2017 Bow Swap

[KellyG]

Post pics and updates. Ask question and fish for what folks like. Don't post who you are building for.

Also let me know if you have built for the person in the past I will swap you out.

Let me know before you ship if it is to a new person. Unless you know they have shipped already.

Have fun let the fun begin.

[breazyears]

I have a name... he he he.

[Mo_coon-catcher]

Time for some fun to start!  
Quick poll to see if my guy replies. Anyone have any objections if I make an English war bow? I'm going to be using persimmon to make an English long bow. But my staves are long enough at ~83" that I should be able to push to some pretty good weight if the wood will let me. I feel this should be a good design for such a hard compression strong wood. Plus I've been on a kick of wanting to make war bows lately.
So I'll make either a 100# warbow or an ELB of my guys preferred weight.

Kyle

[passion for knowledge]

My heaviest bow is #60.

After about 5 dozen arrows, I'd done.

The thought of pulling #100 is kinda scary.

The thing about war bows is that they were salvo weapons. A thousand archers could put 12,000 arrows a minute into the air. Accuracy was not an issue.

A completely different game to what I think most archers are doing these days.

[Krasus]

Gueezz I think that would break my arms

[Krasus]

Started playing with some spliced lams.

Black Walnut spliced to the paduk, with rock maple and african ebony then rock maple again in the splice as a detail.

Thoughts?

[Trenton G.]

I love reading the bow swap threads. It's awesome to see what you guys can come up with!

[mikkekeswick]

Krasus if you make the splice more angled it makes the lams a good bit stronger and less 'temprimental' when plastered with epoxy at glue-up! Good combo though I've used it myself a few times.

[BenBow]

I've had horrible luck using paduk in limbs. It must have a lot of oil in it that causes the glue joint to seperate. Be careful!

[Dan Landis]

Having some shoulder issues lately, 100# is way too much bow for me.

Krasus, I like the wood combo, they look good together.

[breazyears]

I usually shoot 150#... its not easy being me. lol

[John Scifres]

I'd have to cut 100#er in half to be able to pull it.

[Krasus]

Thanks for the input about increasing the length of the taper on the limb splice Rob, and Galen thanks for the heads up on the oil in the paduk.  Much appreciated!

[mwosborn]

Originally posted by John Scifres:
I'd have to cut 100#er in half to be able to pull it.

Me too!

[breazyears]

I couldn't handle a war bow.

[Mo_coon-catcher]

It sounds like so far it's unanimous, making the warbow is a no go. But it'll probably be a couple weeks until I get started. I've got one more bow to get done first. Though I may go ahead and rough it out when the other bow is on the form cooling from a heat treat.

Krasus- that's gonna look real neat with it spliced like that.

Kyle

[Dan Landis]

Going to try a hickory backed tri-lam for my trade bow.  Got the hickory cut, core lams of hackberry tapered, and the osage belly lams cut.  Hope to have it glued up in the next week or so.  My smooth on supply is getting low, might need to order more before I can get started.  Also need to splice my lams and get a handle block cut out.

[KellyG]

Well sounds like some very nice bow in the wood works.


Dan I bet that combo will turnout one of the best bows ever. Osage belly, hackberry is so light and makes a good bow in its owe right. Then adds some hickory. I bet you get a narrow and light son of a bow.

[Dan Landis]

Kelly, we shall see.  I plan to do a light heat treat to the hackberry lams to help with the performance.

I reworked my form to do a straight limbed bow, with 2-3" of reflex in the outer half of the limbs.

[breazyears]

well I got started on my guys bow today.
im going to have some spare time for the next couple of weeks, so my guy may get an early package in the mail.