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flinttim


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Just got this off the tiller tree. Once I finish sanding it should be 50#DSCF0423.jpg

Osage slat with bamboo back. The accent wood is ? I forgot. Padauk maybe ? I'll use the same on the tip overlays. I done this different than the Torges video.Rather than bending the reflex / deflex  in a clamp jig, I heat bended the r/d into the slat and then glues the bamboo on with Urac. This will be my first (for me personally, I made one for Cowles) with a cut in shelf .

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One more thing. When I got it done I measured for what length bowstring to make. 60". I dug thru my stuff and found a Nixe Flemish that I got on the trade blanket. --60" . Clean living boys.

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Make mine 66" please. 50 lbs will be fine!

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I want a copy of the "skinny" bow you have, while you are at it. Prettiest lines in a bow I have never seen... smile.gif

God bless,

José

-- Edited by jdemoya on Tuesday 9th of February 2010 06:20:04 PM

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Don't know which you mean Jose.

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That looks real good. Do you think there is a performance advantage to heat bending or did you just find it eaiser?

Giving Jim a  BBO is like giving a Winchester to a Commanche. He might be unstoppable nowbiggrin 

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No , I meant the selfbow I made him had the shelf cut in. Cowles don't need something as nice as a BBO. Performance - wise, can't say just yet. When you bend one via the clamp and jig method, you are preloading the osage slat and using the bamboo to keep it that way. Heat bending does load up some stress in the wood but nearly as much. The fiberglass bowyer uses his forms to create the shape of the bow and the glue and fiberglass makes it hold that shape. This way is sort of like that.. I did shoot some arrows out of it right off the tree and it seems plenty spunky.
The clamp and jig method us actually easier. I spent about 2 hours bending with heat and had to be sure to do it so all the curves were consistent. But I do believe the glue line is much stronger this way.

-- Edited by flinttim on Tuesday 9th of February 2010 07:36:31 PM

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I really do think I should "performance test" it for you if you have it done by the next shoot (and if the drifts that have me snowed in are gone by then)

-- Edited by john nail on Tuesday 9th of February 2010 07:58:54 PM

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I can't remember if you had it at a club shoot or it was the bow you took to the Big South Fork pig hunt few years back. It is very slim, maybe no more than 1" wide at the fades. I have only seen it once, but I remember its graceful/slender lines like a cheetah or a ballerina. Simple and elegant.

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Must be my first Bamboo/osage bow. Deep cored bow. You are right, very elegant profile. This one should be very similar. Osage is one of the few woods (yew another) that you can deep core and get away with it. Most other woods will fret.
That bow is really your standard Torges type bow.

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Fine John but I will supply the arrows.

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flinttim wrote:

Fine John but I will supply the arrows.





"fraid of my Gorilla draw?

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That's an interesting development. A shelf?

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Tim, I see glue-ups like that floor tillered, going for $250 on ebay. You might consider doing a few for retirement.

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John, correct me if I'm wrong, but are you saying that all those E-bay bows have shelves cut in them?

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Dennis, I knew you were about out of excuses so the shelf gives you a new one.

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Naa, just wondering what advantages or disadvantages you considered when you decided to add a shelf. Well I guess you actually subtract a shelf. Or maybe you do add a shelf. See I don't know. These are the kind of things I was wondering.

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Dennis, it keeps you from having to wear a glove in summer

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John, I kinda like wearin a glove. Tonight was our last Bass Pro shoot. I let Billy try my bow and arrows. He don't have a glove. He layed the top of his hand openbiggrin Looked like someone gutted a fishbiggrin I like my glovewink

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he was "quilled" to shoot it.....sorry, couldn't help it.

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Bet he don't do that again.

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If he ever builds a selfbow I'll bet it has a shelfhmm

There was a guy that came to the Bass Pro last night that is Tim Baker's cousin. He's a bowyer. He said he will come up to the club.

Billy's gonna be alright. He's tuff.



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Dennis and his one glove kinda reminds me of Michael Jackson. no

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Guys, I am with Dennis in this one. I always wear a glove, like MJ, even in summer and even I do not shoot off my hand. It is to keep things the same: in the fall when I do have to wear a glove because it is cold, the glove does not feel foreign to my hand.

See Dennis we have few things in common besides our names: my middle name is Dennis too! I also hope that the similarities stop right there... smile.gif

God bless,

José

-- Edited by jdemoya on Friday 12th of February 2010 09:01:14 AM

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jdemoya wrote:

Guys, I am with Dennis in this one. I always wear a glove, like MJ, even in summer and even I do not shoot off my hand. It is to keep things the same: in the fall when I do have to wear a glove because it is cold, the glove does not feel foreign to my hand.

See Dennis we have few things in common besides our names: my middle name is Dennis too! I also hope that the similarities stop right there... smile.gif

God bless,

José

-- Edited by jdemoya on Friday 12th of February 2010 09:01:14 AM





That's a relief, I thought you were going to say you had Michael Jackson in common....

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Back when I started out, and not knowing much, I bought some arrows from a known company. 2nd arrow shot and a bunch of pain. One of the fletches was not glued down on the leading edge. At release, the quill dropped down and went right thru my knuckle. Had to pull it on thru with my Leatherman. Bled like a stuck hog. There's a picture in Traditional Bowyers Bible 4 of what that looks like. Not good.

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The glove I wear, batting glove, might not be much protection against that. I have been thinking about getting me a kevlar glove. Will that be good protection against a broken arrow?

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blaa blaa blaa !!! who needs a glove ?
i shot with a good surgeon.......biggrin

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John, I've got one of them little bity Louisville Sluggers that I'll put in my quiver. That way I can be the anesthesiologistevileye

Jose, I've seen the kevlar gloves in the McMaster-Carr catalog but never in person. The best ones I've found are the rock climbing gloves at Quest outdoors. They have both warm and cold weather styles. I don't know if they would protect against a broken arrow. Or a bow that catastrophically fails right where the shelf has been cutashamedcrybiggrin It's also funny watching the yuppie sales people when an older fat boy starts trying on rock climbin glovesbiggrin

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Are you putting down those of us who are "Horizontally challenged?"

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