Laminated Bow - BBO Double Curve, Inset Handle

[snedeker]

62" ntn, 55# at 27", 1&3/16 wide at fade, 7/16 tips with brown sage inlays.  Ipe power lam 13" long, walnut and hickory built up handle. This is poor osage with thick early growth I cut.  Dry heated ub the curves.  Based on a combination of the concepts of Ryan's plains bow and Frank's bows, both double curved, from back in the winter.  Sort of northern plains meets s. asia.  Its a nice design for this wood.  Good cast and smooth.

Dave

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[david w.]

That is awesome!  I love it!    Great bow

[Badger]

Nice job Dave, beautiful bow.  Steve

[wytetale]

I really like the profile, sweet bow

[The Burnt Hill Archer]

That is just about gorgeous! i love the unbraced profile. good job!

Phil

[jwillis]

That looks really good.  Jim

[brian melton]

Really nice Dave!!

[radius]

yessir that is one fine weapon, amigo

[medicinewheel]

FANTASTIC !!!

frank

[knightd]

Good looking bow.. I like that design..

 David

[snedeker]

Thanks.  I lost a leeetle too much of the curve on the end of the top limb in the draw.  The lower limb looks like its bending a touch more but I think there a little more deflexed bend mid limb there, producing that effect.  I have three sister slats I plan compare other designs on with the same specs.

Dave

[radius]

I want to make one like that...could you give me some pointers, please?  Do you have pictures of the process so you could do a buildalong?  I would really appreciate that....What a cool design!

Scott

[ThimoS]

Hey Dave that's a sweet looking bow there buddy.

[Justin Snyder]

Sweet looking bow Dave.  Justin

[radius]

WELL.....(&(*(&*&(#$&^!!!!!!

I liked it so much I went out to the shop and glued up a couple laminations into a good copy.  I used 2 f-clamps to hold down the center (4 inches from outside to outside of the clamps).  Then I placed a 1.5" block 6.5 " out from each of those clamps, to reflex the limbs.  I placed 4" blocks under the tips, and 6.5" in from the tips I used f-clamps to create recurves...brought the limbs down so that they were 2.25" from the benchtop. 

I used TB2.  The laminations are of edge-grained white ash.

The bottle says clamp time 30 minutes.  I went out for an hour, came back, undid the thing and POP!  the lams came apart.  Usually I wait overnight, but I wanted to leave the shop clean for my buddy (whose shop it really is)...now they're no good.  Have to start again....G'dammit!