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Thanks Daryl, loved the video.

Great advice on how to work around the knots!
Also good how important it is for the grain to be straight!

Thanks, Miles

Excellent, thanks very much Daryl.

A very interesting read.

Thanks, Miles

Cheers Colin!

Thanks heaps Colin!

Great help! Did you need to season it in any special conditions?

Thanks, Miles

Thank you very much Daryl, That has helped a lot. Since I won't be at my friends house for a while (the one with all the blackwoods) I think I will have a crack with this one and try my best to work around the knots, and the discrepancies. Excuse my ignorance, but what is a milled board, does it act...

Unfortunately, no haven't started it yet, been really busy with school.

But here is the stave and end.

Thanks

I had to split the photo of the stave because it was too big.

Great, thanks for all the help Daryl! Ill give it a shot and see what happens! I'll try to work around the knots.

Thanks, Miles

Thinning the handle back to belly will help. You will probably notice at about 24" in to the draw the limb to string angle will be about 90 degrees at which point stacking can stacking can occur. Is this when its very hard to pull back? To get a better understanding of the blackwood did it die ...

Yeah, I have access to more Blackwood, so I think I will have a practise on this stave and see how it goes!

I might continue with the 58 inch stave, since I have it. So should I make more of a Flatbow? And should the handle thin out, so it can bend?

Thanks for all the help Daryl

Miles

Cheers Colin.

The stave is 58 inches x 2 inches x 1 inch. My draw length is 29 inches. I'm hopping to get around 40 lbs +...

I experimented with a couple off cuts and it is pretty flexible once very thin. If tapered correctly I'm sure it will work alright.

Thanks again for the help Daryl!

Cheers! Thanks so much for the help Colin!

Yeah that would be great thanks Colin!

Thanks very much Daryl and Colin! Any dimensions I should follow? Do any of you have a link to a thread about self bows?

Thanks, Miles

Found an a dead Tassie Blackwood tree at a friends house, we chopped it down and got a stave out of the centre of the tree. The stave has a few small knots in it, but the general grain direction is good. Do you think its a good material to make a self bow from? Should it be reinforced with something...