Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Digital Caveman on January 14, 2021, 10:40:02 am
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Here is my latest bow. It is a heat tempered Hophornbeam D-bow with antler overlays.
60" long, 1 1/4" wide at the center, 13oz mass, about 5/8" set right after being unstrung. It settles back to virtually none.
The string is flemish twist FF.
It pulls 44# @ 24".
This came from a very small diameter stave I cut a little over a year ago. The stave warped sideways, so I had to cut it short in order to lay it out straight enough. I have been working on it for a while; I recently reduced the draw weight to about 30#. After I tempered out 2" of set it was back at 44#. Good by me! The finish is one coat of stain and two coats of polly; it brings out the grain really well.
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simple. beautiful. nicely done.
-Fox
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Now, that's a bow! :OK Well done.
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Good job on that one. Definitely becoming my favorite style bow to make. Simple, functional, durable, and fine to look at. You can get all that from a very small tree. Cannot see any downside to it at all.
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Good job on that one. Definitely becoming my favorite style bow to make. Simple, functional, durable, and fine to look at. You can get all that from a very small tree. Cannot see any downside to it at all.
That is a great summary of my work in any material :)
I'm really starting to like these character bows. They're a challenge to tiller, but they are so much more natural than recurves and lam bows. It's only a bending stick, but it's a very good bending stick!
Heat tempered HHB is now defiantly my favorite material. It is very elastic and the grain practically glows in the sunlight.
I was a little skeptical of the accuracy of a short bow, but it does as well as any of my longer bows. I think this is my new favorite stump shooter/squirrel hunter.
Here are more photos. I hope you see why I like the grain so much on this one. :)
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I'll bring this back to the top in case anyone can't find it. Please vote for January BOM ;D
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Love it. This is my favorite bow design. Did you heat treat close to full draw? I notice a lot of dark stuff still on belly. This is a challenge for me. I often scrape a lot of it off
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I heat tempered this after I was done tillering. It had more set than I wanted, so I gave it a shot. On other bows I generally temper after floor tiller and again at full draw.
This was really just a marginal piece of wood I decided to do what I could with. It has bit more set after unstringing now, but fully relaxed the set is still les then 1/2".
This splinter did not go away during tillering. It's so small I'm not concerned about it structurally (I glued it to be sure), but I may wrap it with sinew and stain it for looks.
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Lots of nice character in your bow. Well made.
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very nice, congrats,, :)
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Very nice. gotta love how hhb looks after heat treating.
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Good looking bend on that one, nice job. :)
Pappy