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Marc St Louis
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Lenape Bow
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October 31, 2014, 11:34:09 am »
A guy recently asked me to make him a bow that would have been used by the natives of his area, he requested that I use Elm. There were a few NDN that inhabited his area, I chose to make him a Delaware replica. I found an Elm stave I had cut probably some 20 years ago tucked away in the attic of my house, it came from a small diameter tree. It had dried with quite a bit of reflex, which amounted to about 3" by the time I cut it down to length. I figured that with his 29.5" draw I would need to make the bow a bit longer than the museum bow I was copying, I chose 65". After roughing it out and floor tillering I did a bit of heat-treating. It had enough reflex so I didn't bother adding any but by the time I straightened the one end to match the other, it had some deflex near one end, it ended up with about 5". I could tell from tillering that this wood was good, it hardly lost any reflex and ended up keeping nearly 2" by the time I finished the bow. The bow is 65" long and just over 1 1/4" wide with a finished draw weight of just under 50# @ his draw length. He also wanted some target arrows, a couple stone tipped arrows and a quiver. I have the bow drawn to 30" in the full draw Here's a few pics
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Home of heat-treating, Corbeil, On. Canada
Marc@Ironwoodbowyer.com
George Tsoukalas
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October 31, 2014, 12:11:53 pm »
Came out great, Marc! Jawge
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chuckduster01
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Re: Lenape Bow
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October 31, 2014, 12:47:27 pm »
Simply elegant and elegant in it's simplicity. Thank you for sharing as I am working very hard to take the "complexity" out of my bows. Fighting my brain is an uphill battle on that subject I spose.
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Drewster
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October 31, 2014, 12:55:29 pm »
Your customer should be delighted with this bow Marc. Very nicely done.....highly effective simplicity.
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Eddie Parker
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October 31, 2014, 01:09:27 pm »
Looks real good, Marc. It should sling an arrow or two.
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Ken S
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October 31, 2014, 01:11:00 pm »
that is a very nice set he should be glad to have it.
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wizardgoat
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October 31, 2014, 01:12:47 pm »
Nice and simple. Cool
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Marc St Louis
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October 31, 2014, 02:43:18 pm »
Thanks guys
I don't have a 30" draw but it shoot quite well at my draw length. There's no finish on the bow as he wants to do some artwork on it
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Hrothgar
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October 31, 2014, 03:31:19 pm »
Nice looking bow Marc, excellent tiller.
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Chadwick
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October 31, 2014, 04:28:15 pm »
I love the bend. Is the full-draw picture from before you tapered the nock tips?
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Arrowind
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October 31, 2014, 05:38:03 pm »
NICE!
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bushboy
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October 31, 2014, 06:28:37 pm »
Looks great!gotta love elm!
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Marc St Louis
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October 31, 2014, 07:04:06 pm »
Thanks guys
The full draw was before I finished the nocks
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rossfactor
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Re: Lenape Bow
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November 01, 2014, 02:30:29 am »
Pretty amazing how much reflex that bow retained, for a long draw like that. Bet she really zips an arrow. Have you ever noticed a difference between reflex induced with heat and reflex picked up in the drying process?
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Del the cat
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November 01, 2014, 08:20:13 am »
Woo, great tiller.
I'd like to know how far that would throw a 30" flight arrow!
Del
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