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Gringa Bows · #1 Post by **Gringa Bows** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:25 pm

i finally started grinding my own timber laminations,so last week i made a bow with my own tapers,i used the coffee coloured vertical bamboo flooring real happy with the way it turned out,any way it's 68in.ntn 47#-28in.the handle is Burdikin plum that was cut down at turkey beach less than 200k'sfrom here,tips are b.plum and tigerwood,the string is a three spliced flemish twist my first string ive made with three colours,did'nt get a lot of photo's..............Rod

Gringa Bows · #2 Post by **Gringa Bows** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:28 pm

photo's turned out smaller than i thought they would,maybe Gundy could make them a bit bigger....................Rod

#3 Post by **Stickbow Hunter** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:45 pm

It looks good Rod. The photos are a bit small. It would be best if you could make them bigger from the original file as most likely upsizing wouldn't work well - sorry.

Jeff

greybeard · #4 Post by **greybeard** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:55 pm

Hi Rod,

The photos are fine.

A bonus to those on a limited download.

Daryl.

#5 Post by **Stickbow Hunter** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:08 pm

Well Daryl must have good eyes for an old fella.

Jeff

GrahameA · #6 Post by **GrahameA** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:19 pm

Hi Jeff

Hold down the Ctrl key and move the wheel on your mouse. Works in all windows.

#7 Post by **outbackarcher** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:09 am

looks awesome! well done rod.
whats a three splice string? isnt it a a string with tree insted of two?

lewis

longbow steve · #8 Post by **longbow steve** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:36 am

Well done Rod, Are they full length lams? Would be nice to see the Burdekin plum closer up

. Steve

pdccr · #9 Post by **pdccr** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:38 am

Looks good mate

#10 Post by **Stickbow Hunter** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:02 pm

Yeah Grahame you can zoom them but the quality isn't there. I like to see good detail in photos, especially of bows.

Jeff

stringnstik · #11 Post by **stringnstik** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:07 pm

Nice lookin deep dark wood. luv it, great job

pdccr · #12 Post by **pdccr** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:12 pm

Can you write a tutorial on how to make one? It looks like a really nice bow, i would love to try one after a normal bamboo flooring bow.

Gringa Bows · #13 Post by **Gringa Bows** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:05 pm

thanks guy's,yes Lewis it means three different colours i usually just do two but now i do three yellow black and white not any harder to do than two colours...LBSteve i just did these ones in halves and glued them together will do full lenth in the future i will get the missus to put bigger photo's up when she gets home i think it goes well with the dark bamboo,pdccr if you look at Jeff's bamboo build along it's more or less the same, we just have different forms......and i look better doing it....

...........Rod

longbow steve · #14 Post by **longbow steve** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:20 pm

Hi Rod, Looks good, when are you going to start putting a shelf on them

? Steve

Gringa Bows · #15 Post by **Gringa Bows** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:26 pm

if i go any deeper the handle might break,besides it's not recurve

longbow steve · #16 Post by **longbow steve** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:37 pm

The handle wont break Rod

I keep mine off centre and legal for all organisations but radius the window to the centre line of the riser.
It is up to you though

. Steve

Gringa Bows · #17 Post by **Gringa Bows** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:45 pm

hope these turned out bigger

jape · #18 Post by **jape** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:48 pm

Those pics are great, small file size for those of us on dial-up, enough detail to see well, thanks mate. Hopefully others will see what you have done.

pdccr · #19 Post by **pdccr** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:14 pm

I noticed jeff used glass, did you do the same or is that just the colour of the boo?

Len · #20 Post by **Len** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:25 pm

Lovely looking bow, well done. I wonder how it will shoot ?

#21 Post by **Stickbow Hunter** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:37 pm

That's better Rod, my old eys can see the detail now. That riser has a bit of fiddle back in it and it looks like you have changed the look of your sight window on this bow?

Jeff

Gringa Bows · #22 Post by **Gringa Bows** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:30 pm

Toby i used 40thou brown glass for this one,Len i made this bow as a gift for my hunting buddy,he keeps saying he's impressed with the way it shoots and feels,yes Jeff the riser does have a fiddle back affect if i know what you mean,i try to make each bow different ,by doing tips different as well as the sight window on this one just experimenting,i didnt get a bite from you about what i said to toby before

..........Steve just joking about the handle i took it in a bit further since i took the photo's

............Rod

otis.drum · #23 Post by **otis.drum** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:55 pm

it's beaut Rod,
is that a lam of glass in the tips?
i like the colour of the glass, can anyone tell me of a timber that colour that might be suitable for backing an all wood, or can you stain wood for bows.

if you can stain it how do you do it/ when do you do it. do you do it once its in place and tillered, and if so how do you stop it getting on other lams. if you do it before you glue up i wouldn't think it would penetrate deep enough to stain the wood in the middle where the tillering will take it back to. anyone???

otis...

#24 Post by **Stickbow Hunter** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:09 pm

i didnt get a bite from you about what i said to toby before

I had to go back and see what you were woffling on about as I missed it. You look better???

Jeff

pdccr · #25 Post by **pdccr** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:07 pm

Im more interested in the bow but maybe the girls might be interested in the builder

greybeard · #26 Post by **greybeard** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:46 pm

Hi Rod,

It would appear that you got the 'bugs' out of the grinder. What percentage taper are you using for the laminations?

The Burdikin Plum blends in well with the bow. Brown glass [in my opinion] seems to suit most timbers.

Cheers,

Daryl.

Gringa Bows · #27 Post by **Gringa Bows** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:57 pm

yes Daryl thanks for all your help with it,i just have a hard time reading the digital calipers,cant seem to get them to read right just bought a set of sidchrome they read right for a few days i measure the same thing a few times and get different readings must be dust or something,thinking of getting a digital micrometer might be easier to use.....Rod

Gringa Bows · #28 Post by **Gringa Bows** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:20 am

yes Otis it is a piece of the same glass as in the limbs between the tiger wood and the b.plum .........Rod

Gringa Bows · #29 Post by **Gringa Bows** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:40 am

whoops Daryl i missed that ,it's one thou.per inch...............Rod

Brett Finger · #30 Post by **Brett Finger** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:43 pm

Ummmmm,

when Rod says his hunting buddy is impressed with this bow, that might just scrape in as the UNDERSTATMENT OF THE YEAR,

the man loves the bow and is cheering hard about how good it is, and this guys is one of the better TRAD bow hunters i have wandered the scrub with over the past 30 years.

he has many - many years of TRAD bowhunting under his belt and knows timber inside and out himself, so to have a bushman the caliber of this guy useing your bow with so much enthausim is wayyyy cool.

big Rod is a man of few words when it comes to his talents with timber, and i always make a noise for him, as i want his work to be recognised for the high caliber it is.

he's come a loooong way in a short time, of corse the support and teachings he has from arguably aussies beiggest named Bowers is a "fast track"

tis the nature of the beast to keep "trade secerts" but giveing the big man's most pleasant deminia and how he holds himself in life is testament, enough to see why he was so well recieved / tutored by his peers.

good guy dont always finish last, and it's a pleasure to see this one finishing in the top pack.

and yes he is my friend.
Kindest Regards, Brett ( my way of saying thanks i suppose... )

Ozbow

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