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Offline Badger

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Re: This always puzzles me
« Reply #15 on: June 08, 2015, 09:27:21 am »
  I would definitely flip that inverted stave over, even slightly concave works better flipped. Concave is kind of a pain to work with.

Offline Mark Smeltzer

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Re: This always puzzles me
« Reply #16 on: June 11, 2015, 03:38:02 pm »
Isn't that the technique used by one of the modern bow builders .....kinda like a tape measure, the shape adds rigidity to it. I think the theory applied to bow making means Less material for the same draw wt., equals a faster bow. 
I think I would try it if the concave was fairy consistent down the bow.
 Just my two cents.

Mark

Offline joachimM

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Re: This always puzzles me
« Reply #17 on: June 11, 2015, 05:53:52 pm »
the shape adds rigidity to it.

Mark

It will indeed add rigidity. And it will increase the likelihood of a catastrophic bow explosion too  >:D

Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: This always puzzles me
« Reply #18 on: June 11, 2015, 10:01:07 pm »
I had that in a bow I recently finished and sent out to someone. It never occurred to me that it should be a point of concern when sending a bow out. It is just how that piece of wood was, and it was a nice piece of osage in every other way. I don't think it detracts from a bow in any way.
"The bow is the old first lyre,
the mono chord, the initial rune of fine art
The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and..." Maurice Thompso