I vote yes for a part 3 100lbs bow build. If you think you have an idea of what may have caused the failure, there's only one way to know. You have to test your potential fix.
You're onto something with the EA40 on the backing. I just finished my 1st bamboo backed bow @57 lbs! Woo!!! But it was after breaking the first 3 before it. They all broke the same as yours. I learned that the bamboo outer skin/layer is the strongest for keeping it from splintering up. And I had been lightly sanding it, just to make it smoother. But Don't sand it at all! I believe it was allowing the splintering to come up. I also coated the backing with wood oil followed by a coat of lacker. Kept that bamboo from splitting like a champ!
Hello Kramer. I quite enjoy your videos and make bows myself. Though I haven't made a 100# bow, I have made an 80# bow that shoots very well. From my experience, when bamboo starts to lift like that, there are a few possibilities why. 1. The bamboo could have been too dry. Not sure what kind of bamboo you use, but Moso bamboo works best for bows. 2. There could have been a small dent there. Not that important for lighter bows, but very important for heavier bows. 3. Could have gone too deep when taking the skin off the bamboo. That outer bamboo layer under the skin is the stronger part of the bamboo. On a separate note, if you decide to attempt anther 100# bow, I would suggest horn for the tip overlays. The main reasons English Warbows, which were over 100 pounds, used cow horn tips is because the bowstring would cut into the wood but the bowstring wouldn't cut into horn. This is likely why your first tip overlay got cut and snapped off. Horn overlays will prevent that from happening again. Just thought I would offer some things I have experienced. I hope you don't mind. Keep up the videos, I love your energy in each of them.
Brother, you've brought so much joy into my life and the lives of my friends for whom I've built bows and gotten to start shooting these things. So great the way you film a tiller, and when they snap, I'm right there with you. Hurts my heart, but what an adventure. Just took my first real archery lesson from a pro and he was fascinated with how quiet my Ipe/Bamboo longbow shot. Thanks for the help. You were right by my side. So much joy. Keep spreading it.
whats the point of starting a project if you dont try and finish it, all you learn is to give up on the first failure. You have a theory on how to resolve the issue, so test it. Good luck my man and great vid as always
Keep going, don't give up. You set yourself a goal of making a 100 lb bow. Don't stop now. Like you said you can always learn from your failures. The next one will be better for it and so will you.
Yes make another! You will do better on the next one. You always seem to do your research, think about it, look at it from different angles and make the next one much better. That is what I like about the way you go about making bows. Keep up the good work.
YES. I want to see you try more. I was thinking that those arms were just getting too thin. Adding a layer of resin on the other side would make it stronger. Go for it!
I like how Kramer might ruin a bow, but recovers quickly and doesn't waste time pouting, but instead he gets back up and tries again. Good on you my man!!
Heart braking dude. When you invest so much time. But you learn so that's useful for the next one. Plus I'd imagine this next one will have more meaning to you because you'll have fewer doubts and the final bow will be boss.
Bamboo has such a ridiculous tensile strength, I highly doubt it failed because it was bending a little too much right there. My guess is that it was just a bad piece of bamboo.
Kramer, this needs to be a series even if it takes like 20 parts to make a 100 pound bow. Of course, if it does start to take a long time taking a break to make another kind of videos would be great for your own enjoyment. But i definetly want to see you make this bow happen.
Definetly should try... also, try to glue 2 or 3 very thin layers of bamboo instead of one large piece. Because thin stripes bend really good, so I think would be better.
at 100lbs+, are there any additional considerations to make when maintaining the string, or making the string? I noted that with this bowstring, it looks like you banded the end serving? or is this just for the tillering string? also with the tip overlay, would it be possible to pin it to prevent it from slipping, or does that cause the bow to crack?
