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Title: new elm elb
Post by Hellfire on May 19^th, 2006 at 8:15am

Here is my english longbow. Its about 65lbs at 28", 6' long, and 1 1/4" wide. Its fairly deep and the belly is rounded. Its got about 2" of set. I'm going to heat treat it, more on that later. g2g

Floor tiller.

Title: Re: new elm elb
Post by Roy on May 19^th, 2006 at 8:34am

Looks good. ;D I like those D shaped bows. How does it shoot?

Title: Re: new elm elb
Post by Douglas_The_Black on May 19^th, 2006 at 8:36am

Hey thats a good one! Heres hopeing i get as good as you someday :)

Title: Re: new elm elb
Post by slingbadger on May 19^th, 2006 at 3:24pm

Hope the dog at your feet there wasn't one of the targets. :o

Title: Re: new elm elb
Post by Hellfire on May 19^th, 2006 at 4:59pm

He wasn't a target, I was just bending the bow and taking a picture to see how it was bending. I kind of wish there was more bow-builders or bowyers on the site. I wish english put up some good bow pictures.

There is a detail on the top two pics that wasn't intentional but it looks kind of cool. I'm wearing one large knife on my right hip, and I'm wearing a kukri on my left hip. Someone at school today said it looked kind of cool.

Title: Re: new elm elb
Post by Hellfire on May 19^th, 2006 at 5:02pm

wrote on May 19^th, 2006 at 8:34am:

Looks good. ;D I like those D shaped bows. How does it shoot?

It shoots pretty good. I like it. It seems kind of slow with a light arrow but with a heavy arrow I'm getting some amazing pentration into boxes of sand.

Title: Re: new elm elb
Post by Roy on May 19^th, 2006 at 6:58pm

wrote on May 19^th, 2006 at 4:59pm:

I kind of wish there was more bow-builders or bowyers on the site.

I need to give myself more time to build more bows, but I keep on getting orders for those darned muzzleloaders. ::)

Title: Re: new elm elb
Post by CanDo on May 19^th, 2006 at 8:47pm

That sure is a nice bow :)

I sort of finished mine, and have been trying for a while to get pics up, but the camera won't corporate.... this has inspired me to do so however.

What type of wood is it?

Title: Re: new elm elb
Post by siguy on May 19^th, 2006 at 10:00pm

cando, i think it is elm (check out the title of the topic)

Title: Re: new elm elb
Post by CanDo on May 19^th, 2006 at 11:36pm

haha, well thank you very much. I kind of missed that ;D

Title: Re: new elm elb
Post by english on May 21^st, 2006 at 10:42am

Pretty bow. Very nice, good tiller. What's the brace height? It looks a little low - in fact, I'd set the brace height at about the draw you have in the first picture, maybe just a little less. Should be about a fist's height, with an upturned thumb (a fistmele), as I'm sure you know. But that's a minor problem, and it's not anything wrong with the bow itself.
I'll post some pictures sometime, hellfire, I promise. But my bows are mostly getting old, and are not often used. I've got one quite nice bow that I'll take photos of in the next few months, probably, once I've sorted out tint's crossbow.

Title: Re: new elm elb
Post by Hellfire on May 21^st, 2006 at 2:46pm

The brace height is plenty high enough, about six inches. I like to shoot really heavy hickory and ash arrows, so with a lower more efficient brace height they will shoot better.

Round bellied bows are a lot of fun to make. Although they aren't ideal in terms of efficiency, they work just fine and will get the job done. 1 1/4" wide is pretty narrow for a 65 pound bow, so I think that 2" of set is ok. I am planning on removing almost all of it though when I get done heat treating it.

Title: Re: new elm elb
Post by Hellfire on May 21^st, 2006 at 9:06pm

I piked and heat treated an older elm long/flatbow that was fairly low poundage. Now it is about 67" long, 1 1/4" wide, and about 55 pounds at 28". No set, its really a snappy shooter. I'm going to apply this heat treating technique to my elm elb I just made so I can up the poundage about fifteen pounds and lower the set.