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Offline Onebowonder

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Re: Black locust 50#@25"
« Reply #15 on: October 10, 2017, 09:38:19 am »
Looks good Kyle.  The slight bit of reflex in the unbraced profile is always attractive!

I've been shooting your ERC bow from the MOJAM auction for the last month or two and really love it.

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Offline Knoll

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Re: Black locust 50#@25"
« Reply #16 on: October 10, 2017, 11:31:44 am »
Looks mighty good, Kyle. Congrats!
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Re: Black locust 50#@25"
« Reply #17 on: October 10, 2017, 05:09:31 pm »
Nice tiller, and I bet it's a sweet shooter too.
With that wide profile and thin limbs, you have very little or any set, right?
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Offline Mo_coon-catcher

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Re: Black locust 50#@25"
« Reply #18 on: October 10, 2017, 07:32:37 pm »
I'm glad you like the cedar bow onebow! That's one if those bows I wanted to keep for myself, but am happy with who it went to. I hope it keeps being a god bow for you. Has it picked up any more weight from the sinew curing?

This bow didn't take much set at all. Probably 1/2", if that.

Kyle
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Re: Black locust 50#@25"
« Reply #19 on: October 10, 2017, 07:37:41 pm »
Nice looking bow.
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Offline Hawkdancer

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Re: Black locust 50#@25"
« Reply #20 on: October 10, 2017, 10:33:23 pm »
Kyle,
Good looking bow, nice job.  I!m about to start roughing the hickory stave to shape, just got to make a bow bench and tiller tree!  Got it marked out at 66".  Will shoot for 45 - 50# @ 26".
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Offline Aaron H

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Re: Black locust 50#@25"
« Reply #21 on: October 11, 2017, 09:20:39 pm »
Awesome bow Kyle
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Offline simson

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Re: Black locust 50#@25"
« Reply #22 on: October 12, 2017, 12:32:09 pm »
Kyle, thats an excellent design for BL. The bow looks very nice!
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Offline sleek

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Re: Black locust 50#@25"
« Reply #23 on: October 12, 2017, 01:40:35 pm »
Quote from: Mo_coon-catcher on October 10, 2017, 07:32:37 pm
I'm glad you like the cedar bow onebow! That's one if those bows I wanted to keep for myself, but am happy with who it went to. I hope it keeps being a god bow for you. Has it picked up any more weight from the sinew curing?

This bow didn't take much set at all. Probably 1/2", if that.

Kyle

Where did it take set and why do you think it did? A bow that wide should have been able to resist set fairly well? I love its looks, shape, and your craftsmanship you put into it.

I ask about the set, because I am trying to learn some things about it. Not nocking you over ut at all...
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Offline Mo_coon-catcher

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Re: Black locust 50#@25"
« Reply #24 on: October 12, 2017, 03:27:31 pm »
Thanks guys!
Hawkdancer, you'll have to keep us updated on how they go. I hope those staves will work out for you and get some good shooters.
Sleek, I'd say the set is just and all over set. Not much, but just a little bit in each area. Maybe a bit more midlimb if anything. I bent in about 3/4-1" or so of reflex when I heat treated. It is still holding about 1/2" or so of the reflex. One limb had a bit of reflex ad the other had a bit of deflex before I heat treated. I tried to even it out when I heat treated. The reflexes limb stayed put and the deflected lower limb sprung back a but more than I'd hoped for, but not too bad.

Kyle
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Offline Mo_coon-catcher

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Re: Black locust 50#@25"
« Reply #25 on: October 14, 2017, 02:08:35 pm »
Well, he can over to shoot it a bit and pick it up. About 20 shots in, CRUNCH! The lower limb peeled in half. Needless to say, he's gonna get a new one. But the limb states coming apart at the fade where I left an angular ridge where it went from fades to the handle. I used a saw to pre cut the dipps for the fades, I guess I didn't get the entire cut out. So between that groove and the sharp corner, it raised a splinter than ran down the limb splitting it inhalf. It makes you sick for a good shooting now to break so soon and in someone else's hands. And it even had a few hundred shots through it before that. I had been pulling it to 25" draw and he only pulled it to 24". Either way, no more corners left on the fades.

Kyle
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Offline stuckinthemud

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Re: Black locust 50#@25", and she broke
« Reply #26 on: October 14, 2017, 02:25:30 pm »
Little bit of Cyano an it'll go back together no problems. :-) gutted for you!
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Offline DuBois

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Re: Black locust 50#@25", and she broke
« Reply #27 on: October 14, 2017, 03:46:00 pm »
Bummer man
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Offline TimBo

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Re: Black locust 50#@25", and she broke
« Reply #28 on: October 14, 2017, 06:11:28 pm »
That's too bad - it was looking really nice.
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Offline sleek

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Re: Black locust 50#@25", and she broke
« Reply #29 on: October 14, 2017, 09:56:40 pm »
Repair it. Its not far from a regular laminate at this point. Then to keep the back laid down good at the handle, laminate a piece over it and shape to comfort.
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