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Thx,

The information looks very helpful

Chris

I am not sure if this has been asked before on this forum, but I am wondering how to dry sinew? I am assuming it needs to be dry before beating.

Thx for any replys

Chris

Ok, Thx for the replys and links I understand that composite bows may not work well around here, but its at least got to be a little better down here in NSW then QLD. Anyways performance is not a major issue for me, and I intend to take the plunge some day and attempt one, if only for the experience...

Ok thx, I wonder how many Asian grocery stores I can find here on the NSW central coast, fish bladders and deer sinew would be awesome, assuming I can figure out the process of using the two. The idea of the cracking sound is making me cringe already. I wish my reenactment group had some composite b...

Hi guy, Thx for the links they are realy helpful, I am going to look into the hide and fish glues now. I particularly like the idea of the liquid fish/hide glue if it is just as good as the other forms of fish/hide glue save me the worry of having to boil it. Question, do you have any idea how much ...

I was also wondering if the hide glue you can buy for fixing musical instruments would be any good, For exmaple http://cgi.ebay.com.au/HIDE-GLUE-TOOL-for-Repair-of-WOOD-CRAFT-PRODUCTS_W0QQitemZ150256396318QQihZ005QQcategoryZ3128QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem I read on Atarn that fish glue cou...

Hi, I want to try out a sinew backed bow and was wondering if anyone had ideas about alternate glues or perhaps how I could make or get traditional glues such as hide glue or fish bladder glue. I read years ago on an American forum about using Titebond with sinew and think I can recall that it worke...

About the ironbark i turns out i can get both quite easly so if i am gunna get some i will prob get grey.

Thx

Chris

Thx, Is their much difference between grey and red though, couse i can get red easly grey will prob be a bit harder.

Sorry to be a bit off topic

Chris

Wat is better red or grey iron bark, i can easly get hold of some but i am not sure which one is better, i know that my local saw mill, milled some red ironbark like a few weeks ago and i am gunna get some this week end. Is grey better then red? ( this is an assumption) Chris Oh and that 5 lam bow s...

That wat i thought may happen oh well i will give it ago on a ELB i am planing to make in a few weeks. I hope it is worth the try.

Thx for Your reply

I tillered the bow today and she is working, shot it a few times, but unfortanatly it is much lighter then i had hoped (Only 32# at 26" and i ahd hoped for at leased 45#), This is primaraly becouse the board was a bit thin before i started shaping it, couse it was an off cut from my last bow, o...

Oh and i just wanted to back it with boo manly for speed and durability. Umm my last bow was backed with silk and it seem a bit slow so i was hopeing the boo would make sure this one was a bit faster.

Regards

Chris

It is milled but is not finished, umm i planned from the start to back it with boo but could only get small diamiter boo a bit under 6cm. Thus the crown is Quite round. Anyways i ended up backing it with silk, but i would still like to know y having a large crown on boo is so bad? Thx for your reply...

I am going to back my Spotty recurve flatbow with some boo but the boo has a high crown in wat ways will this affect the boo and the bow.

I.e wat is so bad about the boo having a hight crown, i hav gessed wat may be bad but no sure.

Regards

Chris

What so if i put a thin peice of wood in the kerf slot before gluing i wont need to laminated the back,

but if i just glued up the kerf would i?

Thx for your help and i will let ya know how it goes,

Chirs

i got the to poles and flattened them down to 1.4" wide, but the pole was only 5cms wide so it is sorta freaking me out, would this make the crown of the boo to round to make a good backing? They seem hardsih to bend but i dont want to take em to far incase they snap. I dont know much about bam...

Ok, lol so the tassies out, it just that i hav it in my room and i want 2 get rid of it. Anyways i already kerf using the slot but that is a good idea i might try it nextime. since i used a kerf i dont realy need to put wood on the belly to stop it from going flat anyway, is that right? Thx for repl...

Ok thx for your reply I was thinking of laminating the belly side of the recurve area with a 1/16 peice of tassy oak i hav in my room just to reinforce the curve. Pob just use 24hour epoxy. umm I read that kerfing the recurve is an effective way to recurve wat do u guys think of it? or should i just...

umm i was just wondering how spotted gum takes to recurving using dry heat (eg heat gun). Couse this would save me the effort of steaming it.

Regards Chirs

yah i was thinking of trying to us two strips i will hav to go to bunnings this weekend and get em.

Thx for ya replys

Chris

Oh yah i i still think a nice big 7 foot yumi would so well with my armour, (maybe one day).

I hav a few site that u may also find useful but i am not sure if they r still bookmarked as i finished my armour at the start of the year and have not used em since i will post em if i can find em. But this site^^^ was by far the most useful.

Good luck with ya armour

Chris

Oh and if that fails i will prob just glue a little peice of flat wood about 1.5" wide on the recurves to stop the string.

would u say that the limb tips in the pics a wide? i cant realy tell, but yah i guess i am gunna hav to go for a pretty good limb alignment.

Thx for your replys

How much does postage normaly cost for a few 1800 long 75mm poles from that site anyways? (say 3 poles)

Thx

I tryed bunnings and they only hav 1m llong poles, so i am gunna hav a look at that site althrough i did not realy want to order it, oh well, thx for the help all.

regards

Chris

I am thinking bow backing my next 1.5" flatbow with boo how wide does the natural boo pole need to be to back this? Any help would be useful

Regards,

Chris

I am planing to start making a recurve flatbow some time this week. But before i start i need to know what exactly stop the string from missing the curves and destringing. I understand that mongol bows have bridges (as i have made a few) but these long recurves dont seem to hav em. dose anyone hav a...

I know this topic is way dead now but i just thought i would mention, this is the very site i used to make my samurai armour as seen in my pic<<<<<<<<<<<

it was very useful

Chris