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Title: New wood Takedown
Post by: Wolftrail on April 25, 2015, 12:25:00 PM

67" NTN probably around    38#.  It draws very smooth as the limbs are 31" long with a 16" riser. Riser is maple, white oak and yew accents. Limbs are 3 lams of maple backed with linen.  I used 1 tapered 20" lam on the back.  I have 2 sets of limbs for this riser.  Took about 1/4" of set.  Sorry for the bad photo quality.


   (http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu250/dynolude/mapletakedown.jpg)

   (http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu250/dynolude/drawpic.jpg)

 (http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu250/dynolude/bowtips.jpg)
 
 (http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu250/dynolude/fencesht.jpg)

   (http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu250/dynolude/grondsht.jpg)

   (http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu250/dynolude/takedown-bench.jpg)

Title: Re: New wood Takedown
Post by: LittleBen on April 25, 2015, 01:32:00 PM

Very cool. Nice work.

Title: Re: New wood Takedown
Post by: Wolftrail on April 25, 2015, 05:13:00 PM

Thx Ben, I'm cutting all my lams now at over 1 7/8" that way my finished bows will be a full 1 3/4" instead of 1 1/2 - 1 5/8".  These limbs are 1 1/2"

Title: Re: New wood Takedown
Post by: Pago on April 25, 2015, 05:14:00 PM

Beautiful, your construction is fascinating.  I would like to do something similar someday.  Any construction tips you would like to share would be of great interest.

Title: Re: New wood Takedown
Post by: stretch2 on April 26, 2015, 04:40:00 AM

looks great wood info would be cool to know

Title: Re: New wood Takedown
Post by: Wolftrail on April 26, 2015, 08:01:00 PM

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Originally posted by stretch2:
looks great wood info would be cool to know

Are you talking about specs. The limbs are 3 lams sugar maple. Riser maple and white oak.  1 5/8" wide at the fades, limbs 31" long .....riser 16" and 7dg pads.