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Offline blackpanem

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beach bow?
« on: April 02, 2012, 05:42:13 pm »
how well does beach work for a bow? i have a bunch of straight 20-30 foot tall beachs that i can get easily
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Offline Pat B

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Re: beach bow?
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2012, 05:44:16 pm »
Beech should work fine for a bow.
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Offline blackpanem

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Re: beach bow?
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2012, 05:44:57 pm »
ok thanks ;D
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: beach bow?
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2012, 06:03:56 pm »
I remember that movie...Beech Bow Bingo with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.

Post pics of the build, you know we all wanna see!
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Offline RobWiden

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Re: beach bow?
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2012, 06:06:06 pm »
    I've made a couple of hickory backed beech flatbows that turned out pretty well. I glued in some reflex and they kept almost all of it. I don't know if it was just me or the wood but the one unbacked one I made broke. (Board bow.)
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Offline danny f

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Re: beach bow?
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2012, 06:06:55 pm »
i got told not to use beech for bows, i always see plenty of nice straight beech in the woods but leave it there. i think i will have to go and do some cutting now if it is suitable after all.
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Offline RobWiden

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Re: beach bow?
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2012, 06:08:11 pm »
    Wow, JW, you must be almost as old as I am.
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: beach bow?
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2012, 06:09:24 pm »
I'm old enough to know that the father of David Crosby (Crosby Stills & Nash) worked on the film. 
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Offline DarkSoul

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Re: beach bow?
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2012, 07:41:53 pm »
A beach is a sandy strip at the sea side.
A beech is a tree in the Fagus genus.
;)

What species of beech are we talking about? I dislike the European Fagus sylvatica for bows...not many good bows made from it. The American species might be a different story.
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Offline Dauntless

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Re: beach bow?
« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2012, 10:06:00 pm »
Isn't it supposed to have shorter fibres?  Anyways if people managed to make holmegaards backwards (check the TBB2 chapter on ancient European bows: raised handles and tillering on the back!) then a conventional beech bow should work just fine.
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