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walter Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2453	long bow in progress Feb 24^th, 2019 at 6:23pm My first attempt. 70 1/2" n to n oak board bow. Tips are bending 5" with 30 lbs pull; ready to string @ 4" high with full draw weight of 50 lbs. I hope
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Reply #1 - Feb 27^th, 2019 at 2:49pm

Looks good. I like your tillering tree setup.

One of my first bows was a board bow of red oak. I ended up taking way too much off and it came out at about 23 lb @ 28". I still have it and shoot it every once in a while. It's fun because as you back away from the target, you really need to arc your shots.

Looking forward to see how your bow comes along.

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Kick past-moderator Offline Posts: 4451 Finland	Re: long bow in progress Reply #2 - Feb 28^th, 2019 at 10:26am I need to have a go at making a bow. I'm particularly liking the videos made by Mick Grewcock: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr_zw4hK5YIIcE59-iymfxg He's really good at making his videos informative and entertaining.
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Reply #3 - Feb 28^th, 2019 at 2:01pm

Kick wrote on Feb 28^th, 2019 at 10:26am:

I'm particularly liking the videos made by Mick Grewcock

I watch his videos for the shooting I like the high draw weights. For bow making, the traditional bowyers bibles are just the best thing you can spend time on.
I don't do archery Sad

don't have a place yet. so nowadays I try to figure out anchor points, form and aiming methods.
I can't find a video to explain how to draw and aim heavy poundage warbows (don't want to hurt my slinger's shoulders) . any suggestions? Huh

walter

are you backing the bow?

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Reply #4 - Feb 28^th, 2019 at 3:02pm

I haven't seen any of Mick's videos before. I'll check them out.

Sarosh wrote on Feb 28^th, 2019 at 2:01pm:

the traditional bowyers bibles are just the best thing you can spend time on

^^^Totally agree with this. Although I would says it's good to have a basic knowledge of bow making beforehand. Some of the information can get a little hard to follow.

Another of my favorite bow making resources is a DVD you can find here: http://www.osageorange.com/. He also has it listed on ebay. It's a little pricey, but the detail it goes into is great.

@Sarosh, I haven't heard anything on heavier draw weights other than you have to work yourself up to them. Like any other kind of weight training, you need time to build up the strength of your muscles, tendons, etc. Once you're comfortable at a particular weight, you can increase it a bit. One thing you can do with a bow that's a little heavier than you're used to is shorten up your draw length while your strength builds.

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walter Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2453	Re: long bow in progress Reply #5 - Feb 28^th, 2019 at 5:20pm I'm not going to back it. I do want to shorten it a couple inches as there is zero set so far and a 72" bow (tip to tip) is really a loongbow
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Mersa Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Druid Posts: 2612 Australia Gender:	Re: long bow in progress Reply #6 - Mar 1^st, 2019 at 1:05am I've had a go at a few primitive bows , morphy knows all to much .
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Sarosh Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 1180	Re: long bow in progress Reply #7 - Mar 1^st, 2019 at 2:15am build alongs might be a better help for a beginner but after 1 or 2 working bows i think it's a good time to read TBB vol1. I started bow making after reading this http://poorfolkbows.com/oak.htm my experience with fiberglass : don't ever use that again on a bow.
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walter Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2453	Re: long bow in progress Reply #8 - Mar 3^rd, 2019 at 5:16pm 50lbs @ 22". I made a 3 ply 15 strand b50 string for it. Forgot how much b50 stretches. A couple more times on the tiller and I think it will be done.
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Morphy Slinging.org Moderator Offline Checkmate Posts: 8124	Re: long bow in progress Reply #9 - Mar 5^th, 2019 at 4:11am Nice Walter. Is this your first ever bow or just your first board bow?
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walter Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2453	Re: long bow in progress Reply #10 - Mar 5^th, 2019 at 7:30am First ever. Decided that 50lbs is still a little heavy for me. Now shooting for 45@29". By the time the bow was pulling 50lbs @ 20", it had 3/4" of string follow (set?) measured immediately after unbracing the bow at the tips. Hoping the bow doesn't end up a 45lb bow with 50lb sf
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walter Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2453	Re: long bow in progress Reply #11 - Mar 13^th, 2019 at 8:01pm Got to spend about an hour on my bow today. It is pulling 45# @ 24" now. Bought another scale. They all lie, so now I check the weight on all 3 and divide by?
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Sarosh Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 1180	Re: long bow in progress Reply #12 - Mar 14^th, 2019 at 11:58am lol can't you just adjust one?
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joe_meadmaker Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Ice is Cool! Posts: 3211 PA, USA	Re: long bow in progress Reply #13 - Mar 14^th, 2019 at 12:15pm Do you have anything of a known weight to check your scales and see which one is the most accurate? What kind of scale are you using? I use something similar to this: https://www.amazon.com/American-Weigh-AMW-LS-110-Digital-LuGGaGe/dp/B00OVLH548
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Reply #14 - Mar 14^th, 2019 at 8:11pm

Sarosh, yes. It's called a hammer

Joe, two say 2 gallons of water weigh 16 lbs, but they loose it past 30lbs. Went to walmart and bought a six dollar luggage scale. It is reasonably accurate. I am also using my other inexpensive spring scale to average out the weigt. The costly digital scale reads what it wants when it wants. .

I can already tiller a bow (for me) by feel. If I can draw it 28" for hours at a time, it's just right

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