I liked the natural (quilted) maple that Greg used in my trade bow- I gave this figured maple a try- not as nice as the trade bow maple but it will do. Riser is shedua with black and white glass accents- limbs are maple veneers over a bamboo core.
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yes please...
:drool:
-hov
Looks good Trux. Did you grind the veneers yourself?
Yea Jess, from some wood I picked up in Az. this spring.
Bow is looking great. What are the specs on that? Stack?
Looks good, Cant wait to see it finished..... :clapper:
Sorry to repost... whats the specs on the handle?.. LxWxH?
The stack is 380 with a wag on the weight. This one will be pretty skinny. The riser specs- 22"x1.5"x2 1/4"- the length fade to fade is the 22"s- the thickness will be around 1.25-1.3" when done
Lookin good Dave, what is ntn?
QuoteOriginally posted by kennym:
Lookin good Dave, what is ntn?
Thanks-it's 62" ntn- we'll see if the longer riser is a good replacement for the p-lams :rolleyes:
Should work! :thumbsup:
P-lams are probably cheaper tho... :D
I love those curves Trux, this should be a nice one. Can't wait to see the finished product you build some perty bows!
Thanks! Slowly making some progress on this one-my stack guess was a little heavy so some trapping and narrowing of the limbs is still needed- right now it is 63#s, but there is alot of sanding left so I should be able to reduce the weight some more. Here it is braced at a little over 6"s.
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Limbs pulling straight and draw to 28" to look at tiller.
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Here is where I'm at with this one-there is still plenty of sanding left before it gets some finish- it will end up 55#@28", 62"ntn- this one may turn into a two piece if I get ambitious or brave enough to cut it in half. Shot a few arrows with it and am liking how it performs.
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beautiful work trux
coming along very nicely...I like it:-)
Looks good! Did adding the longer riser change the performance?
Greg- It gains 2-3 lbs per inch until 30"s and then starts to stack-the other one had a couple more inches in it before it stacked. This one is super quiet and seems fast- I'll try and run some arrows through a chrono and see how it does compaired to the shorter riser with p-lams.This is drawn to approx. 30"s-
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Shot the bow this morning compaired to another bow off the same form with the shorter riser- both are 55#@28" with the same #strands of FF string- shooting the same arrow- 9gpi. Although the bows are not identical the green bow was one of the faster ones I had until now- the new bow was consistantly 5-6fps faster- of course I had to post the highest speed- :rolleyes:
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I like the new strung profile better and that is really good performance. Just curious, how fast does the swap bow shoot for you?
QuoteOriginally posted by GREG IN MALAD:
I like the new strung profile better and that is really good performance. Just curious, how fast does the swap bow shoot for you?
I like the profile too-it should be a good bow for a 27-29" draw length, I'll have my buddy shoot it this next weekend and see how it does at 27"s. I didn't test out the swap bow today but when I did it was shooting as fast +/-1 fps as the green bow which is 3lbs heavier-that is one of the reasons I copied some ideas from your bow :thumbsup: