Author Topic: Oh well, it's just a stick, right?  (Read 3418 times)

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Offline Hamish

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Re: Oh well, it's just a stick, right?
« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2016, 09:21:32 pm »
Hey Jep,  How heavy was your bow, and how wide were the limbs?
I have seen osage with these bruise like flaws, and I have made bows out of it up to 60lbs. They were at least 1.75" wide, and probably overbuilt in width.
That's a definite tension break at that flaw so I will now be leaving those areas a little wider.
Shame about the bow it, was looking real good.

Offline jeffp51

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Re: Oh well, it's just a stick, right?
« Reply #16 on: January 17, 2016, 09:26:44 pm »
I was pulling about 40 lbs at the time.  The limb was 1.75 at the fade and about 1.5" at mid limb --last ten inches tapering to .5"