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Offline tattoo dave

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Re: coconut bow---chrono update
« Reply #30 on: February 12, 2011, 04:29:57 pm »
Plenty fast enough to put some meat in the freezer ;)
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Offline Parnell

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Re: coconut bow---chrono update
« Reply #31 on: February 12, 2011, 07:06:24 pm »
And it's basically grass.
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Offline Bevan R.

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Re: coconut bow---chrono update
« Reply #32 on: February 12, 2011, 07:51:17 pm »
The bow looks great. Both cosmetically and form wise.
How was it to work? A friend of mine got some red palm and said you have to stabilize it or it will tear. You have any issues like that?

(I can already hear the comments comming about putting a stabilizer on a primitive bow :D)
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Offline dragonman

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Re: coconut bow---chrono update
« Reply #33 on: February 12, 2011, 08:08:38 pm »
Bevan, what do mean by 'stabilise', ? when I first bent it some of the dark fiibres pushed up , after sanding them down they didnt come back
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Offline Bevan R.

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Re: coconut bow---chrono update
« Reply #34 on: February 12, 2011, 08:16:09 pm »
In some woodworking projects, the subject wood will 'tear' easily. So a stabilizing agent of some kind (like an epoxy or other glue) is used to hold the fibers together and allow the woodworker to cut them without them tearing.
You run into this more in turning projects on a lathe.
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Offline eflanders

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Re: coconut bow---chrono update
« Reply #35 on: February 12, 2011, 10:30:45 pm »
That bow looks great as do the arrows!  If you were looking for a tad more speed without changing the tiller, you might try flame tempering the next bow you make like this...  Bamboo does some amazingly good things with heat, maybe the Palm will too?
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Offline Josh

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Re: coconut bow---chrono update
« Reply #36 on: February 21, 2011, 02:10:45 pm »
Cool bow didn't know you could use Coconut.  Bookmarked for Feb. Backed BOM contest as well.  :)
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