(http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee503/Jamey_Burkhart/178.jpg)
(http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee503/Jamey_Burkhart/179.jpg) (http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee503/Jamey_Burkhart/180.jpg) (http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee503/Jamey_Burkhart/181.jpg) I made these two bows from a board i got off a deck while remodeling a womans house. One of em is 50# and the other is around 65#. The small one is a lot more fun to shoot. The 50# is an inch wide out to midlimb and then tapers to 5/16 tips. I had to make them skinnier than i like due to layin em out around screw holes. But they turned out pretty good.
Who can pass up twins even if one is a little heaver than the other. :) they look great. What is Beefwood?
I think its a tropical wood kinda like ipe. It may be bloodwood. I dont really know.Its really dense wood though. It was so heavy I figured it would surely make a decent bow. Backed em just to be on the safe side.
well it seems to have worked. How may arrows you put thru em so far.
beef wood is actually bullet wood or bolivn redwood also goes by the name marsudda dunno if i spelled it right is hard as heck i think a bit harder than ipe it make s real fast bow brock
probably 200 on the small one and only 40-50 arrows onthe heavy one. They both have around an inch of set right after unstringing. I didnt glue in any reflex but probably should have. I just didnt know that much about the wood.
Well it looks great and if you have any more of it you can play around now you have a couple out of it.
The tiller looks perfect and the bows are sharp.
So are beefwood and bloodwood the same thing? Like i said i got it from a deck that the lady said she had built around 15 years ago. The wood was real gray from weathering i guess until i planed it down. Iwas kinda worried it wouldnt work being outside for that long.
QuoteOriginally posted by Roy from Pa:
The tiller looks perfect and the bows are sharp.
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oakie no there not the same thing it is relley massernduba i checked the spelling again and it is normally called brizlian redwood it is just a tad harder then ipe is i know it s hard as heck to cut on my table saw but this stuff makes smokin fast bows espically if ya get ur tip s down to like 1/4 blood wood isnt near as hard as this stuff is brock
Thanks Brock. I really was just wantin to call em bloodwood cause I thought it sounded cooler. The first bow i attempted with it exploded during tillering. I had a ten inch handle glued on it and i think the limbs were just too narrow for all that stress. These are the first bows I hasve made in this style(ELB,bendy handle). I thought tillering would be easier on this style but it really wasnt. They do shoot very hard though.
oakie the few i have made i made em the same as a ipe /boo bow i had no plms with it, im wanting to saw some thin lams and try making a r / d style out of it iv got a bunch of it man these boards are heavey so i am fixing to mess around with it a bit and see what can be done with it, and just exoermint a bit it s easey to find at local decking dealers but not cheap but from what im seeing so far it needs to be slender and thin just like ipe brock
I wish I had some more of it to play with. Might try to get some at the local lumberyard. Have to admit it really was hard to work though. I made a hickory backed purpleheart bow for my son and that is the only other wood I've worked with that compares to this stuff in hardness.