I achieved my goal! 10gpi and over 180 at 28".
184,182,181. I need an honest shooting machine though. I draw 27 so I have to mark an arrow with a sharpie and try for that extra inch. Not alway repeatable trying to watch the mark on the riser and not hit my chrono.

Quote from: Appalachian Hillbilly on July 10, 2022, 07:23:57 PM
I achieved my goal! 10gpi and over 180 at 28".
184,182,181. I need an honest shooting machine though. I draw 27 so I have to mark an arrow with a sharpie and try for that extra inch. Not alway repeatable trying to watch the mark on the riser and not hit my chrono.

Low stretch or B50/B55?

Low stretch X99

Those are good numbers...  Congrats...

The limb bends look better in the second full draw pic you posted

Crazy ideas are the seeds of invention.

Got my bow ready for clear coat and cut my wood for my next riser. Black Limba and Wenge.

Going to try my first I beam using the wenge.
Got some nice canary wood for the limb veneers.

It's been reallyyyyyyy hot the past few weeks, heat advisory's some days, with the humidity feels like temp have been 106* and so forth

It has been here as well. I bought one of those spot coolers for the shop. Makes it a little better!

Eeeek!! That sounds nasty. My father-in-law lives in Phoenix, says it's been over 100* just about every day since May

We've been having hot, humid weather here as well, in the 90's. Not as hot as many but hot for our elevation of 2600'. At least we've been having evening showers which can drop the temps by 20 deg in less than a half hour.

Ken don't try to reinvent the wheel, act on experienced sound advice, different Bow designs have been around for thousands of years with all kinds of materials, I think Shredd and others myself included have all been there and don't want you wasting time money and material on things we have tried and pretty much know are not worth while, but  I guess you'll have to find out for yourself like the rest of us

91* here today  -- heat index of 106...  First time I stopped for a spell and went inside to cool off for a few minutes...  After that the breeze picked up, sun went down a little and the rest of the day wasn't too bad...

Quote from: Mark R on July 12, 2022, 01:19:35 PM
Ken don't try to reinvent the wheel, act on experienced sound advice, different Bow designs have been around for thousands of years with all kinds of materials, I think Shredd and others myself included have all been there and don't want you wasting time money and material on things we have tried and pretty much know are not worth while, but  I guess you'll have to find out for yourself like the rest of us

  Mark, let him roll... I think I got a change of heart on this...  I may have learned something new...  Something I wondered about... The speed is good... (yah got lucky)     What I do question is such a short working area, and will it fatigue and fail over time... 

  I am planning to make it up there (NC) at the end of summer to look for property and do some shop talk wit da Hillbilly...  Maybe bring my ratchet tree for some dfc's & my shoot machine to keep it honest...   

Would love to have you or anyone! Love talking shop . Yea it is hard to draw an arrow while looking at a mark on it and trying to hit your target and miss your chrono.

My next set of limbs will have much thinner wedges to try to get a little longer working section.

I shot it a bunch today and I need to check draw weight again. Either I have gotten weak or it is heavier than I think. Although I have not shot hardly any in a month....

Going to the shop tomorrow evening,  I will put a ruler on the draw board and take pics every couple inches.

Honestly,  it could blow up tomorrow and time will tell.

One departure on this over my other limbs was this is 40 thou glass instead of 50. I was out of 50 and took a guess on stack to adjust

.040 glass is all you need unless your building a really heavy bow.

Cut some Canary Wood limb lams. Pictures don't realy show how colorful these are! Deep and bright  yellow and reds in person. Can't wait to see what they look like under glass.

I used some Canary wood before, the Orange really sets it off.
I'll post pictures later today

I looked up its specs and it is close to hard maple. A little harder. I have some action boo from Big Jim's that is supposed to be here tomorrow. Going to use that as the core.

Did some Chronoing today.

2 Sets of ILF Recurve Limbs. 19" Riser - medium Limbs - 62" bow - 333gn Arrow 28-29ish draw.
Carbon/Bamboo MK-Archery with 37,5#@28" 195-200fps
Glas/Foam Bosen-Bows with 40#@28" 180-185fps

And my bow-building-kit-recurve-prototype...
60" bow 27,5#@28", 29#@29" also drawn 28-29"ish.

300gn Arrow - 180fps
230gn Arrow - 200+fps

Funny Little bow.
Prototype is build with no Taper.
Design was with Taper - so i need to build one more with Taper, to see If it will perform better with.

My buddy and I drove down to my sisters house to pick up some tamarack logs that have been sitting in her driveway for some time. Lucky for us, my brother in law was home and we used his forklift to load them onto the trailer.
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These are from one tree that was slowly dying. The larger one is 19" in diameter.
Nice for a tamarack. I can't wait to get it on the saw and see what's inside... 🙂
I wonder if it's any good for bows.
Dave.