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Bows / Re: Osage Selfbow
« Last post by bentstick54 on November 17, 2025, 11:30:34 pm »Side profiles
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Bows / Osage Selfbow
« Last post by bentstick54 on November 17, 2025, 11:28:51 pm »I finished up my last one for awhile,due to getting a minor hand surgery. I decided to try flipping the tips for the 1st time. Heated out 1 small hump in the upper limb, and evened up both limbs to be straight. ( No reflex). 66 ntn, 46#@ 28. 1-1/2 wide at fades, tapering to 1 wide 7 from tips, the tapering to 3/8 tips.
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Bows / Re: Black locusts bow
« Last post by Badger on November 17, 2025, 10:14:31 pm »Steve would 69 be long enough? Its 2-3/8 wide at fades.
I would say yes, In the past I have always made them too narrow and a bit shorter. Very fast wood. I think your dimensions should be ideal.
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Around the Campfire / Re: update pics of my head
« Last post by sleek on November 17, 2025, 09:43:38 pm »As far as a cracked squash goes, its looking pretty good Pat. Its frightening to realize how quickly things can go bad, and thankfully, this doesnt seem like its gonna hurt your looks much.
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Bows / Re: Black locusts bow
« Last post by bassman211 on November 17, 2025, 09:27:58 pm »Black locust can be your best friend, or your worst enemy when it comes to building a bow with it. Early on, and a lot my tillering fault the first black locust log I cut staves from either broke on the back , or ended up with belly frets. 2nd log I found laying along side the road with no center in it. It was dense as h111, and to heavy to carry to my truck, so I split it on the spot. I got 4 nice bows from that log. No frets, and no broken backs. Thought I had it all figured out. 3rd log was a bust too. Just like any other wood. Some logs are good for bow making ,and others not so much with in the same species.
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Bows / Re: Picture size ?
« Last post by mmattockx on November 17, 2025, 09:03:26 pm »I use Imgur, a photo storage site. It's free and it gives you options for sizing photos for different applications.
You don't have to resize pictures when you link to them on Imgur, the forum software automatically resizes the image to fit the forum layout. As a bonus, you can click on the resized picture to see it full size. The tiny pictures the forum allows for upload really are archaic at this point and pretty useless for seeing details of the bow in. Technology has moved very far along from a 640x480 image being considered 'large'. It is basically just a large thumbnail in today's world.
Mark
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Horn Bows / Re: Korean horn bow. while im waiting...
« Last post by Robert Pougnier on November 17, 2025, 07:36:07 pm »That looks fantastic!
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Bows / Re: HHB Pyramid/reflex design
« Last post by Robert Pougnier on November 17, 2025, 07:31:51 pm »yep! Tips are 13mm, the rest of the bow is mostly about 7mm. It doesn't stack at all, very smooth!
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Bows / Re: Yew school
« Last post by Hamish on November 17, 2025, 07:12:34 pm » Tiller looks good so far. I normally compare the tiller with how the stave looks unbraced. Any major errors, like a hinge or weaker limb will show up in the set.
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Bows / Re: HHB Pyramid/reflex design
« Last post by Selfbowman on November 17, 2025, 07:12:30 pm »Ya when I put reflex mostly in the last 10 of the limb it requires more thickness toward the tips to hold the reflex. It also makes the need for either thicker limbs at fades to about ten inches out or parallel out 8-10. The bow probably does not stack at all. I like it.