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Black locust has lovely color and cypress nice odor

    Nice job.  Good looking bows!

Very nice sir!  This, as well as the photos walter has posted in recent months of his bow, definitely make me want to get back in to bow making.  My last one was probably 4 or 5 years ago.

Just curious about one thing.  On the black locust bow you have that little step near the ends where they start to narrow.  It looks very cool, but is this not just adding mass near the tips?  Does this bow have any hand shock?  I'm also curious if you saw a design like that somewhere.  Like I said, it looks very cool.

Your bows look good Sarosh! The heavier bow sounds like it hits pretty hard too. How long and wide is it? Does it have much set? Bet you can't make just two ;)

Thanks guys!

joe_meadmaker wrote on Oct 9^th, 2019 at 8:55pm:

On the black locust bow you have that little step near the ends where they start to narrow.  It looks very cool, but is this not just adding mass near the tips?  Does this bow have any hand shock?  I'm also curious if you saw a design like that somewhere.

the Black locust bow has much more hand shock than the cypress bow, both shooting the same arrows which is not a good idea...
I'm not sure what creates more handshock the knots/ that step/the tip shape? I could try and work the tips narrower/shorter but I reached the point where it's better to leave it as it is and move on another bow between the knots the working bow limb is at its narrowest and that was the guide for the resulting poundage.

That step is like the fades of a bow handle but with a harder change. It's the transition between working to stiff limb , inspired by the overall shape of the holmegaard bow.
the wood between the knots required a big amount of  sideways dry heat bending and the holmegaard tips helped to center the string.

to make the step I measured width and thickness of working portion of the limb before the stiff limb and calculated the new thickness width it needed to have the same "strength" and then made the step plus a (~1cm)short length, thick and wide for safe transition. It's like a digital transition rather than an analog transition.


walter wrote on Oct 9^th, 2019 at 11:29pm:

How long and wide is it? Does it have much set? Bet you can't make just two

182cm (71.65")long, 3.2cm (~1.26")wide, set: 5cm(~2") knotty limb, 4cm(1.57") the other

the black locust tree has been cut and seasoned there are 3 bow staves waiting for me.
I do a lot of bows and other hobby projects at the same time they never finish  :P . last bows I paused constructing was an experiment with linen backing w/ hide glue and siyahs .

Looks really good my question is what is the building in the background.

ghost0311-8541 wrote on Oct 10^th, 2019 at 8:40am:

my question is what is the building in the background.

I think it's a concrete water tank, there is access to the water from the top, with stones around it to make it look like a building. I wonder why would anyone get into so much trouble to make it look like this.

To make it blend in we the terrain.

Nice Job Sarosh. Is the locust sinew backed?

@ Morphy

no , it's linen backed