80" White Elm Warbow Build-along

[adb]

I'm guessing that's the bottom nock? That looks great! Your horn to limb transition looks very smooth. Well done Grasshoppa! I'm glad to see you getting this bow done, so we can go shoot it soon. Too bad the weather's gone to shite, but next weekend is shaping up to be decent.

[Cameroo]

Unfortunately I still haven't been able to give this girl her field trial, hopefully I'll be able to get out with it sometime this week.

I put it on the tiller tree today, and plotted a force-draw graph.  It gave a pretty consistent 5lbs/inch of draw length, right up until the last inch of draw, where it started to stack.  I can't wait to see what she can do.




Here's a picture of the needle on the scale wrapping around back to zero



And the final full draw tiller (115lbs@32"):


I'll post a few glamor shots once the last coat of finish dries.

P.S. - I also discovered a new favorite bow-making beverage... seems appropriate 

[criveraville]

Great thread! Beautiful bow amigo!!

[WillS]

Great work dude, sensational tiller shape.  Can't believe you've only just discovered Strongbow.  They serve it extra cold in the pubs here.  Nothing better!

[Badger]

  Ditto what Wills said. I love the tiller shape. I would expect you will come very close to 300 yards with the livery arrow(750 grains approx??)

[toomanyknots]

Awesome bow!
Awesome beer!

Awesome all around!!! 

Very nice tiller, perfect!

[Ian.]

  Ditto what Wills said. I love the tiller shape. I would expect you will come very close to 300 yards with the livery arrow(750 grains approx??)

That's awfully ambitious, I would expect more like 230. The FD curve may suggest less.

Lovely tiller shape. Do keep us updated!

[Cameroo]

Thanks guys!

That's awfully ambitious, I would expect more like 230. The FD curve may suggest less.

That's kinda what I was thinking - around 230, and that's assuming I can yank it back the entire 32 inches!  Also, I think livery arrows are closer to 1000 grains, aren't they? 

Anyway, I'll be sure to update with it's performance as soon as I can. Who knows, maybe it will surprise us? I have a laser range finder so I'll be able to measure the distance quite precisely.  All of my arrows are around 80 grams (around 1200 grains), so hopefully I can get Adam out with me and use some of his lighter ones.

[Badger]

  I was thinking of the lighter around 750 grain arrow, not sure what they call that one. 230 with the 1,000 grain arrow would be a good shot.

[dmc]

Very nice Cam! Looking forward to seeing it next month. Way to go!!

[Ian.]

The Standard arrow is 800 grain (52 gram). Though even then based on the bow I wouldn't expect it go go massively more than the bigger arrow. Just the limb speed of these bows means most arrows unless in the extremes will go near enough the same distance. My guess 240-50 would be a good shot with a Standard arrow out of this bow.

[Marc St Louis]

Looks really good.  I didn't see a picture of the bow unbraced.  Did the bow take uniform set?

[Del the cat]

nice pics, great tiller and FD curve.
Del
That scale shows zero at 31".. is that some sort of let off like a compound? 

[Cameroo]

That scale shows zero at 31".. is that some sort of let off like a compound? 

Yup, it's a new cam development, with 100% let-off 

Here's an unbraced profile Marc.  The lower limb appears to have a little more set in the outer limb, but it's hard to say if it took even set, since there were a few tip alignment corrections during the tillering, and some mild reflex would have been added to portions of the limbs in the process.

I wiped on some stain (actually, it is an antique gel made for leather) to the belly before applying the finish, because I wanted the grain to "pop" a little bit more, and it also gave it a two-tone effect (wannabe-yew )

[WillS]

Beautiful Cam.  Real nice job!