1) Go use something like Virtualbow to design your profile. Doing it by eye and hand is fine to a point, but you haven't iterated this design very much yet and doing that virtually allows you to find unexpected limb designs for specific situations. 2) Use a longer overall length (lowers stress overall), wider limbs (wider limbs give free draw weight for the same level of material stress) and carefully optimise your limb width and thickness to distribute stress along the whole length of the bow. If you use mainly width to manage stress, then you'll naturally end up with something like a holmegaard bow (which makes sense, as they were made out of relatively terrible woods like elm and needed optimised profiles). If you use width and thickness, then you'll end up with something like a standard flatbow - thickening abruptly to the maximum width right after the handle, then staying constant until around 2/3 of the way down the limb before thinning to a fairly acute point. If you use mainly thickness to optimise, then you'll end up with something like an English Longbow. 3) Put in more deflex if you want to cheat a bit, as this substantially lowers the stress on the limbs and increases the draw weight the bow can take at full draw (at the cost of lower efficiency). Similarly, leave any reflex for the ends of the limbs, as the stress naturally falls off towards the end of the limb length. 4) Put in your handle profile at the start in order not to have a stress riser (any big, discontinuous changes in thickness are stress risers, and you're trying to stress the limbs equally along the whole length of the limbs). 5) Consider using a working handle as this gives you more length to distribute stress over. 6) Consider using better materials (bamboo/bamboo with a lightweight core, horn and sinew, lemonwood instead of Ipe etc.). Generally; you've been allowed to use relatively inefficient designs because your materials are good and your draw weights are substantially underneath what the materials are capable of. So you've been able to over and under-stress parts of the limbs to achieve various effects (higher speeds, lower handshock, gentle draw curves etc). For a really high draw-weight bow, however, you're going to want to forget that and instead carefully stress every part of the limb equally. If you've every wondered why high draw weight English longbows have the design they have (aside from the D-shape profile, which is mostly due to the material) then this is your answer.
I know it's a lot of work, but I think even you know you'll have to finish a 100 lb bow. Doesn't have to be now. Could be even cooler to come back to it in say a few years or even more. But you'll have to finish one so you can "stay shatterproof". :) Great video. Really enjoyed it, as always.
Thanks for explaining why you continued on after the first fiber lifted. If you had stopped, is that something that maybe epoxy could have stopped from breaking? Or beyond saving at that point?
Lol cant fault you there! Like you said, worth seeing where it would fail. Doing some brainstorming as I tiller in case mine starts to go on one of my laminations
Good to see how it fails at that point but I'd suggest taking a look at it's failures along the way as much as possible next time. I think you can learn more by seeing that first broken fiber and each that came after. I think another layer that protects those fibers from pulling up would have done it, or at least gotten you a lot closer. Keep it up!
Don't give up. Heavier bows have been made. There is another video of them shooting a traditional English war bow at a breast plate. I want to say it was 160 lb. He was talking about being able to shoot one that was 200 lb. He was a beast. Maybe a thicker but longer limb. Maybe a wider more tapered limb. Maybe soaking the back in an epoxy but if your going to do that you might as well reinforce it with some thing but that would lead you down the path of a modern fiberglass bow. I'm not sure that's what you're going for. It would however be a cool project to build a modern equivalent to a classic war bow and see how much you could improve the performance. Lee
Don't give-up! Keep building and trying until you achieve your 100lb bow! Just a thought; maybe some rawhide laminated over the top of the bamboo would help as well? Is there an unwritten law that says you can only laminate two materials? You probably wouldn't need to go the whole length of the bow with the rawhide, either.
I read that the Lakota Sioux made their bows out of Ash. They would hang their staves, near the top of the teepee, for several years, to air dry. Most likely Green Ash.
OK! You're one hard dude! I've broken a few self-bows in my life and, man, did it feel like my world crumbling down in front of me, every time! For you to say it's kind of fun...gotta give it to you! But, on the more constructive side of things: usually my resolution to not having enough material to support my "poundage needs" is to add more width to the limbs, while reducing thickness. After all, two 50lb bows together will make a 100lb bow, you just gotta put them together, or very close next to each other...
Bamboo backing, with a fiberglass drywall tape overlay. I do wonder if the epoxy is maybe not flexible enough. Is that the standard for gluing laminations together in a bow? Or is a high quality wood glue more commonly used? Keep it up? Success rarely happens on the first try! The next one will be better. Thank you for the time you put into these videos.
Try use bamboo betung for bow backing, have lot more strong bamboo than regular bamboo, In here, Indonesia we use bamboo petung for limbs as jemparingan bow (try search ) , no backed ,pure only bamboo betung, good luck 🍻
I could see it, I don't know if anyone else could. But that limb was completely out of balance from the other, which was bending deeper despite the shallow arc in the limb itself. That limb that broke was over stressed
I had crazy idea yesturday i was thinking of you! You should try and make a bow out of Lexan polycarbonate, it will be little expansive, but if you can find a scrap piece from somewhere that be sweet!
