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Hi flyne,

There are very good two and three piece takedowns available on the market. For pure simplicity my preference is for the two piece but as is with all things bows are a personal thing so choose what you are comfortable with.

Daryl.

Hi Graeme, Thank you for the thread. You have certainly pushed to the limits the materials used in this project and the beast held together. The information you have gathered will certainly be beneficial in your next projects be they static tip, recurve or longbow. When you get the bow back to full ...

Hi Len,

Nice work.

Self bows always have a special charm about them.

Daryl.

Thanks Bowshu,
I am using a Kodak Z700 but my results are nowhere as good as yours. Maybe I still need to learn how to drive it properly.

Daryl.

Nice photos Bowshu, the detail on the skin very good. Do you use a digital or film camera?

Daryl.

Hi Mick,

I had a good chuckle at your wording.

Cheers,
Daryl.

Hi Jhoneil,
Thank you for the posting.
The photos are great and their detail shows me how I can improve my construction techniques.

Cheers,

Daryl.

Hi Steven J,
I bet the boys are enjoying making their own bows.
It is indeed refreshing to see people such as yourself and Dave going the extra distance to help the youth of today.
All the best with the project.

Daryl.

Hi David,
You are doing a fantastic job getting the younger ones involved in a project such as this. I'll bet that they are enjoying every minute of the project.
I wish my workshop was that big.

Daryl.

Hi Alex,
You may wish to check out a thread posted by AntMob 10/11/06 titled Aust Bow Manuf's Past & Present.

Daryl.

Hi Mick,
Thanks for the great photos.
It looks as though the ranges are set up in a picturesque location.

Daryl.

A funeral service is being held for a woman who has just passed away. At the end of the service, the pall bearers are carrying the casket out when they accidentally bump into a wall. Jarring the casket they hear a faint moan. They open the casket and find that the woman is actually alive. She lives ...

Hi, Thanks to all for the info on chronographs. After a mate brought one around to my place we played around for about half an hour. I do not know if it was properly calibrated but do know they won’t work successfully under fluorescent light so we used it in a bright area in the back yard. I ...

Axe, If some of the wording in part of my post offended you or others than so be it? Yes, I do agree with you that bowyers, fletchers etc. do submit articles on their latest achievements, call it bragging if you wish, but in the main they explain how the end result was achieved and done with the hop...

Coach, The Ozbow site has numerous forums covering hunting, traditional tackle etc. and is an excellent forum for the exchange of ideas, information and achievements. Hunting is a personal thing, many are quiet achievers whereas others need to brag about their achievements, be it to gain acceptance ...

All going well, I will be there.
It will be good to put faces to names.

Daryl.

Hi Graeme, Thank you for sharing your bow with us. The home made glass seems to really enhance the colour of the core. From memory I think you were laying up the glass on a glued up core. If so do you sand the the glass to an even thickness before tillering or let the tiller board show you the areas...

Hi David,
You appear to be making excellent progress with the bow. I have also found that what appears to be a flexable core certainly stiffens up when the back and belly laminations are applied.

Daryl.

A man staggered into a hospital with a concussion, multiple bruises,two black eyes, and a five iron wrapped tightly around his throat. Naturally, the Doctor asked him, "What happened to you?" "Well, I was having a quiet round of golf with my wife, when at a difficult hole, we both sli...

The following pertains to bamboo back and belly bows. From my initial experimentation with these types of bows I started with a single core and gradually progressed to five lamination cores. Single cores were prone to failing because of the difficulty in getting the ‘perfect’ piece of t...

Hi Archangel, I need to correct an oversight in an earlier reply regarding the glue up. Although I made a solid form for this bow only the core and belly were glued up on it. A moveable form was used to glue the backing bamboo. I hope my oversight was not too misleading. Cheers, Daryl.

Hi coolhippy80 As a kid I would try to make a bow out of any kind of branch or offcut of wood I could find. I 'borrowed' dowelling that my dad had to use for arrows and the fletches were cut out of thin cardboard and stuck to the dowell with stickytape. My re introduction to bow making happened at a...

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Archangel, Unfortunately I cannot be too specific regarding lamination thickness as I have been using between two and five laminations. Depending on the type of timber used the overall core thickness can vary from 4 to 7 mm. This thickness and number of laminations is also governed by the amount of ...

Hi Archangel, I have found that if you work the bamboo to tight tolerences and make them as thin as possible by removing as much soft innner as possible you end up with all power fibres. I use a set of verniers and take thickness measurements at 4" intervals. By doing this you can obtain unifor...

Thank you for the words of encouragement. I apologize for not posting a reply earlier but changing to broadband created problems that I did not anticipate. To answer some of the questions; Archangel, I specially made a form for this particular bow. If I decide to make some glass versions of this bow...

It was by coincidence that an earlier posting by Grahame A had resurfaced a couple of weeks ago regarding this style of bow. I was becoming bored with producing fibre glass back and bellied bows and wanted to get back to using bamboo. The style of bow described by Grahame A was in fact going to be m...

Hi Grahame, I have found that a thumb release gives an almost perfect follow through time after time. Although shooting without the ring and the string slightly in front of the knuckle I did experience some discomfort after numerous shots (42# static tip bow). I believe this is one of the most effic...

Hi Archangel, You appear to be making good progress and yes it is amazing how easy it is to become totally absorbed in a project such as yours. It is definately more rewarding but possibly more addictive than churning out untold numbers of longbows. Having the luxuary of being retired I spend countl...