OK, as my start as an new member at this forum, I want to show you the last bow I made.
I finished it last summer (well, I was starting the summer before - I'm sometimes a slow bowyer).
It is a nearly "Angular Bow", similar to the egyptian design.
Bamboo-actionwood backed with bamboo (= BBB?).
As the result of a failure with an BBB-
Longbow I had two, more or less tillered but now relatively short, limbs from bamboo-actionwood and a bamboo-backing. After this stuff reproach me my mistake for more than one year (I swear this limbs were looking angry to me) I decided to make another try.
I made a deflex splice in the handle and glued the limbs with 6'' (15cm) reflex.
Then I added black locust and maple for the handle and black locust for the tips.
The Tillering was a little tricky because of the narrow limbs but I think it is OK so far.
After the first arrows there was a little crack at one node of the bamboo-backing, so I decided to patch and wrap them all. It looks not so bad, I think.
The reflex went down to 2 3/4'' (7cm) after the tillering and the first shootings. But now it is constant.
I hope you like this bow …
Length NtN 57'' (145cm)
45lb / 27''
Width at Fade Outs 1 1/8''
(argh, is this right? I hate this "inch-thing") (28mm)
Width at the tips 15/32'' (12mm)
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