Thoughts on limb material
12-11-2003, 08:51 PM
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Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Goose Creek SC
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RE: Thoughts on limb material
Chad,
How about a reverse tapered core? Does Marc use them with his recurves?
Zelazny,
I had two different longbows built by the same bowyer. One had bamboo limbs, the other had walnut core with yew lams and carbon over the belly side yew lam with black glass over it and clear glass over the back side yew lam. The bamboo limbed bow was 53#@28" and the other was 48#@28". Shooting the very same cedar arrow I got 150 fps through the chrony with the bamboo limbed bow and 164 fps with the other bow. Additionally, the walnut/yew/carbon limbed bow was much smoother, was absolutely dead in the hand and was much quieter than the bamboo limbed bow.
In the right designed bow, bamboo might be a great limb material. But in the wrong design it can be just another also ran material as it was with the Black Thunder longbow.
Bill
How about a reverse tapered core? Does Marc use them with his recurves?
Zelazny,
I had two different longbows built by the same bowyer. One had bamboo limbs, the other had walnut core with yew lams and carbon over the belly side yew lam with black glass over it and clear glass over the back side yew lam. The bamboo limbed bow was 53#@28" and the other was 48#@28". Shooting the very same cedar arrow I got 150 fps through the chrony with the bamboo limbed bow and 164 fps with the other bow. Additionally, the walnut/yew/carbon limbed bow was much smoother, was absolutely dead in the hand and was much quieter than the bamboo limbed bow.
In the right designed bow, bamboo might be a great limb material. But in the wrong design it can be just another also ran material as it was with the Black Thunder longbow.
Bill
