non-traditional trad bow.

[superdav95]

Ive made been making lots of these and testing them this past week while my recurves dry up.  this latest version has a center shot adaption to the handle which is more center shot then the last one i built.  still have some shaping to do on it yet as its a little chunky.  It shoots very well actually.  ranged around the mid 180's to upper 180's fps at 28" draw likley around 42-43lbs.  The bow is only 44lbs maybe 45 at 30" draw.  shooting 390grains arrows.  Still breaking it in and working my way out to 30" draw looking and watching for any issues.  so far so good.  thanks for looking guys. more to come!

im gonna try to post a few short video clips here using imgur. 

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[willie]

hi dave

I missed your bennding posts earlier, but two thoughts come to mind re: bending tips

1. boat builders sometimes "steam in place" with the wood inside a plastic bag and the steam piped in from a steam generator...tighten the clamps gently as you go

2. if you have issues with the tension side splintering you can clamp a strip of metal to the outside of the bend and force all the movement to the compression side.

[superdav95]

hi dave

I missed your bennding posts earlier, but two thoughts come to mind re: bending tips

1. boat builders sometimes "steam in place" with the wood inside a plastic bag and the steam piped in from a steam generator...tighten the clamps gently as you go

2. if you have issues with the tension side splintering you can clamp a strip of metal to the outside of the bend and force all the movement to the compression side.

Hey Willie.  Yes I’ve watched some of the steam bags in use and considered it.  The cyran wrap is essentially an adaptation of this and gets me to bend one area only.  The metal strip I’ve been using and it works well on the outside of the bend.  My boo strips are being bent with rind side on the back.  It’s much harder to bend the way I’m doing it I’ve found. 

[superdav95]

hey guys.  a little update on this project.  mores testing to come for sure but seems promising.  I managed to make a little bow out of those little test pieces for testing out my bending recurves jig system.  they seem to be holding at brace.  havent had a chance to shoot it yet but seems to be aroung 30lbs draw by feel.  the profile looks ok i may need to tweek it a bit yet.  the top limb is beding a little more then i like.  I did add some inner support under the little handle to build up a little more.  Ive done this before and will do more testing on this.  will update after holidays.  heres some pics. 

[sleek]

Outstanding! You literally got my ALL my attention in this!

[bjrogg]

It’s always nice learning from your experiments Dave. Thanks for sharing.

Bjrogg

[superdav95]

Outstanding! You literally got my ALL my attention in this!

Thanks Kevin!   Ya it should be interesting for sure to test this little thing out.  I’m hopeful that my recurve tips will hold.  Gonna do an actual set of bow limbs and get some more draw weight. 

[superdav95]

It’s always nice learning from your experiments Dave. Thanks for sharing.

Bjrogg

Thanks bj!   More to come on this. 

[WhistlingBadger]

Very interesting!  Thanks for sharing your experiments.  Bamboo is really interesting stuff.  I have a friend in Alabama (Chase, are you reading this?) who has tried to scrape bamboo down for laminations, without much success so far.  It seems to work by different rules than wood.