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Rob,
Nice workmanship on the cases, they should provide ample protection for the bow and arrows.
Daryl.

I wanted some bamboo arrows to use with my Asiatic style bows. At $49.00 per dozen after discount and delivered to my door I thought it worth the risk. The self nocked arrows appear to be well made although the parallel slip over field points may be a little difficult to remove from some type of tar...

I connected the cyclone dust collector on the 20th. March this year and I had to empty the 20 litre collection bin on the 4th. June. This unit has proved to be very efficient as only about a teaspoon of sanding dust was in the bag on the exhaust end of the dust extractor. Daryl. * Sanding Dust From ...

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Daryl.

If your draw length is around 30” and you want to shoot a longbow I agree with Jeff. A 70” n to n bow is probably the better option but your choices maybe limited with an ‘off the shelf’ bow. To ascertain if and when your bow goes into stack build a jig as shown in the image. * String To Tip Angle.j...

Hi Cam, Are you making arrows for particular style of bow at a given draw weight and draw length or just experimenting? If you are not familiar with the AMO details for arrows check pages six and seven in the attached PDF. * AMOStandards.pdf * The information is most likely based on Port Orford ceda...

Hi QIMB, Perhaps you could try to source some of the following timber. You may have to check out wooden boat builders and I believe picture frame manufacturers also use straight grained knot free Huon pine. Daryl. https://www.wood-database.com/huon-pine/ https://www.wood-database.com/douglas-fir/

Angus,

I was fortunate to get a good pole from my local Bunning’s store. I was told the stores have a certain amount of autonomy as to the depth of products they stock.

I was able to get six strips out of this 10 cm pole using my cordless circular saw.

Daryl.
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Hi Angus, String follow / set is inevitable with selfbows. Steps such as pulling the limbs into reflex using heat can help minimise the amount of set. I prefer to use wet heat [steam] rather than a heat gun. http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=33079.0 https://www.tradgang.com/tgsmf/in...

After watching several videos on making a dust collector with hit and miss results I thought paying $34.00 for a commercially made one a bargain. My biggest challenge was finding a suitable flexible hose, rigid pvc pipe and fittings. I managed to find the bits and pieces at the local Bunning’s store...

Jeff, They are probably a bit slow in lighter draw weights and would need to be in the 50# plus to get better performance. Tip mass would be similar to that of a 30# bow. I found a video of a similar style bow; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_1bH2gezX4 Best performance I could get out of 31# was 1...

I finally finished the bow a couple of weeks ago and all going well it will have a new home.

Daryl.
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Angus, I don’t know if the bow was dead vertical in the photo but you should be able to work out the stiff spots. * Part Draw.jpg * Usually I have found once the bow is braced with the correct length string I can scrape the stiff spots on the belly, every so often exercising the limbs with short dra...

You need to be more selective in what timbers you use. Vic ash is a generic term covering various species of eucalypt and probably one of the worst timbers for bow making. Try sourcing some hickory or hard rock maple from a specialist timber merchant. Straight grained spotted gum can work and using ...

Have a look at the following link, quite a good explanation and images.

Daryl.

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/inde ... ic=44850.0

I'll see if I can find some a 'bend through the handle' examples on the Internet. Perhaps I should have worded ‘bend through the handle’ differently. Don’t add a handle block or shape a riser. Rely on the thickness of the stave in the ‘grip’ area and it will bend slightly during the draw cycle thus...

It is a little difficult to evaluate a situation from an image. The first thing I noticed in the images was the abrupt fadeouts of the glued on handle. This has a similar effect of bending a strip of timber over the edge of your work bench. Has the timber lost its moisture content? I would suggest a...

What style of bow are you trying to make?

Could you post an image of the bows edge profile showing the handle, fadeouts and indicate where the limb is failing. Also what shape is the limb cross section and nock to nock length of the bow?

Have you tried a bend through the handle bow?

Daryl.

I really like the combination of steel and timber in this I like the clean lines of the knife and agree with the handle and blade combination. The leather work will improve and I think most people would appreciate the hand made look as opposed to something punched out in a factory. Well done, Daryl.

I made a new form to make a bow similar to an Egyptian style bow but I think I went a bit off track. Although the final product is not what I envisaged it appears to perform well. The shaped handle and static tips were glued to the bamboo core and allowed to cure before bringing the laminations toge...

Unless thickened the fadeouts may be too thin to support the limbs at full draw particularly with heavier draw weights. There appears to be sufficient thickness to accommodate threaded inserts and possibly the alignment pins. The takedown limb wedges would essentially lengthen the riser and probably...

Hi Clinton,

I do not know of any bowyers who would be interested in re building the bow.

It is something you could do if you are willing to do the research, put in lots of time and spend a fair amount of money.

Daryl.

Hi Clinton, Were you thinking of salvaging the laminations and then have them re glued to the riser or just saving the riser and having new laminations including the glass glued to it. A bow form would need to be made to complete the task. Overall the refurbishing would be an expensive exercise bein...

Hi Matt,

I recently had an experience with a Chinese made Assyrian style bow that was supposedly 35#.

It went the other way and came in at 23#.

Daryl.

It looks as though it would do the job, I would hate to be on the receiving end.

Daryl.

No, I haven't tried that method as I have a workshop full of power tools. When needed I use a 50 mm power planer that does the job. I envisaged a milling bit up to 50 mm in diameter which would cover the limb width in one pass down the length of the limb instead of several passes with a small diamet...

metalhead wrote: ↑Thu Dec 23, 2021 8:09 pm Don't ACS takedown longbows have a concave belly?

Perhaps they were inspired by Howard Hill's patent.

Daryl.

Dave, I often wonder why offset handles never became popular; Ben Pearson tried it in 1955 with his Bushmaster recurve. Patents for offset handles were lodged many years before 1955. Time passes quickly; https://ozbow.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=16177&p=167720&hilit If the belly tape...

Dave,

I haven’t got around to making the profiling bits to try the following.

Daryl.

Was the different limb length a Hill innovation or are the bowyers producing his bows responsible. From memory this idea was reasonably popular when making selfbows. Supposedly it made tillering easier. Extract from the http://www.vintagearchery.org/howard-hill.html "Hill had never really been ...