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Offline Shooter

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Fun With Flamboo (not for BoM)
« on: September 20, 2010, 08:23:30 pm »
I've been building with bamboo flooring for a few years now and thought I'd show a few I've built over the last couple of weeks.

The R/Ds both have tempered lam-boo bellies.

The shorter one has a maple riser, canary core and hickory back with rawhide. It's 60.5" o/a and 59 ntn. It draws 55#@28". I left the rawhide natural because the guy I built it for didn't want any dark colors. It's got a very smooth draw, nice and quiet, and is one of the faster bows I've built.

The longer one has a canary riser with purpleheart core and hickory back with rawhide I dyed to kinda match the canary. It's 63.75" o/a and 62.75" ntn. It draws 60#@28. Quiet, smooth and no stack even out to 29". Fast and accurate to boot.

Both bows took about 1/2 inch of set and about as much string follow. They come back within a couple of minutes after they're unstrung. That's my son in the full draw pics

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Offline n2huntn

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Re: Fun With Flamboo (not for BoM)
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2010, 08:29:01 pm »
looks good, cant wait for the full draw shots.
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Re: Fun With Flamboo (not for BoM)
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2010, 08:37:00 pm »
more pics

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« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2010, 08:43:57 pm »
risers

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« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2010, 08:48:29 pm »
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« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2010, 08:55:41 pm »
55#@28

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« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2010, 08:56:16 pm »
60#@28

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« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2010, 09:12:31 pm »
Here's a lam-boo backed canary D-section longbow. I've been backing my longbows with bamboo flooring for a while now and haven't had any problems with it. Canary is my wood of choice but I've used lam-boo to back hickory, cherry and ash as well.

I had this one finished when I decided to draw it past 30". Stupid move. I chrysaled one of the side-knots on the lower limb and had to patch it. I saw another grain variation a couple of inches further up the limb that was suspect. Canary has some very tight figuring and I wasn't sure if it was that or another chrysal. I couldn't feel any ridge, though, but decided to play it safe and patched that as well. It still shoots great. I lashed some red and black cotton over the patches and matched it on the top limb. I used purpleheart for the overlays and cotton handle sealed in Gorrila wood glue. Teak & tung oil finish.

69.75" o/a 
67.25" ntn. 55#@30"

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« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2010, 09:23:20 pm »
I don't know why the full draw pics show the limbs all distorted like that. When I open the pics in another window they look proper ???
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Re: Fun With Flamboo (not for BoM)
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2010, 11:15:44 pm »
Thems some fine lookin bows there sir.Very good job and i bet they shoot hard too!!Good Job!!
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Re: Fun With Flamboo (not for BoM)
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2010, 11:47:03 pm »
full draws look fine to me , great work nice to see something different
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« Reply #11 on: September 21, 2010, 01:52:39 am »
Thanks, Ken. Glad you liked em.

Thwackaddict, the 60 lb R/D is a very hard hitter indeed. It piled up the heads and flared the shafts on several of my medium weight aluminarrows before I clued in.

n2, hope the full draws didn't disappoint

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Re: Fun With Flamboo (not for BoM)
« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2010, 02:14:10 am »
gives me a whole new respect for boo flooring!
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« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2010, 06:07:06 am »
I really like them,especially the last one. Nice work. :)
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Re: Fun With Flamboo (not for BoM)
« Reply #14 on: September 21, 2010, 08:57:22 am »
Really ;ike the longbow.  The patch job looks great.
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