Latest D/R

[longbow steve]

100_2905.JPG (103.86 KiB) Viewed 5658 times

This is the latest, built by order for a Lady form Kuringai Bowmen
28lbs@28" 178fps 10gr/lb off the fingers .

[longbow steve]

100_2906.JPG (116.93 KiB) Viewed 5660 times

[longbow steve]

100_2909.JPG (78.86 KiB) Viewed 5656 times

100_2907.JPG (108.59 KiB) Viewed 5651 times

[longbow steve]

100_2911.JPG (39.95 KiB) Viewed 5633 times

100_2910.JPG (87.33 KiB) Viewed 5628 times

[pdccr]

Wow thats a nice bow, nice quiver aswell.

[longbow steve]

100_2915.JPG (74.42 KiB) Viewed 5606 times

100_2916.JPG (46.13 KiB) Viewed 5606 times

Thanks Pdccr, the quiver is made by Trevor Rosa of Sydney. Steve

[pdccr]

Whats it made from?

[longbow steve]

100_2928.JPG (140.65 KiB) Viewed 5584 times

Goat fur . Steve

[pdccr]

whats the bow made from?

[longbow steve]

Zebrano riser, Zebrano veneer and carbonised bamboo core(heat tempered). Steve

[stringnstik]

Real nice steve, another beauty. The lady will be well pleased Im sure.

[longbow steve]

Thanks Stringnstick, Yeah I hope she will like it. Steve

[Gringa Bows]

very nice as usual Steve...............Rod

[White Hawk]

Luv ya work Steve! That is a real nice timber in the riser, love the grain. You've got a real nice shape to the tips also. 178fps impressive mate bravo!

cheers

Gav

[Stickbow Hunter]

Bow shape is ugly as IMO mate - I know I know old school. Your craftsmanship looks great. The Zebra wood nearly always looks good. I'm sure the new owner will be very pleased indeed. Thanks for showing us.

Jeff

[longbow steve]

Thanks Rod
Thanks Gav
Hi Jeff, good to hear from you , The ugly bow shape lets her compete with those who can draw more weight. I am feeling pretty good about how the bows are coming along(workmanship wise) Thanks for your comments. Steve

[Stickbow Hunter]

I am feeling pretty good about how the bows are coming along(workmanship wise)

You should be mate they look very good indeed. I hope to have more time and opportunity to make a few posts again now as we got home this week after being away for most of three months.

Jeff

[longbow steve]

Thanks Jeff, it means alot . Glad to hear your home. Steve

[greybeard]

Nice work Steve.

If at the end of the day you have a happy customer you are in front.

Cheers,

Daryl.

[TEX]

Hey Steve
I took my bow to my hunting club meeting on tuesday and had some great feedback.
A few of the boys are very interested in the new shape. I was offered to swap mine for a compound bow but i could never do that. I think you have designed a winner for sure.
Mark

[longbow steve]

Thanks Mark, I just read your email at work. Be good to catch up soon. Steve

[Graeme K]

Hi Steve
Looks great!!!
Wonderful result from such a light bow.

Graeme

[longbow steve]

Thanks Graeme, It is a suprising little thing, carries 18gr/lb well as they were the only arrows I had on hand when I first made it. Steve

[Glenn]

That's a nice looking bow Steve, you would have to be happy with those figures, that's real good performance...Glenn...

[longbow steve]

Thanks Glenn, I am happy with the performance, its not far of its big brother and it is carrying the same string weight and veneer. Steve

[ichiban]

awsome results, i hate the way reflex deflexs look but love how they shoot thats why i gotta get 1 i love it awsome work.

[Stickbow Hunter]

ichiban,

It's a deflex/reflex not a reflex/deflex mate.

Jeff

[ichiban]

mike westvang who is the wrote the section on laminted bows in TBB 4 and is a professional bow builder refers to them as reflex / deflex, dose it matter..really..?
Dave

[Stickbow Hunter]

mike westvang who is the wrote the section on laminted bows in TBB 4 and is a professional bow builder refers to them as reflex / deflex, dose it matter..really..?

Well if Mike Westvang is refering to a bow like Steve's above then he is wrong along with the majority of bow makers and archers now days it seems.

DEFLEX-REFLEX: A bow design where the unbraced limbs curve toward the belly of the bow then reverse direction about mid-limb, reflexing away from the shooter. Reflexing replaces the braced limb stress lost by deflexing.

Does it really matter, IMO yes it does! I say this because mixing up the two terms only leads to confusion as they are complete opposites. These two different types of bow design look nothing like each - see attached photos.

Jeff

[Dennis La Varenne]

Ichiban,

Through the chairman of this thread, Longbow Steve . . .

I have to support Jeff on this terminology issue. We are not trying to be bloody-minded and pedantic. The terminology has been established since at least before World War II. It is premised on the side profile of the bow when unbraced. By established convention, all references are taken from that one stable reference point of any bow - the handle.

So, when we describe the side profile of any bow, we do so in terms of how the limbs are shaped relative to the handle and outward to the tips.

Thus, in a bow like Steve's, the limbe deflex (curve toward the belly of the bow) from the handle and then reflex (curve toward the back of the bow) from near the limb centre and outward to the tips.

The principle thing to understand in bow description and classification is that the handle is the landmark from which all measurements and references are taken.

This long established convention seems to have been forgotten by many bowmakers today who seem to think they are inventing new bows designs when they are only recirculating modifications of bow designs which are fundamentally those invented decades or centuries ago.

When trad bows nearly disappeared in the two decades after the invention of the compound bow in 1967, much of the established archery teminology fell out of common use. The few trad people who hung on during this period tried to keep the established terminology alive. However, with the resurgence of trad archery, many of the newer trad shooters were not enculturated with mainstream trad archery as it was practised and 'preached' before the advent of the compound era. Many of the new adherents began to misuse the old traditional terminology out of genuine ignorance or perhaps fashionable marketing.

The bottom line is that the whole reason we have terms to describe anything in any field is so anyone participating in that field understands what the other is talking about. That's the same reason that in traditional archery terms, deflex-reflex describes a specific limb configuration and not another.

I hope that this helps things a bit more.

Dennis La Varenne