfish on October 22, 2016, 10:55:19 pm
The last kids bow I made was the one on the auction table at mojam.  I think it was 52 inch bendy handle. 25@24.

If that bow had been couple lbs heavier it would have gone home with me and gifted to one of the neighbor boys whose parents have been looking for just such a  stick.
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Re: Help with youth bow design
« Reply #17 on: October 23, 2016, 11:33:16 am »
  A few years ago i was at the classic and this boy about 10 asked me if I would help him finish his bow. He only had 15 min before he ran out of time to shoot. He had a huge hinge in one limb and the bow was already so light it doubt it would even scale. I ended up scraping in a matching hinge on the other side and dropping the bow down to about 10# at his draw weight before he could draw the bow.
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Offline lebhuntfish

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Re: Help with youth bow design
« Reply #18 on: October 24, 2016, 05:26:42 pm »
Quote from: Knoll on October 23, 2016, 10:57:29 am
Quote from: lebhuntfish on October 22, 2016, 10:55:19 pm
The last kids bow I made was the one on the auction table at mojam.  I think it was 52 inch bendy handle. 25@24.

If that bow had been couple lbs heavier it would have gone home with me and gifted to one of the neighbor boys whose parents have been looking for just such a  stick.

Thanks Mike,  I do have to say that little bow sure turned out nice. 

Patrick
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Offline BowEd

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Re: Help with youth bow design
« Reply #19 on: October 24, 2016, 06:11:37 pm »
Just making a bow long enough to pike it every once in a while should work too to keep up with the childs strength increases.
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Re: Help with youth bow design
« Reply #20 on: October 24, 2016, 06:25:40 pm »
Quote from: Beadman on October 24, 2016, 06:11:37 pm
Just making a bow long enough to pike it every once in a while should work too to keep up with the childs strength increases.


Ed in my opinion you build it a little long with a low draw weight like15# at 20" but tiller it outto 26" as the youth grows his draw length increases and so does the draw weight
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Re: Help with youth bow design
« Reply #21 on: October 24, 2016, 06:43:21 pm »
Sure that'll work too.
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