Wood limbed compound
Has anyone seen or heard of a wooden compound bow. I've had the idea to try it out...don't care of it wasnt fast. Maybe even make wooden cams lol.
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I read in his book that Glenn St. Charles had his son make one for him because it was getting hard for him to use a regular flatbow/longbow. I think it was actually pretty close in efficiency to an...
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this is quite amazing bit of workmanship though not strictly PP material......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01bmSvkC4qE&feature=related
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Compound limbs don't have more than a few inches of limb travel...the cams should be the hardest part
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I went a Googling and found this reference about a 1400s Medieval compound. May be more info out there, but have a look at this.http://www.archers-review...medieval-compound-24028-This may be an April...
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On the medieval compound I don't see where the energy would be stored.
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Here is a link to the bodger's muddle. The muddle (cams) and pulleys move a lot with very little deflection in the bow limbs. This yields a long rate of travel on the return. To be honest, the muddle...
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excuse the crappy paint picture lol. But here is an idea I had just now.
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There was a PP discussion that I googled into. It shows a bow made using the ancient ballista as a guide. Unfortunately, the photo that I followed to the link is no longer there, but the info that is...
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I understand a ballista stores torsional energy. In my idea of a wood compound bow is that the levers turn the cams...in which simply pulls the bow into a higher brace height as draw is increased....
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Just trying to stimulate the grey cells and give you some ideas.Gary
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alls good thank you gary...I'm a thinker. I always have ideas popping up in my head...I just never take note of them or write them down. I do want to build a ballista type machine one day.
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Gary, The link you posted shows Roy Palmer, an bowyer here in Kent, England. He did actually make an all wood wheely compund bow, just to prove it could be done. I'm not sure how well it worked, but...
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Thank you Mark.Is there any veracity to the archaeological find that led to the Roy Palmer compound? Are there any links that you could provide? I have googled and thus far have been unable to find...
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Wasnt there a guy on the laminated bow forum that made and posted one a few years back?
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I found this in an older post as I went searching based on Fundin's recollection of an earlier post. There's still more to to search through, (maybe more in past years) but this is a really good...
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Gary, I chatted with Roy Palmer about this a few years back. I got the impression that he did it for a laugh, just see if it could be done. The story you refer to came out as an April 1st prank. To my...
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Thanks Mark. That's probably why I could find no reference to an archaeological find at Sussex and why one of the posters on another forum called it an April 1 joke.Did you or have you heard of his...
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