Transitional avoids lines and blurring.  No need to get use to them when you are shooting.

There used to be a lot of hunting threads about caribou during the early days of tragang. However, they disappeared for a while as the migration changed or something. Anyhow, it's good to hear a caribou thread start.

I wish you the best of luck. And keep us posted on who you find to take you hunting as I would love to do that one day.

Welcome back! 

Quote from: Crooked Stic on January 29, 2026, 08:12:13 PMBowyering is weird sometimes 

Amen brutha..... Amen.

No animals were harmed during week two.  Smoking Joe said the weather was terrible and the wind was very swirly. You said you couldn't close in on a stalk for the wind busting you.

Quote from: mmattockx on January 29, 2026, 10:08:17 PM

Quote from: harry 62 on January 28, 2026, 05:36:24 PMwhat do you guys think about osage for a core wood?

I'd save the osage for self bows, it is outstanding for that use and somewhat wasted on FG bows.

Quote from: Kirkll on January 28, 2026, 09:41:28 PMI built quite a few years ago using old growth CVG douglas fir that held up fine, but that was some rare stock that was originally milled in the early 1900's and very tight vertical grain. I don't think you cab even buy that quality anymore. No more old growth fir hitting the mills.

That old fir was really something, wasn't it? We have a 1903 farm house on our property that was built with fir 2x4's (REAL 2x4's) for the framing. The grain on that wood is so straight and clean, with super tight rings it is just amazing. I definitely don't see anything like that in a lumber supplier these days.


Mark

i got a good stash of that old growth fir years ago remodeling old turn of the century houses. its incredible material that cannot be found in lumber yards anymore. i still have a bit of it on my shelves. the bows I built using it were incredibly high in performance.

If you stick with an .001 taper rate on RC limbs you will have better luck with torsional stability. On bow limbs under 40 pounds you might want to stay with parallel lams (No taper ) until you get it down. The over all shape of your limb coming out of the form is going to dictate where the limbs bend, and where they store energy depending on wedge length and fade location.

Where the optimal tip notch location is, and limb pad angle is all part of it too. designing a good static tip RC is one hell of a rabbit hole... Have fun, and be patient. take a close look at the shapes of other nice RC limbs to get an idea were to start.   have fun!

Best bow I have ever had, I last contacted him via email about 2010 or so and he was done building bows.

Looked at my Ironwood PLX I had made for me, date is 2-03!