Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: BowSlayer on November 08, 2013, 07:27:20 pm
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Has anyone made or seen a bow made from jatoba. Looks like a nice wood. Just want to know if it will make a bow as I might have access to some. Thanks
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It can make a nice bow, but a lot of the time I get it chrysaling.
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Same here, I had a 40# light weight flatbow chrysal on me for no reason.
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I've had decent luck with jatoba. All ELBs of moderate weight. Here's one I did last spring... maple backed jatoba, 70" NTN, 48#@27". Minimal set.
The guy wanted a 'yew look-a-like' ELB. As close to yew as possible, without the cost.
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Good job ADB, thats a good design for Jatoba. Very fast wood but can chrysal very easily if you crowd tiller as i often do. I have made several R/d bows from it, great wood if carefully tillered but most of mine had at least minor chrsaling.
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Thanks for the response guys. I might just give it a try. Ill watch out for the chrysals
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oh yeah sweeeeet bow there Adb! what's the backing?
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Read adb's post...
... maple backed jatoba, 70" NTN, 48#@27".
Run a search for jatoba. There is SOO much to be found! It's all right there at your finger tips. You just need to run a search for jatoba, instead of opening a new topic.
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Good job ADB, thats a good design for Jatoba. Very fast wood but can chrysal very easily if you crowd tiller as i often do. I have made several R/d bows from it, great wood if carefully tillered but most of mine had at least minor chrsaling.
Thanks, Steve... appreciate the compliment. I made this ELB a bit wider and it has a flat belly... something I don't normally do with ELBs. It also has a small jatoba riser in the grip.
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Is that grip area thickened with a glued on piece or am I just seeing a grain line?
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Ok kinda of topic butdoes anyone know any trustworthy sellers of laminated staves on eBay?
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I've never see a laminated stave on eBay.
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Is that grip area thickened with a glued on piece or am I just seeing a grain line?
Yes. The guy didn't want ANY hand shock, so I built up the riser with another piece of jatoba and made the tiller a bit more elliptical than I normally do. Not bendy handle, like most ELBs.
I treat jatoba kinda like cherry... overbuilt a bit, wider and flatter, and very carefully tillered with lots of exercising between sessions and NO mistakes.
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6 or 7 years ago I was at the flight shoots and had not really planned on shooting in a certain event. I had a d/r bamboo backed jatoba in the car about 65# but several chysals in the limbs. I decided to go ahead and shoot it and got a national record with it. It reminds me of black locust a lot the way it works.
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BowSlayer, you clearly aren't reading posts to the full. Stop just looking at pictures and read the text.
I also sense that you are going to try to "contract out" your promise to build a bow for someone. If you can't actually deliver, just say so.
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I've said this to you before Bowslayer, but I really think that you would be better off going out into the countryside with a saw and looking for a good elm, ash etc sapling about 3or4inches in diameter. You could start at the beginning and craft a really good finished bow with all the help on here.
Also if you see the name of a wood type on PA, and don't know what it is, you can easily use your phone or computer to look it up. I use;
http:///google.co.uk
Make sure you do this
Keef
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thank's Pat and Keef ill go out to the woods if this rain would only stop for 5 mins. lol. until then it's going to be bord bows. oh i got some jatoba but it was v. expensive as far as wood goes.
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BowSlayer, you clearly aren't reading posts to the full. Stop just looking at pictures and read the text.
I also sense that you are going to try to "contract out" your promise to build a bow for someone. If you can't actually deliver, just say so.
after talking it over with him I decided to sell him my oak recuve once i add a leather handle. still wan't to try a ELB tho
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I'd be careful about selling anybody anything young man. How would you feel if someone got hurt? Don't you think you should maybe build a few more bows before you hang out your shingle and turn pro??
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I NEVER sell a high draw bow to anyone (over 50lb). Honestly if I thought they could be trusted to know how to care for it and use it I kinda think they'd know hoe to make it (or want to know how).
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It seems i GIVE away all my bows ;D
Much better that way...no liability and hopefully more traditional Archers >:D 8)
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i find that since im low on money if i make a bow from a board i need the amount that the board cost me to make up for losses, that helps to keep me in operation.