Any New Bows??

[POINTY STICKS]

AM I've been trying to get a working bow for thwe last year. No luck. I am carving on a piece of yellow birch which i hope to someday shoot an arrow off of but not sure when. I'd like to see the master at work, pick something pretty.

Maybe sometime you could also do a laminate bow build along.

I hope to sometime in the next couple of weks post some pictures of something I'm expecting in the mail. I'll post the whole story then as well.

[alpo]

yellow birch was my favorite CATASTROPHIC failure to date....big BANG, multiple projectile fragmentation.....and right up to that moment I thought it was going to be my best shooter. DOH

I'll play though, I have a few hornbeam staves ready to go.

I also have a couple of new drinking buddies who are very interested it making some bows, one of them has a real wood working shop too, with all them big power tools.

[archeryman57]

Yellow birch should be one of the better woods next to ash for starters. A clean stick of hornbeam is, IMO, a step up for stave material. White elm is another possibility. With the staves that I have here, apple, osage, yew, vine maple,elm, birch, service berry and some more exotics, I still need to decide which to begin with. The elm is calling me the loudest.
I am cleaning up the shop from my latest project and plan to get started on a bow soon after.
Alpo, as you have access to power tools(UMPH, UMPH) then let us help get you started. Hornbeam is a nice choice. What length is the stave that you have to work with.

[alpo]

I have a few hornbeam staves to choose from, but the one I have started taking the bark off of is about 60" long x 2" wide....i think, I'll re-measure get back to ya.
I have several possibly useless ash staves also, as I cut them before knowing what to look for in the ring count, they are easy to work with, but take on excessive set & don't have much 'zip' in them.....so they might just turn out to be well seasoned shop kindling.

[ARROW SLINGER]

I can put something together on that 63 year old Yew Billet Stave I got from Peter at the Bunny hunt, It's getting a chop, cut, rebuild into something that will hopefully sling an arrow someday. A bit of creative re-engineering involved but it's already been started.