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Offline DC

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Boo Yew RD
« on: July 02, 2020, 12:59:29 pm »
This is my latest attempt at 200fps. It's a Boo backed Yew 65"NTN following the curves. 1.25" wide at the fades tapering evenly to .75" at the base of the recurves. Tips are .4" wide. Weighs 492grams(17 1/2 oz). Draws 39#@28". Shoots 198fps@10gpp. Close but no cigar :D When I took it off the caul it had 5 3/4" of reflex. By the time I'd finished tillering it was down to 3 1/4". It was shooting around 195fps. I decided to try a 250 grain arrow. It shot 221fps but split the shoulders off the pin nocks. Don't use 6 strand D97 strings on pin nocks :D. You can see the splits in one of the pics. The string slide about 6" under the boo splits. I thought it was done for but I CA'ed the splits down. I had to pike it an inch because the tip was too damaged. So now it has 2 1/4" reflex. It gained 2# DW so I tidied up the tiller a touch and it ended at 39# but it shot 198 so I was pleased. I'm satisfied with the FD pic but the braced one shows that the bottom limb is too stiff. I may fix that, I'm undecided. I haven't shot it much so that will be the deciding point.

PS I just traced it out and flipped it and the lower limb has 3/8" more reflex so maybe the tiller is OK

PPS bad news. My scale has three options pounds, kilograms and jin. A Jin is a Chinese weight that equals 1.1023 pounds. My scale somehow got on "Jin" which is close enough that I didn't notice. So once I put it on "pounds" the bow weighs 42#, not 39#. This means my arrow was too light. True speed is 191fps. I'm bummed. I'm not sure when the scale got changed. I'm hoping it was recently. I thought this was too good to be true.
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Offline DC

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« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2020, 01:00:43 pm »
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Boo Yew RD
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2020, 01:03:14 pm »
That's definitely a recurve and a very nice one at that. Well done.   :OK
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Re: Boo Yew RD
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2020, 01:36:50 pm »
Wow DC, you came close to the bar.
Fine build btw. Well done.
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Offline willie

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Re: Boo Yew RD
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2020, 02:18:46 pm »
allllllllllllll...... most        still v cool @ 198  8)

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Offline Tommy D

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Re: Boo Yew RD
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2020, 02:51:04 pm »
Shoot it with a tail wind...
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Offline Sagebrush

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Re: Boo Yew RD
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2020, 10:10:06 pm »
How do you do your recurves??? Are you bending the yew and the bamboo separately then gluing up on the caul?  I've not come up with a great solution yet.  Thank you sir and strong work!!!
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Offline DC

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« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2020, 11:24:53 pm »
Yes, I bend them separately. I steam the Yew and bend the Boo with a heat gun. Just heat the outside of the Boo and push it into a concave caul. It takes about two minutes to heat and bend, and about ten minutes to cool. I'll post a pic of the caul tomorrow.
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Offline silent sniper

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Re: Boo Yew RD
« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2020, 05:35:02 am »
Very nice DC! How do you like the belly lam over handle design? I have always pondered trying it but haven’t attempted it yet.
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Offline Will B

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Re: Boo Yew RD
« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2020, 06:54:03 am »
That is a great bow!  Very impressive results. Do you happen to have a photo of your caul?  Thanks!
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Offline Selfbowman

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Re: Boo Yew RD
« Reply #11 on: July 03, 2020, 07:13:47 am »
Very nice and fast DC.  Have you built a fifty pounder like that? And would you get those # s  with 50#Bow and a 450 gr arrow. Next why are you not at wendover? Arvin
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: Boo Yew RD
« Reply #12 on: July 03, 2020, 07:28:55 am »
Nice, great speed for that poundage  :o
Del
... and you've learned why people use tip overlays and not pin nocks  >:D ;D ::) ;)
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Offline mmattockx

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Re: Boo Yew RD
« Reply #13 on: July 03, 2020, 09:01:28 am »
Quote from: silent sniper on July 03, 2020, 05:35:02 am
How do you like the belly lam over handle design?

Good question. I didn't notice that on first look at the pics as I was too busy admiring the super clean detail work. Running the lam up the fades is the ultimate solution to handles popping off.

DC, did you steam and pre-bend the belly lams to fit up the fades?


Quote from: Del the cat on July 03, 2020, 07:28:55 am
Nice, great speed for that poundage  :o

Why would the poundage matter much when the arrows are normalized to 10gpp?


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Offline DC

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Re: Boo Yew RD
« Reply #14 on: July 03, 2020, 09:52:29 am »
Quote from: silent sniper on July 03, 2020, 05:35:02 am
Very nice DC! How do you like the belly lam over handle design? I have always pondered trying it but haven’t attempted it yet.
I kinda like the look. I can get an extra 2.5" in length so I can use shorter billets. There is a bit of fiddling to get a decent glue line. These aren't as good as they look in the pictures. Sometimes a blurry camera is a blessing. I steam the belly to the curve I want and then trace that shape on to the riser. Then cut that out with the band saw.
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