proportions
I was wondering about bow proportions. If I make a (for simplicity) a D bow exactly 1/2 the size of that six foot elm one I have, what will the poundage of that small bow be? It would have a 14" draw...
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Hellfire, if you weighed the mass of the small bow I think that the ratio of mass might predict your bow weight , The small bow might weigh something like 4 oz where the big bow weighed say 18 os, so...
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I have wondered about this as well, but never worked it out, so here goes.... A little math and half scale computed bow yeild the following interesting answers to the question of how a model bow...
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Thanks for the info. This question really bugged me for a while, I kind of think it would be less time consuming to make a very small bow, test it with half-arrows, and then build a larger version....
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i draw those pics with skill, it is hard to replicate the bending of a bow , i just guess on howmuch the limb will shorten durring the draw, i know how far it will bend tip to handle( always 1/2...
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I once wrote down a D bow on a piece of graph paper. I used a compass for arc-of-circle tillering and kind of found out that a bow has to shorten approx. 6% in length to stack. I was surprised that...
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