Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: MotherGoose on May 21, 2014, 09:50:29 pm
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Hello newb question... I was given a milled yew board... 77 inches long 2.75 wide and an inch thick...the grain is at an angle on the end and has no sap wood. Is this possible to make a flat bow with?
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got any pictures? If it was mine I'd back it with bamboo.
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Oops too small...I'm having a hard time getting pictures to post
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What are you taking the photo with? If you can get a decent quality image and resize it to just under 200kb in size that should be big enough to see the grain and small enough to upload from your pc.
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Using my iPad. Can't seem to figure out how to resize correctly
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iPad. Hmmm. I use Paint to do it, but I believe there is an app you can download which will resize pictures for you. If it gives you a file size option, choose just under 200kb, if it goes by pixels, start off with 800x600 and see if that gives you a file under 200kb. The actual imagesize vs. size of file will vary between photos.
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hickory is another backing option.
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So if I back it do I have to worry about chasing a grain? It is at a 45 degree angle as it sits now...
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It's angled on the end, but how does the grain look running lengthwise down the board?
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Looks fine to me. Put some bamboo of there and you won't be sorry :)
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Looks like a damn nice yew board to me!
I would split it lengthwise, flip one slat, glue it back together and back it with boo or hick for a tri-lam.
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nice board. bamboo would look good on it. if theres any wood that can handle grain violation its yew
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Looks like a good board, although I can only see the grain in the first half of the length. If the half further away from the camera looks equally straight grained without knots, it's a great board. Saw it in half so you get two slats of 1¼" wide and glue a bamboo or hickory backing to it. It would be a shame to make only one 1½" wide flatbow from this board, if it could yield two longbows.
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Nice board.
You can probably back it with just about anything that has clean straight grain, something off a tree would be nice. I've even used sapwood from a young ornamental Yew that was nearly all sapwood, sawed off a slice and used it back some heartwood that had rotten sapwood.
If you use 'boo keep it fairy thin. You can make just about any style bow with that board.
Del
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That is a very nice yew board. While it looks straight grain, I would not attempt to split it lengthwise. I would be tempted to cut it like this to yield two flatbow belly slats and one ELB belly slat:
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I'm with Carson... on no account try to split it... there is no point. (unless you are short of firewood)
It is going to be backed and some grain run off on the belly doesn't matter a tinkers cuss with Yew.
Del
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Cool I like the idea of getting more than 1 bow out of it...here is a pic of some more grain on it
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There is one knot...