Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: RyanY on May 01, 2020, 03:08:46 pm
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Just finished up this White Oak ALB (American Longbow). It is made from a piece of white oak that I cut and tillered years ago while still green. Took a few inches of set at that point but I was able to heat treat it out. Holds very mild reflex while unbraced so I think it evened out. 34#@28", 66" NTN. 4" handle with 3" fades. 1.5" wide at the fades to just under 1.5" at mid limb, and then taper to 3/8" nocks. Nock overlays are of white oak. Limbs are symmetrical in length so I made the limb that took less set the bottom limb. Leather handle and arrow rest with white oak insert at the arrow pass. Had some fun shooting this one as it was the first time using a chronograph. Was shooting around 145fps average with 450 grain arrows or ~13grains/lb, Highest I could get was 152fps. Let me know what you think!
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Nice white oak ALB, Ryan. 152fps for a 34# bow is pretty impressive...and with stitching like that on your handle wrap you could have been a surgeon. ;)
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+1 If you got a 340 grain arrow so you were at 10 gr per pound your speed should go way up.
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Thanks guys. I’m curious what it would be with a lighter arrow. I’m really liking this lighter draw weight to get back into shooting more. Hard to make arrows that light though!
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Beautiful representation of an ALB. That stitching definitely caught my eye. Really nice looking bow.
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I think it looks great, and pretty snappy too. I agree about making lighter spined arrows. They seem so flimsy.
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Lighter arrows and feeling flimsy, I hear you (31# "retraining bow with 14gpp 435 grain arrows was my answer to your type of arrow question.)
Bet that is a fun bow to shoot.
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Beautiful white oak bow. Fine Craftsmanship. I just started to go thru some of my other bow woods and was going to build a white oak bow when I discovered all my wood is cracking/checking. trying to savage what I can. John
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Very nice. Tiller is excellent. Jawge
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Great job. Classic looking ALB and that tiller is spot on.
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Beautiful classic ALB 👍🏻. Nice work!
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Very well done. It sure deserves ultra light arrows, even just for speed testing. There must be a way to calculate the 10 GPP arrow speed with the figures you have, at least approximately.
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excellent bow... it's great to see yet another option for people looking for local woods to build a bow. Thanks.
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Nice bow all around Ryan :OK
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sweet bow Ryan!!! thats really cool!!
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That is a nice bow
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Very clean and simple Doc, nice rig.
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Thanks everyone! Really appreciate the feedback.
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I need to make a bow from that stuff too.Well done.I imagine it will shoot into the upper 160's/170's for sure with a 10 grain arrow.Some spruce shaft type wood could work.
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In my "primitive" way of thinking, we can get the kinetic energy from given figures and get 166-167 fps for 10 gpp arrows, using the same formula. No math involved on my part.
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Very impressive work, I like the elegant simplicity.
Never worked with white oak, your bow makes me curious ....
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Good lookin' project, doc.
May be in need of low weight elegantly styled bow. Will have to consider this to copy!
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Good looking bow! Love the colors of the heat treat on the belly. Your calligraphic work just tops it. THe numbers are great!
Thanks for sharing.