My current most powerful is 86lbs at 25 rawhide/ juniper short bow. Has a sudden stop and this terrifying squeak. Has been shot a few hundred times though. Couldn't get it to 100. I feel you.
id like to see bone or horn added to one for a more natural bow. especially if you render horn or hoof to try that for a natural glue? idk if it would hold however
Hey Kramer I can't see what the length of the bow is but I think its short length means that the stacking forces (string is pulling at 90' down on the bamboo and IPE) and at anything over 40 or 50 lbs it will destroy the knocks and the bow tips. Try again but I'm not sure you'll succeed. I only make bows up to 45-50lbs because I can't draw anything heavier than that. Each to their own but I don't understand warbow archers pulling 80-150lb bows with that doubled over terrible posture, unable to anchor properly. Love the vids!
Also ... ok, you have one limb tested out to 75 lbs, do you have another? What do you do with surviving single limbs? Can you carve a solid riser and bolt them in, or do you need to build limbs with that in mind from the start?
Have you got part 3 done yet?..... how long do we have to wait?.... yeah Kramer... we want another video of this bow... hopefully being completed..... we know you can get this baby done! and we want to see it! (Y)
I love your videos!!! Great work. Ha, I broke my first 3 ash longbows on the tillering jig! Just my opinion, but gorilla glue sucks! Stick with titebond 2! Looking forward to pt3!
Hey Kramer, love your videos - I have a quick question; what type of bamboo do you use with the ipe? Would love to try making one but don't want to use the wrong materials!
Since your end goal is a 100 pound bow, I wonder if using a longer one would be the better route? Seems like the 63-67 inch is ideal for most hunting weight bows for average height people. Maybe something in the 70-75" range would spread your bend out over a longer area giving less stress to each limb. Of course you'd have to make the limbs thicker too but that shouldn't be too big deal.
Although a hundred pound bow does sound like a lot of fun how many people are actually going to be able to shoot it or is it just going to be a conversation Piece. I think moving on to some other types of wood in a more usable poundage will be a more viable option and the fact that you'll be able to actually shoot it. Effectively you're trying to make a war bow which is anywhere from 75 to 150 lb. Any which way you go I'll still be watching from the Shadows to pick up tricks and tips from you so I can eventually build my own. Thank you for continuing to work on the channel
Well, my objective thought on failure is: "Each failure just makes the end result better". Think back from the stone age to now the human race failed so many times, that's why we got this far. Some of the greatest inventions were made in failure. I just wish I personally would not only think so, but I would also act like that way. For everything comes the right time :P I hope. Btw Thx for your videos it's fun to learn how a bow is made and see your progress in learning the limitation of matirerals, it teaches others to not give up and learning is time consumeing, i wish i would had this kinda videos instead of what i learned in school xD
There's no harm in trying, let's do it again.
Not a failure, you just found one way 100 lb draw bows aren't made. Your passion is contagious my man, keep up the good work!
Definitely contagious. I've started a bow for my daughter and myself.
I vote yes for a part 3 100lbs bow build. If you think you have an idea of what may have caused the failure, there's only one way to know. You have to test your potential fix.
Part 3 please. We need this bow!
Without failure there can be no success. Build it. 👍👍
Would like to see it completed.
You're onto something with the EA40 on the backing. I just finished my 1st bamboo backed bow @57 lbs! Woo!!! But it was after breaking the first 3 before it. They all broke the same as yours. I learned that the bamboo outer skin/layer is the strongest for keeping it from splintering up. And I had been lightly sanding it, just to make it smoother. But Don't sand it at all! I believe it was allowing the splintering to come up. I also coated the backing with wood oil followed by a coat of lacker. Kept that bamboo from splitting like a champ!
You're positive attitude is refreshing. Keep up the quality work and awesome videos. Well done.
Hello Kramer.
I quite enjoy your videos and make bows myself. Though I haven't made a 100# bow, I have made an 80# bow that shoots very well.
From my experience, when bamboo starts to lift like that, there are a few possibilities why.
1. The bamboo could have been too dry. Not sure what kind of bamboo you use, but Moso bamboo works best for bows.
2. There could have been a small dent there. Not that important for lighter bows, but very important for heavier bows.
3. Could have gone too deep when taking the skin off the bamboo. That outer bamboo layer under the skin is the stronger part of the bamboo.
On a separate note, if you decide to attempt anther 100# bow, I would suggest horn for the tip overlays. The main reasons English Warbows, which were over 100 pounds, used cow horn tips is because the bowstring would cut into the wood but the bowstring wouldn't cut into horn. This is likely why your first tip overlay got cut and snapped off. Horn overlays will prevent that from happening again.
Just thought I would offer some things I have experienced. I hope you don't mind.
Keep up the videos, I love your energy in each of them.
