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The Bow-Smyth: Limb wedges
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Trials and errors in bow making. Bow building for apartment dwellers. View my complete profile. Wednesday, July 22, 2009. Limb wedges are sandwiched in between the limb laminations and add thickness at the fades. This part will be the least flexible part of the limb. My Bingham's plans call for an 8 1/4" wedge. Mine will be made out of purple heart to match the rest of the bow. I at first planned on making a jig for this until I ran across an excellent post by Sixby on the Pirates of Archery web site.
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The Bow-Smyth: The riser
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Trials and errors in bow making. Bow building for apartment dwellers. View my complete profile. Wednesday, July 22, 2009. While not absolutely necessary, some power tools make this endeavor much easier. I say not absolutely necessary because there is one person that comes to mind that made a couple of fine take downs using a hand saw, hand drill and his only power tool was a sander. I am speaking of Mr. Hera in Taiwan and you can find one of his build alongs here. I then glued it all up and clammped it t...
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The Bow-Smyth: Laminations
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Trials and errors in bow making. Bow building for apartment dwellers. View my complete profile. Wednesday, July 22, 2009. Laminations of varied material make up the limbs. This is usually a combination of wood with an outer layer of fiberglass but the core can also use carbon or special foam. My laminations will include a tapered lamination of bamboo flooring, a parallel lamination of the same and black fiber glass for the back and belly. I'm sure those with a firm understanding of math and some nice sho...
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The Bow-Smyth: July 2009
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Trials and errors in bow making. Bow building for apartment dwellers. View my complete profile. Monday, July 27, 2009. Made a couple of tip wedges over the weekend. I had never heard of tip wedges before, until reading a post about power lams and tip wedges over at the Pirates of Archery. His response was that 62" is a good overall length for T/D's and that my concern with the draw length could be solved with the addition of tip wedges. These wedges, he said, should eliminate stacking to at least 30"...
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The Bow-Smyth: Tip wedges
http://thebowsmyth.blogspot.com/2009/07/tip-wedges.html
Trials and errors in bow making. Bow building for apartment dwellers. View my complete profile. Monday, July 27, 2009. Made a couple of tip wedges over the weekend. I had never heard of tip wedges before, until reading a post about power lams and tip wedges over at the Pirates of Archery. His response was that 62" is a good overall length for T/D's and that my concern with the draw length could be solved with the addition of tip wedges. These wedges, he said, should eliminate stacking to at least 30"...
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Links to suppliers | Build Your Own Bow
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Buffalo horn limb tip overlays build…. How to use SuperTiller build along. How to make a simple thickness sander…. May 3, 2010. These are companies that I have used myself and recommend. I will continue to add suppliers as I discover them. There are additional links located at the Pirates of Archery forum at… www.piratesofarchery.net. 8230; www.binghamprojects.com. Get your fire hose, hose plugs, and bow form hardware from here! Trad Materials-Fedora’s Archery Shop…. Thunderbird Traditional Archery….
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The Bow-Smyth: August 2009
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Trials and errors in bow making. Bow building for apartment dwellers. View my complete profile. Friday, August 7, 2009. Not sure what happened to all the pictures. I'll have to go back and add them back in. I think that photobucket has corrupted them. Ps Still waiting on the Smooth-on to glue this baby up. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
