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Bows / Re: Snake bow
« Last post by Selfbowman on Today at 01:12:49 pm »All finished up. 🤠
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Primitive Skills / Re: A simple leather project
« Last post by bjrogg on Today at 12:41:59 pm »Really cool. I hear ya about not wanting to mess up a good piece of leather. I have a small brain tan hide I did a few years ago that I'm still too chicken to cut into.
After going through so much effort to brain tan it is hard for me to cut hide up too.
I like projects like this and I usually use commercial tanned hides and scraps
Having said that it also is hard to look at my brain tanned hides and see them not being used. I’m getting a little braver. I think I might try some more projects with them soon.
Bjrogg
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Bows / Re: Reflexed Ocean Spray
« Last post by Badger on Today at 12:14:59 pm » Great job on that. I have always really liked that design but I have so many failures trying to tiller them out. I usually go for about 2" of backset. Looking forward to a performance report.
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Bows / Re: Reflexed Ocean Spray
« Last post by bjrogg on Today at 10:44:51 am »I’m certain not an expert on that design, but I’m thinking your tiller looks good.
Have fun with it.
Bjrogg
Have fun with it.
Bjrogg
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Primitive Skills / Re: A simple leather project
« Last post by Aaron1726 on Today at 09:31:20 am »Really cool. I hear ya about not wanting to mess up a good piece of leather. I have a small brain tan hide I did a few years ago that I'm still too chicken to cut into 
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Bows / Re: Reflexed Ocean Spray
« Last post by Doug509 on Today at 01:17:26 am »Pappy thanks for your insight and encouragement. I removed the spongy center pith handle to tip reducing the draw weight a bit more. Then shortened limbs to 64" NTN. Final draw wt is 42# at 28". Tiller isnt perfect but Im calling it done. Ill do some light sanding, leave the bark on and seal with tru oil. I will say ocean spray has amazing flexibility. Ill be looking for more staves this winter. A 1.5" diameter tree would be perfect. I have some shafts harvested ready to make arrows.
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Primitive Skills / Re: A simple leather project
« Last post by bjrogg on December 11, 2025, 10:49:20 pm »Thanks white falcon, I’m glad you like it
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Bows / Re: The best shape for a reflexed bow?
« Last post by RyanY on December 11, 2025, 08:26:04 pm »@ ryan, virtualbow outputs a graphic view as if on the tiller tree that one can reference for any stage of the draw when making tillering adjustments. Selfbowman had acess to a 36" printer and we once worked on enlarging Virtualbow plots to put behind bow when on the tiller tree.
That would be an amazing tool! I keep meaning to play with it but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.
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Bows / Re: Black locusts bow
« Last post by JW_Halverson on December 11, 2025, 05:23:41 pm »Ya JW there is a story about that deer. The first time he was at almost full draw on it when the bow I made blew. He called me said I need another bow Arvin. What happened to the one you’ve been shooting. He told the story and I’m thinking and he wants another one. Ok??? I told him I had one that was probably in the top ten I had made. He drove 170 miles the next day to get the bow. Shot it about 4-5 times and we did some trading and went home with it. So I guess he liked the way the first one shot. The second time the Arvin bow got it done.🤠🤠🤠🤠it’s good to have guys that confident in your equipment.
He'll have more than a few meals in his belly courtesy of that confidence!
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Bows / Re: The best shape for a reflexed bow?
« Last post by Tuomo on December 11, 2025, 04:02:01 pm »I am using version 9.1 and do not recall seeing outputs for strain. Are you using a development version to get your strain values?
Yes, I am using a development version 0.10. It has strain-values as an output, and you can give an fixed grains per pound -value for the arrow. It seems that it is also more accurate. Version 0.9.1 gives a bit skewed results.