Brother, you've brought so much joy into my life and the lives of my friends for whom I've built bows and gotten to start shooting these things. So great the way you film a tiller, and when they snap, I'm right there with you. Hurts my heart, but what an adventure.
Just took my first real archery lesson from a pro and he was fascinated with how quiet my Ipe/Bamboo longbow shot. Thanks for the help. You were right by my side.
So much joy. Keep spreading it.
whats the point of starting a project if you dont try and finish it, all you learn is to give up on the first failure. You have a theory on how to resolve the issue, so test it. Good luck my man and great vid as always
Keep going, don't give up. You set yourself a goal of making a 100 lb bow. Don't stop now. Like you said you can always learn from your failures. The next one will be better for it and so will you.
Great that you also share when something goes else as planned. Of course you can’t stop as a bowyer you need to build a 100lbs bow. 🤤💪🏽
I want you to continue, I WANT to see you succeed :)
WE WANT PART 3!!!! I would really like seeing you come up with a 100lbs bow. Keep up the great work.
Yes make another! You will do better on the next one. You always seem to do your research, think about it, look at it from different angles and make the next one much better. That is what I like about the way you go about making bows. Keep up the good work.
NEVER GIVE UP!!! 100LB=100%AWESOME
YES. I want to see you try more. I was thinking that those arms were just getting too thin. Adding a layer of resin on the other side would make it stronger. Go for it!
Heck Yeah! Let's see a part three.
I'd definitely like to see a part 3.
I like how Kramer might ruin a bow, but recovers quickly and doesn't waste time pouting, but instead he gets back up and tries again. Good on you my man!!
Always a pleasure, great video!
I think it would be a great idea to continue. Maybe the next one will break at 96 pounds. Keep striving, it always gets better.
Keep going!
More !!! Mooore!!! Keep going.
Heart braking dude. When you invest so much time. But you learn so that's useful for the next one. Plus I'd imagine this next one will have more meaning to you because you'll have fewer doubts and the final bow will be boss.
I'd love to see you give it another go!
Bamboo has such a ridiculous tensile strength, I highly doubt it failed because it was bending a little too much right there. My guess is that it was just a bad piece of bamboo.
Exactly what I was thinking. Those fibres on the back looked like they just sheared off
Kramer, this needs to be a series even if it takes like 20 parts to make a 100 pound bow. Of course, if it does start to take a long time taking a break to make another kind of videos would be great for your own enjoyment. But i definetly want to see you make this bow happen.
Definetly should try... also, try to glue 2 or 3 very thin layers of bamboo instead of one large piece. Because thin stripes bend really good, so I think would be better.
Dooowit ! Make another one!
Go for it Kramer, 3rd time lucky 🤘
Yes! At the very least, I learn a lot from how you approach things when they go wrong.
Keep going, eventually you will succeed and after a while you can do it with your eyes closed, keep improving your craft!
that was awesome live to see you try for the 100lb bow
Yeah keep it going, that's a good theory never hurts to try it
at 100lbs+, are there any additional considerations to make when maintaining the string, or making the string? I noted that with this bowstring, it looks like you banded the end serving? or is this just for the tillering string?
also with the tip overlay, would it be possible to pin it to prevent it from slipping, or does that cause the bow to crack?
Yes please, I would love to see a 100 lb bow.
Not a fail just how we learn take care GOD BLESS. 👍🏼🏹🇺🇸
I screamed internally when I discovered this vid
1) Go use something like Virtualbow to design your profile. Doing it by eye and hand is fine to a point, but you haven't iterated this design very much yet and doing that virtually allows you to find unexpected limb designs for specific situations.
2) Use a longer overall length (lowers stress overall), wider limbs (wider limbs give free draw weight for the same level of material stress) and carefully optimise your limb width and thickness to distribute stress along the whole length of the bow. If you use mainly width to manage stress, then you'll naturally end up with something like a holmegaard bow (which makes sense, as they were made out of relatively terrible woods like elm and needed optimised profiles). If you use width and thickness, then you'll end up with something like a standard flatbow - thickening abruptly to the maximum width right after the handle, then staying constant until around 2/3 of the way down the limb before thinning to a fairly acute point. If you use mainly thickness to optimise, then you'll end up with something like an English Longbow.
3) Put in more deflex if you want to cheat a bit, as this substantially lowers the stress on the limbs and increases the draw weight the bow can take at full draw (at the cost of lower efficiency). Similarly, leave any reflex for the ends of the limbs, as the stress naturally falls off towards the end of the limb length.
