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Title: couple of ELB's
Post by: Shaun on June 30, 2011, 02:50:00 PM

Making some bows for a fellow in MI that does Medieval archery (St Hubert's Rangers - Black Stag Bowmen) and wanted ELB's with full circle bend-in-the-handle bows. First one is osage 55 @ 28 and the second is yew with horn nocks 40 @ 28. Both about 70"

 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/shaunw/elb4.jpg)

 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/shaunw/elb3.jpg)

Osage

 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/shaunw/elb1.jpg)

Yew

 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/shaunw/elb2.jpg)

Title: Re: couple of ELB's
Post by: Buemaker on June 30, 2011, 03:10:00 PM

Good work, bending nicely. Bue--.

Title: Re: couple of ELB's
Post by: Jeff Smith on June 30, 2011, 03:21:00 PM

More pics. Please.

Title: Re: couple of ELB's
Post by: bigcountry on June 30, 2011, 03:23:00 PM

Man, I love ELB's.  I always wondered why more folks don't try osage.  

Pretty tillers

Title: Re: couple of ELB's
Post by: bigcountry on June 30, 2011, 03:24:00 PM

Is the osage round bellys?  What is the width of both?

Title: Re: couple of ELB's
Post by: Jeff Smith on June 30, 2011, 03:31:00 PM

Can you give more specs. I want to try one but haven't a clue on tillering or layout. Thanks. Beautiful bows by the way.
Jeff

Title: Re: couple of ELB's
Post by: Osagetree on June 30, 2011, 03:34:00 PM

Great job Shaun!

Title: Re: couple of ELB's
Post by: Hawken1911 on June 30, 2011, 03:45:00 PM

Beautiful bows! :thumbsup:  

 The Fellow in MI   ;)

Title: Re: couple of ELB's
Post by: 2treks on June 30, 2011, 04:36:00 PM

Looking good Shaun. I just got my Stillwater bow from Gene at comptons. 72" 55#@30" OSAGE with carmel colored horn knocks.Shot it this morning,BUTTAH I do like me a nice ELB. I have some ash and hackberry staves ready to go and am just waiting for the time to jump in. Soon man,soon!
Keep up the good work man.

Title: Re: couple of ELB's
Post by: okie64 on June 30, 2011, 05:37:00 PM

Those are a couple of nice bows! I love elb's and the way they bend. How does the osage shoot? I've done a couple from hickory but never tried an osage elb? You nailed the tiller on those.

Title: Re: couple of ELB's
Post by: Diamondback59 on June 30, 2011, 06:26:00 PM

nice shaun  well see ya in a couple weeks u gonna make mojam ? brock

Title: Re: couple of ELB's
Post by: Pat B on June 30, 2011, 08:10:00 PM

Beautiful full draw, arch of a circle bend. Very nicely done, Shaun.

Title: Re: couple of ELB's
Post by: Stiks-n-Strings on June 30, 2011, 09:39:00 PM

Nice looking bows Shaun! I guess I need to try one of those sometime. I been getting into the primitive stuff but I'll do an ELB sometime.

Title: Re: couple of ELB's
Post by: K.S.TRAPPER on June 30, 2011, 09:44:00 PM

Great looking bows Shaun!!  :thumbsup:  

Tracy

Title: Re: couple of ELB's
Post by: don s on June 30, 2011, 10:43:00 PM

really nice bows. i posted regarding ELBs just the other day and someone else did also. i'm glad you posted your pics. i've been wanting to do one and i learned something just from your pics. thankyou. don

Title: Re: couple of ELB's
Post by: Shaun on June 30, 2011, 11:29:00 PM

They are booth round belly and cross section from nearly round at the middle to slightly flattened and back to round at the tips. Something I learned over at PA is to keep the width to thickness ratio at least 8 to 5 to qualify as an ELB style limb.

If you look closely at the two full draw pics you can see the yew bow is slightly elliptical in tiller - a little flat spot in the arc at the middle. Did not want to take it farther into circle as it was at 40#. Booth sweet shooters with some hand shock from the bend in the handle, less with the yew because the wood is so light. I love the full circle arc on the osage bow - reminds me of the Maurice Thomson quote about he new moon.

Title: Re: couple of ELB's
Post by: KellyG on July 01, 2011, 12:23:00 AM

nice bows Shaun

Title: Re: couple of ELB's
Post by: don s on July 01, 2011, 10:32:00 AM

those are really well done. i'm assuming that they are both top limb positive on the tiller. can you tell me by how much? don