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Offline Stoker

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Chokecherry Help
« on: March 16, 2010, 08:02:46 pm »
Got this chokecherry sapling.Coming along not to bad.Not real sure next step.
The Back
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Offline Stoker

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Re: Chokecherry Help
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2010, 08:12:22 pm »
Strung at brace 6"   Tillering board @ 18"  side shot
It's 64" n/n  1 3/8 wide at fades to 1" 12" from nock
At 18" draw its pulling around 30lbs.
I'm thinking midlimb needs a little more bend.I know it needs more work i'm only half way there.Could use some direction
Thanks for looking
Leroy

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Offline loefflerchuck

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Re: Chokecherry Help
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2010, 01:00:15 am »
More bend in the tips. Add sinew and shorten it and it wil last 20+years
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Offline zenmonkeyman

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Re: Chokecherry Help
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2010, 02:57:09 am »
Awesome!  Been waiting for your chokecherry to show up here.  Looks like a little more bend at the fade on the right, then from midlimb out to the tips on both limbs.  Looks a bit hingey closer in.  After my experiences with CC I'd clamp it straight, heat treat the belly, and rawhide the back before doing anything else.  Lookin good!  Can't wait to see more.

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Re: Chokecherry Help
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2010, 10:35:12 am »
I was thinking about backing it. Not sure about shortening it right now but you never know.
Mid limb to tips will have to bend more.Thanks loefflerchuck and Garett
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Offline bambule

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Re: Chokecherry Help
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2010, 05:03:02 pm »
leave it as long as it is and back it with rawhide. Maybe heattreating before works - for me dry heat and cherry doesn't work - the cherry pops along the grain.
But maybe for you it will work.
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Re: Chokecherry Help
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2010, 10:30:00 am »
Thanks bambule. I'm not real big on using dry heat. Haven't had good luck with it.
Gotto find my rawhide and back her.
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: Chokecherry Help
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2010, 12:43:38 pm »
I think you need to make sure the bow is beginning to bend at the end of the fades.  Looks a little stiff there. I mark a dark pencil line there and keep working there until the bending starts right there. As for mid limb on. Looks like you hav e anatural reflex there. Just be sure that area is bending. Personally, I like the reflexed ends to shot at full draw becasue I oike smooth drawing bows and thats one way of getting that characteristic. Jawge
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Re: Chokecherry Help
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2010, 10:24:02 am »
Thanks George
Leroy
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