4) Put in your handle profile at the start in order not to have a stress riser (any big, discontinuous changes in thickness are stress risers, and you're trying to stress the limbs equally along the whole length of the limbs).
5) Consider using a working handle as this gives you more length to distribute stress over.
6) Consider using better materials (bamboo/bamboo with a lightweight core, horn and sinew, lemonwood instead of Ipe etc.).
Generally; you've been allowed to use relatively inefficient designs because your materials are good and your draw weights are substantially underneath what the materials are capable of. So you've been able to over and under-stress parts of the limbs to achieve various effects (higher speeds, lower handshock, gentle draw curves etc).
For a really high draw-weight bow, however, you're going to want to forget that and instead carefully stress every part of the limb equally. If you've every wondered why high draw weight English longbows have the design they have (aside from the D-shape profile, which is mostly due to the material) then this is your answer.
yea keep trying dont give up now
im building something similar do you find the tip overlays break the bamboo backing?
Yes try again. Do you think maybe adding a middle layer of fiberglass tape may also help? Not sure of it would even be possible just a thought.
Looking forward to part 3....
I know it's a lot of work, but I think even you know you'll have to finish a 100 lb bow. Doesn't have to be now. Could be even cooler to come back to it in say a few years or even more. But you'll have to finish one so you can "stay shatterproof". :) Great video. Really enjoyed it, as always.
Heck yeah I want to see it.
never know unless we try keep going I'm with and for you. never shot a arrow in my life and I'm busy with my first riser
Thanks for explaining why you continued on after the first fiber lifted. If you had stopped, is that something that maybe epoxy could have stopped from breaking? Or beyond saving at that point?
Lol cant fault you there! Like you said, worth seeing where it would fail. Doing some brainstorming as I tiller in case mine starts to go on one of my laminations
Good to see how it fails at that point but I'd suggest taking a look at it's failures along the way as much as possible next time. I think you can learn more by seeing that first broken fiber and each that came after.
I think another layer that protects those fibers from pulling up would have done it, or at least gotten you a lot closer. Keep it up!
As you no moisture content comes into play to a break. Respect your skills
Don't give up. Heavier bows have been made. There is another video of them shooting a traditional English war bow at a breast plate. I want to say it was 160 lb. He was talking about being able to shoot one that was 200 lb. He was a beast.
Maybe a thicker but longer limb.
Maybe a wider more tapered limb.
Maybe soaking the back in an epoxy but if your going to do that you might as well reinforce it with some thing but that would lead you down the path of a modern fiberglass bow. I'm not sure that's what you're going for. It would however be a cool project to build a modern equivalent to a classic war bow and see how much you could improve the performance.
Lee
Don't give-up! Keep building and trying until you achieve your 100lb bow! Just a thought; maybe some rawhide laminated over the top of the bamboo would help as well? Is there an unwritten law that says you can only laminate two materials? You probably wouldn't need to go the whole length of the bow with the rawhide, either.
#3? Yes pls
BUILD THAT BOW!!!!!!! 100 pounds is an achievement!!
I read that the Lakota Sioux made their bows out of Ash. They would hang their staves, near the top of the teepee, for several years, to air dry. Most likely Green Ash.
Kramer keep going mate ...
OK! You're one hard dude! I've broken a few self-bows in my life and, man, did it feel like my world crumbling down in front of me, every time! For you to say it's kind of fun...gotta give it to you! But, on the more constructive side of things: usually my resolution to not having enough material to support my "poundage needs" is to add more width to the limbs, while reducing thickness. After all, two 50lb bows together will make a 100lb bow, you just gotta put them together, or very close next to each other...
Yeah... go for it
Bamboo backing, with a fiberglass drywall tape overlay. I do wonder if the epoxy is maybe not flexible enough. Is that the standard for gluing laminations together in a bow? Or is a high quality wood glue more commonly used? Keep it up? Success rarely happens on the first try! The next one will be better. Thank you for the time you put into these videos.
If there was ever such a thing as a lucky break at 2:00 that would be it. ...
Until it wasn’t. Ouch! Now! I’m invested. When is part 3?
Practice makes perfect brother
Try use bamboo betung for bow backing, have lot more strong bamboo than regular bamboo,
In here, Indonesia we use bamboo petung for limbs as jemparingan bow (try search ) , no backed ,pure only bamboo betung, good luck 🍻
I heard speed drying bamboo damages it. Maybe get some already seasoned bamboo from Jaap Koppedrayer?
