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Cheers for the input gentleman, guess I'll start drawing up a grid :mrgreen: .... started scraping today and braced the bow to check progress, did a close inspection of both limbs and noticed this fret on the back of the bow :cry: it's on the left limb and just about smack bang in the center of the ...

Dennis, Cheers for taking the time to analyze my bow :biggrin: ...I see what you mean about the right hand limb, ill do some careful scraping tomorrow in the area suggested and see how she goes...as for the stiff handle section, I wanted the handle to be ridgid in this one but I can see how there is...

Here she is at 18".....im estimating it's about 30#, the cracks got slightly longer even after I superglued her but dam does this thing spit an arrow fast for its low weight and short draw length. I'd think its because the bow itself weighs nothing

....whoa! That should be on display in a museum of fine art. Beautiful & exquisite work

Looks like a beauty....80-100 rings per inch! jeez that's dense, wouldn't want to try and chase a growth ring on that!, good thing it's yew and one aparantly doesn't need to follow a single ring for the back. Looking forward to seeing the end result

Heres how she's looking at a 5" brace height and @ 14" of draw, im planning to get a 20" draw out of her.....left limb has a slight hinge & its hard for me to tell whats going on with the right limb, seems to be flexing evenly :confused: 20140817_164621-1.jpg 20140817_164642-1.jpg

Hey Sabinus, cheers for the kind words :smile: .... I evened out the limbs a bit more (I think they're pretty even but its hard to judge because of that wiggle in the right limb). Made a new string to reduce the brace height and then spotted this 20140817_134325-1-1-1-1-1-1.jpg A 3" long crack ...

After a few more hours scraping away I made a string and braced her, here is what she looks like (brace height should be a little lower in my opinion)

Wow....all that came to mind when looking at the ones that Dennis posted was......"Thunderbirds are go"

Here's the tiller so far, the right limb reflexed slightly after I split the stave it's also got a nice wonk in it which will make tillering alot harder, any advice on how to tiller would be much appreciated. Cheers gents

http://medicinebowwoods.com .... blokes name is Dave, he also sells yew staves on ebay under the name burl.quilt
Did you suffer any injuries when she let go?

......my goodness.....that is the most beautiful & stunning handle I've ever layd eyes on, truly the work of a master craftsman!

24" of reflex

My misses brought me a draw knife for my birthday :mrgreen: jeez I love her to bits! She's the best and ever so thoughtful. So I put it to work today, having never used one before I'm quite suprised at how quickly it removes material! 20140721_154323-1.jpg I worked out how to hold the stave securely...

It's time to start another bow (a short bow ofcourse) so I've picked the oldest stave I have. It's osage, measures 48 1/4" in length & a fraction under 2" wide for its entire length, a little bit snakey with a few pin knots that I can see. It was cut on the 19/12/2012 so it should be n...

Excellent looking bow!, looks HUGE compared to my longest bow (53"tip to tip), should post up some more detailed pics of the tips

love them PVC bows!. Did you use schedule 40 PVC? It has a wall thickness of about 5mm & I've heard it works quite well

Cheers for the advice and info gentleman, I guess you can't believe everything you read on the interweb .... when I first drew the bow with the fast flight on her I was holding my breath waiting for the batman style 'KAPOW!' when I got to full draw

Love the look of it Tom, I agree with you that red oak looks best unstained. How long were you in masters for to find a perfect board like that? :lol: ....Is that just a 3/4" board with a width taper & no thickness taper :confused: if it is what are the dimensions?....I agree with Jeff that...

Does anybody know if selfbows are viable candidates for the use of fast flight strings?. I strung & shot my osage selfbow yesterday with a FF string & it was shooting a treat!, but I've heard before that if the bow isn't rated to use FF she may go kapow!. How do I know wether or not she can ...

Definitely be keen to see the build along

I got one of these bad boys in the shed, does the job if you're cutting say 1/4" thick material, I've ripped some 3/4" red oak with it and it's so so, you need to go REALLY slow and can't put to much pressure on the blade or else twang!

Two thumbs up from me, bow strings just arrived then fast and friendly service, excellent commuication & a very well made product cheers again Mark


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But without a doubt Daryl you've learned to use it with a fine touch & an exceptional degree of accuracy....I use an angle grinder with a 40 grit flappy paddle sanding disc! ...you may call me crazy, but you'd only be stating the truth

I can definitely vouch for using dry heat on air dried staves, never fancied the thought of using steam though...wouldn't it up the moisture content in the wood? And visa versa never fancied the idea of using dry heat on a 'brittle' kiln dried board. Would the steam help to rehydrate the kiln dried ...

Mick that's a ripper! Looks completely different from the last time I saw it, you definitely worked some magic on the retiller...sinew wraps you say....did you process some of those tendons or use artificial stuff? Lovin that stain and backing to, I bet she's fast to! Top job..... Ill start working ...

Forgot to put this lil zinger up aswell....Sinew backed osage, 45" tip to tip & 45# @ 19"

Hi Colin, I'd say to stick with the old red oak boards as from my experience they can take a fair bit of abuse! Plus you made that ace lil bow with the steamed tips so you'd already have a feel for what red oak can take. I made this lil red oak bow for a mate awhile ago I think she was 64" tip ...

Cheers mick

How's that second yew, hickory & bamboo beauty coming along mate?

Perry, Those 2 Brigalow selfbows are beauties! I'm especially lovin that wider flatbow have you got any more detailed pics of it? Possibly a full draw shot would be ace to. What's brigalow like to work with? Jeff, It's always nice to hear about a bow that has a story behind it, does it have some kin...