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by deldridg
Mon Jul 18, 2016 2:43 pm
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: Making father and son wood recurve bows
Replies: 7
Views: 3199

Re: Making father and son wood recurve bows

Many thanks Grahame and Hunterguy, as recommended, I will start with a bow for myself as I stopped growing about... um about 30 years ago. After that will get young Will to help me make one for his little frame. Have just ordered "The Design and Construction of Composite Recurve Bows" by J...
by deldridg
Sun Jul 17, 2016 7:30 pm
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: Making father and son wood recurve bows
Replies: 7
Views: 3199

Re: Making father and son wood recurve bows

Many thanks Bob and Colin. I will certainly follow up. I've done a lot of reading online and as usual, often come across contradictory information and most wood-specific info relates more to the US than here. What I've not really come across is info related to scaling. If I were to, say make a bow t...
by deldridg
Sun Jul 17, 2016 9:26 am
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: Making father and son wood recurve bows
Replies: 7
Views: 3199

Making father and son wood recurve bows

Hello all and cheers from Sydney, this is my first post here and I must say it's great to see so many folk hand-crafting such beautiful things out of wood. Great to see these skills being maintained. When our little boy was about 3, my wife made him a tiny "bow and arrow" set out of a few ...