A Short Bow For A Mate

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A Short Bow For A Mate

#1 Post by woodie » Sun Mar 13, 2016 6:32 pm

A mate of mine from my archery club asked me to make him a short recurve bow.
He would like a short bow because he is in a wheelchair. Anyone that has been to HVTA would of seen him Duncan, he is a great inspiration to those that have a handicap as he will have a go at anything.
After a lot of searching here as well as tradgang I was given a set of PDF form planes of a 46" bow.
It is 40 1/2" across nock to nock, 46" when strung by the person who gave it to me, has a 12" riser and a total core thickness of 180thou but I was going to make it around the 170thou because I am going to use 1.75" wide by 40thou thick glass. The core is vertical bamboo.
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Now for some lams and a riser.
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Re: A Short Bow For A Mate

#2 Post by UPTHETOP » Sun Mar 13, 2016 9:17 pm

Good luck with the project Woodie, Im shore she'll come out just fine.

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Re: A Short Bow For A Mate

#3 Post by woodie » Sun Mar 13, 2016 9:48 pm

Thanks mate, I hope so too.
There will be more updates. :auto-dirtbike:
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#4 Post by Gringa Bows » Mon Mar 14, 2016 7:51 am

Looks good Woodie look forward to seeing it finished

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Re: A Short Bow For A Mate

#5 Post by Flatliner » Tue Mar 15, 2016 12:44 pm

Wow Woodie, Ya gona have some fun laying that one up. But I'm sure you're up to the task.

Might pay to add another couple of clamps/braces on the ends of your form, with curves like that there'll be some serious pressure to straighten that hose and bend/break your form.

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Re: A Short Bow For A Mate

#6 Post by woodie » Tue Mar 15, 2016 4:13 pm

Rob there are 2 more on there now, I did not bring them home from work on Friday.
I will either get it or through it, depends on my patience, normally good.
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Re: A Short Bow For A Mate

#7 Post by Nezwin » Tue Mar 15, 2016 5:01 pm

Impressive curves! What tapers are you using on your lam stack?

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#8 Post by woodie » Tue Mar 15, 2016 6:02 pm

The info that the block from the US gave me said 2 x 0.001/1" tapers as well as well as a power lam. That is a short lam that is just a 1" or 2 longer than the length of the riser, is that right?
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#9 Post by rodlonq » Wed Mar 16, 2016 12:27 pm

Looks great Woodie, can't wait to see the end product.

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#10 Post by greybeard » Wed Mar 16, 2016 2:22 pm

Woodie, the recurve is certainly a compact design.

Will the string nocks be forward of the handle on the unbraced bow?

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Re: A Short Bow For A Mate

#11 Post by woodie » Wed Mar 16, 2016 4:01 pm

Daryl where the tape is sitting is about where the string grooves will be by the form pic that it is laid by, so I don't think they will be.
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Re: A Short Bow For A Mate

#12 Post by yeoman » Thu Mar 17, 2016 7:33 pm

In the '30s (might have been the '40s) Dr. Hickman, of Archery: The Technical Side proposed a theoretical bow in which the limbs were so heavily reflexed that at full draw they were unwound to a straight alignment.

This looks much like the hypothesis proposed by Hickman. Great stuff! I'm very keen to see the end result. I intend on doing something similar in wood (though not so short) sometime.
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Re: A Short Bow For A Mate

#13 Post by woodie » Sat Mar 19, 2016 6:50 pm

I did some work towards making the bow/s today.
Cut out a riser for my recurve
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As well as getting the lams for both bows, one for me and one for Duncan, started.
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Still has to be tapered.
More to come.
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#14 Post by rodlonq » Sat Mar 19, 2016 7:00 pm

Getting' fancy there Woodie, should look great when it is all done.

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Re: A Short Bow For A Mate

#15 Post by woodie » Mon Apr 25, 2016 10:59 am

Glued up one of the recurves yesterday but had a bit of trouble with the form not clamping the lams and glass to the riser. I think I cut out to much so it might be a new form coming.
So mid glue up I changed how I was gluing, I took out the riser and will add it to the belly.
Not sure what the poundage will be as I got 50 thou glass instead of 40 thou, no problems though.
The recipe is 2 50 thou glass 2 50 thou by 1 thou tappers.
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Re: A Short Bow For A Mate

#16 Post by bigbob » Mon Apr 25, 2016 12:18 pm

I like the work you have been doing on the riser block Woodie. Hope the riser conforms to your limbs satisfactorily.They do work as I've seen other examples you know where.
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Re: A Short Bow For A Mate

#17 Post by woodie » Mon Apr 25, 2016 1:26 pm

Thank you bigbob I have a long way to go.
I think I will be using a different riser block with this, I have some 50mm by 100mm Tassy oak that I will use.
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