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Title: 50" Board Bow Drawlenght?
Post by: SveinD on April 28, 2010, 05:49:00 PM
What ere your recommandations for max drawlength on an ash board bow? Pyramid cut..
Do you need other details? Grain is straight and fine.. looking at 25# tops  :)
Title: Re: 50" Board Bow Drawlenght?
Post by: John Scifres on April 28, 2010, 08:02:00 PM
I wouldn't go over 24" even with a bendy handle.  For a rigid handle I wouldn't do more than 22".  But I hate stack and pinchy draws.  I remember a 48" hickory, rigid handle bow drawn to 27" that Mickey Lotz' Bro Randy made and it lived.  He had to have tip over lays to hold the string on.