Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: straightarrow on March 07, 2019, 01:32:05 pm
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Hi everyone, I've been away for awhile. Still building bows but never get around to posting. Such a pain to upload pictures. I'm not real tech savvy. Anyhow wanted to share my most recent build. It's a 65" hickory pyramid bow with black walnut overlays. It pulls 44#@28" and only took a half inch of set and a half inch of string follow after shooting. Hopefully I'm successful with the upload this time around. Thanks for looking, Jon
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Tips
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Tiller
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Unbraced
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Beauty
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Nice bow, could the fades be bending more. I'm sure others will chime in about the profile.
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I'm not squared up in the picture. I can assure you it's bending coming out of the fades.
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Nice looking bow! Well done! I bet it’s a sweet shooter.
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Looks good.
What kind of finish do you have on it?
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I used five coats of tru-oil. Just rubbed on and steel wool in between
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Bow looks good.
I can see what Woodely is saying about the tiller. Pyramid bows usually have a bit more bend near the fades than bows with more parallel limbs because the widest part of the limbs is near the fades. Its more pronounced when a pyramid bow has really wide limbs over 2". Nevertheless your bow has little string follow, so I think you have still done well. It can be tricky to find the balance because the last place you want concentrated set in any bow design is near the fades. How wide are your limbs?
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I was probably around two inches at the fades. I don't have the exact measurements because I already have it to my buddy. Here's a tiller pic when it was almost finished. I was stiff in the one fade and gave it few final scrapes
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After this photo was taken I scraped the lower limb in the fade area. I tillered the bottom limb about a 1/4" stiff
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Looks great! Nice simple and elegant finish too. :OK
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Nice bow (-S
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Good job!
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Nice bow!
Hawkdancer
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Sweet :)
Del
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+1 and i like your walnut nock,too!
Cheers B2W
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Looks good very elegant while keeping simplicity, a question am o the only one seeing some reflex here or is that just me? all in all, awesome
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Very nice like the tips to.no critique here
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Bow looks good.
I can see what Woodely is saying about the tiller. Pyramid bows usually have a bit more bend near the fades than bows with more parallel limbs because the widest part of the limbs is near the fades. Its more pronounced when a pyramid bow has really wide limbs over 2". Nevertheless your bow has little string follow, so I think you have still done well. It can be tricky to find the balance because the last place you want concentrated set in any bow design is near the fades. How wide are your limbs?
Ya but ya dont want the mid limbs bending to malarkey either. I would rather have a little string follow than bending in wrong spots. But thats just me... (SH)
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I think saying the mid limbs bending to malarkey is a bit harsh. If that was the case it would have taken more than 1/2" of set. Did you see the other tiller pic I posted on page one? You can clearly see that it's bending coming out of the fades. Yeah it might not be absolutely perfect tiller but calling it malarkey, is malarkey
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What a beautiful bow. Nice profile. Spot on tiller......... please post more of your work!
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I think saying the mid limbs bending to malarkey is a bit harsh. If that was the case it would have taken more than 1/2" of set. Did you see the other tiller pic I posted on page one? You can clearly see that it's bending coming out of the fades. Yeah it might not be absolutely perfect tiller but calling it malarkey, is malarkey
I did not say that your limbs were bending to malarkey (figure of speech), just a statement I'm making about tillering is all, not criticizing it just saying the way I would rather have a bow tillered is all.
"Did you see the other tiller pic I posted on page one? You can clearly see that it's bending coming out of the fades." Quite honestly I do not see very much bending. But then again my eyes are not what they use to be.
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Gotcha, sorry for the misunderstanding.
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Thank you, kbear. I just finished up a Osage shorty last night I'll probably post some pics this weekend
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I think the tiller looks great. Very nice job on that bow. As far as perfect tiller, I've never been able to achieve it personally. I can always see where I might have fallen a little short so I don't even trip over it anymore. I used to have to try and be a perfectionitist on my bows and I came to the realization that with imperfect wood being worked by an imperfect guy I would have to be satsified with really good but not perfect. How it shoots and how it holds up over the long haul tells the whole story. Once again, good job.
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Jon, another beauty. Just the way I likem Plain and Deadly , It will kill. Bob