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Bows / Re: American Flatbow Oak Board Bow 53lb @ 26"
« Last post by Pappy on November 28, 2025, 09:26:15 am »Beautiful bow, very well done. 
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Bows / Re: Strongly reflexed bow turning inside out!
« Last post by Badger on November 28, 2025, 09:06:27 am » Wood is not really suitable for highly reflexed bows. The reason is because a highly reflexed bow has to have very short working areas to maintain any kind of stability and wood will either break or take too much set if it doesn't have enough working limb. Look at the modern Asiatic bows, they have very short working areas. Your desing has to be able to tolerate the materials you are using.
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Flintknapping / Re: Recent stone points
« Last post by GlisGlis on November 28, 2025, 08:06:44 am »very nice points
they look consistent in their variety
they look consistent in their variety
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Bows / Re: Reflexed Ocean Spray
« Last post by Del the cat on November 28, 2025, 08:03:26 am »I would deflex the handle. It would be very unstable with all that reflexWhat he says
Plus, with that much reflex, it will be hell's own job to brace it, and then it may end up under weight because it's been worked down so much just to brace it.
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Bows / Re: American Flatbow Oak Board Bow 53lb @ 26"
« Last post by Hamish on November 28, 2025, 07:05:47 am »Another lovely, well crafted bow. Great job on the tiller.
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Bows / American Flatbow Oak Board Bow 53lb @ 26"
« Last post by Threy Cameron on November 28, 2025, 06:36:38 am »Hey everyone!
Finished up another bow the last one of a set of 4 adult bows from an American Red oak board. The board so far has yielded 4 bows with 4 additional kids bows in the works.
The bow is 68" long and is the first bow where I've incorporated the TBB mass principle the bow ended up being 19oz. right on the money. I learned from my previous heat treatments and managed to slowly and gently cook the limbs resulting in very little set so far. The bows limbs are 2 inches wide at the fades for a little over half the limb before tapering to 1/2" nocks. I shot for an elliptical tiller and believe I pulled it off.
The handle is brain tanned buckskin created by my brother with NZ possum fur string dampeners.
Cheers guys
Finished up another bow the last one of a set of 4 adult bows from an American Red oak board. The board so far has yielded 4 bows with 4 additional kids bows in the works.
The bow is 68" long and is the first bow where I've incorporated the TBB mass principle the bow ended up being 19oz. right on the money. I learned from my previous heat treatments and managed to slowly and gently cook the limbs resulting in very little set so far. The bows limbs are 2 inches wide at the fades for a little over half the limb before tapering to 1/2" nocks. I shot for an elliptical tiller and believe I pulled it off.
The handle is brain tanned buckskin created by my brother with NZ possum fur string dampeners.
Cheers guys
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Bows / Re: Reflexed Ocean Spray
« Last post by medicinewheel on November 28, 2025, 02:33:41 am »... I was considering reflexing the handle with steam to deflex limbs and make a reflex deflex bow. ...
Guess you ment to say deflexing here??
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Bows / Re: Strongly reflexed bow turning inside out!
« Last post by WhistlingBadger on November 28, 2025, 12:14:52 am »And tiller slowly, Pierce. 
No problem there--this thing is so snaky I think I'm going to do most of the tillering with a cabinet scraper.
No problem there--this thing is so snaky I think I'm going to do most of the tillering with a cabinet scraper.29
Bows / Re: Strongly reflexed bow turning inside out!
« Last post by WhistlingBadger on November 28, 2025, 12:13:08 am »Interesting. So the solution is to brace it higher. That's counter-intuitive! I'll give it a shot. Thanks, guys.
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Bows / Re: Strongly reflexed bow turning inside out!
« Last post by pierce_schmeichel on November 27, 2025, 11:54:53 pm »Definitely do not take sinew off. If you need to make it bend more just take more wood off the belly very slowly. It is very very easy to remove too much wood when tillering a high reflex juniper bow. Once you get past that snap back point the bow doesnt have as much draw weight as you think. Thats actually one of the things that makes sinew backed juniper bows so darn powerful haha. Kinda straightens the draw weight curve out a bit.