I could see it, I don't know if anyone else could. But that limb was completely out of balance from the other, which was bending deeper despite the shallow arc in the limb itself. That limb that broke was over stressed
Yea build it again love learning with you think you are right about the epoxy
I had crazy idea yesturday i was thinking of you! You should try and make a bow out of Lexan polycarbonate, it will be little expansive, but if you can find a scrap piece from somewhere that be sweet!
My current most powerful is 86lbs at 25 rawhide/ juniper short bow. Has a sudden stop and this terrifying squeak. Has been shot a few hundred times though.
Couldn't get it to 100. I feel you.
I enjoy watching. Maybe make the bow wider to spread the load?
I feel with you, bro.
id like to see bone or horn added to one for a more natural bow. especially if you render horn or hoof to try that for a natural glue? idk if it would hold however
Hey Kramer
I can't see what the length of the bow is but I think its short length means that the stacking forces (string is pulling at 90' down on the bamboo and IPE) and at anything over 40 or 50 lbs it will destroy the knocks and the bow tips. Try again but I'm not sure you'll succeed. I only make bows up to 45-50lbs because I can't draw anything heavier than that. Each to their own but I don't understand warbow archers pulling 80-150lb bows with that doubled over terrible posture, unable to anchor properly. Love the vids!
Hope u will succeed next time. Stay shatterproof ;) Greetz from overseas :)
Also ... ok, you have one limb tested out to 75 lbs, do you have another? What do you do with surviving single limbs? Can you carve a solid riser and bolt them in, or do you need to build limbs with that in mind from the start?
I would love to see the completion.
Have you got part 3 done yet?..... how long do we have to wait?.... yeah Kramer... we want another video of this bow... hopefully being completed..... we know you can get this baby done! and we want to see it! (Y)
Go man go
I love your videos!!! Great work.
Ha, I broke my first 3 ash longbows on the tillering jig!
Just my opinion, but gorilla glue sucks! Stick with titebond 2!
Looking forward to pt3!
That was an interesting result. I would be interested to see if the epoxy is an adequate strengthener for a bamboo backing.
Hii sir I just wan to know that which string should I use to make a bow ... Can I use paracord string... Huge fan sir plz reply sir....
Lets do it. Be awesome to see it work and what doesnt work to make a 100 pound bow
Yew can do it!!! Recently saw a video called "Simon Stanley shooting 150lb yew warbow at The Longbow Shop"
yes part 3
Hey Kramer, love your videos - I have a quick question; what type of bamboo do you use with the ipe? Would love to try making one but don't want to use the wrong materials!
Since your end goal is a 100 pound bow, I wonder if using a longer one would be the better route? Seems like the 63-67 inch is ideal for most hunting weight bows for average height people. Maybe something in the 70-75" range would spread your bend out over a longer area giving less stress to each limb. Of course you'd have to make the limbs thicker too but that shouldn't be too big deal.
Yep... definitely go for 3
I need to see it!
That’s gonna be my life motto
Children are like TH-cam videos, there unpredictable
There are 100 plus pound bows in existence in the world. You can and should do this. Maybe some sort of sinew like backing?
Part 3 please!!!
Love your vids!
I think I must agree from experience that breaking a bow is almost as fun as hitting a bull's eye.
Although a hundred pound bow does sound like a lot of fun how many people are actually going to be able to shoot it or is it just going to be a conversation Piece. I think moving on to some other types of wood in a more usable poundage will be a more viable option and the fact that you'll be able to actually shoot it. Effectively you're trying to make a war bow which is anywhere from 75 to 150 lb. Any which way you go I'll still be watching from the Shadows to pick up tricks and tips from you so I can eventually build my own. Thank you for continuing to work on the channel
Mine broke last week when stringing. Back to work!
What is the best wood to use as a beginner Bow smith?
Your metal clamp jaws are crushing wood fibres
Yes carry on! You could do a new series, called Will it Blow? :-)
Well, my objective thought on failure is: "Each failure just makes the end result better".
Think back from the stone age to now the human race failed so many times, that's why we got this far.
Some of the greatest inventions were made in failure.
I just wish I personally would not only think so, but I would also act like that way.
For everything comes the right time :P I hope.
Btw Thx for your videos it's fun to learn how a bow is made and see your progress in learning the limitation of matirerals, it teaches others to not give up and learning is time consumeing, i wish i would had this kinda videos instead of what i learned in school xD
awsome dude .... smash it up ....but would really like to see the 100 pounder :):) good effort :)
That was close!