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Main Boards => The Bowyer's Bench => Topic started by: okie64 on December 30, 2010, 07:36:00 PM
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(http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee503/Jamey_Burkhart/178.jpg)
(http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee503/Jamey_Burkhart/179.jpg) (http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee503/Jamey_Burkhart/180.jpg) (http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee503/Jamey_Burkhart/181.jpg) I made these two bows from a board i got off a deck while remodeling a womans house. One of em is 50# and the other is around 65#. The small one is a lot more fun to shoot. The 50# is an inch wide out to midlimb and then tapers to 5/16 tips. I had to make them skinnier than i like due to layin em out around screw holes. But they turned out pretty good.
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Who can pass up twins even if one is a little heaver than the other. :) they look great. What is Beefwood?
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I think its a tropical wood kinda like ipe. It may be bloodwood. I dont really know.Its really dense wood though. It was so heavy I figured it would surely make a decent bow. Backed em just to be on the safe side.
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well it seems to have worked. How may arrows you put thru em so far.
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beef wood is actually bullet wood or bolivn redwood also goes by the name marsudda dunno if i spelled it right is hard as heck i think a bit harder than ipe it make s real fast bow brock
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probably 200 on the small one and only 40-50 arrows onthe heavy one. They both have around an inch of set right after unstringing. I didnt glue in any reflex but probably should have. I just didnt know that much about the wood.
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Well it looks great and if you have any more of it you can play around now you have a couple out of it.
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The tiller looks perfect and the bows are sharp.
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So are beefwood and bloodwood the same thing? Like i said i got it from a deck that the lady said she had built around 15 years ago. The wood was real gray from weathering i guess until i planed it down. Iwas kinda worried it wouldnt work being outside for that long.
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Originally posted by Roy from Pa:
The tiller looks perfect and the bows are sharp.
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oakie no there not the same thing it is relley massernduba i checked the spelling again and it is normally called brizlian redwood it is just a tad harder then ipe is i know it s hard as heck to cut on my table saw but this stuff makes smokin fast bows espically if ya get ur tip s down to like 1/4 blood wood isnt near as hard as this stuff is brock
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Thanks Brock. I really was just wantin to call em bloodwood cause I thought it sounded cooler. The first bow i attempted with it exploded during tillering. I had a ten inch handle glued on it and i think the limbs were just too narrow for all that stress. These are the first bows I hasve made in this style(ELB,bendy handle). I thought tillering would be easier on this style but it really wasnt. They do shoot very hard though.
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oakie the few i have made i made em the same as a ipe /boo bow i had no plms with it, im wanting to saw some thin lams and try making a r / d style out of it iv got a bunch of it man these boards are heavey so i am fixing to mess around with it a bit and see what can be done with it, and just exoermint a bit it s easey to find at local decking dealers but not cheap but from what im seeing so far it needs to be slender and thin just like ipe brock
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I wish I had some more of it to play with. Might try to get some at the local lumberyard. Have to admit it really was hard to work though. I made a hickory backed purpleheart bow for my son and that is the only other wood I've worked with that compares to this stuff in hardness.