Built a couple of takedown longbows

[WTK]

Been busy trying to get these done so I can take them and give them to a couple of friends when I head up to Nebraska to go hunting next month.
Both are 63" n2n one is 47+ lbs and the other 51+ lbs.



Here's the FD curves
The owner of 51+ pounder has a 29" draw length. I screwed up on these by forgetting I needed to shorten the power lam by 2.5 inches so they start gaining weight too soon. :-\

The owner of the 47+ pounder has a 30" draw length.

The unstrung profile

[WTK]

I finished a 58" belly mounted longbow on a 13" riser for myself. The particulars; 58" nock to nock, 46.8# at 28", 7" brace height, 13" belly mount riser. There are two parallels and a .003" per inch taper, the limb pad angle is 9 degrees, no power lams or tip wedges. The wedges are .275" thick to the end of the riser then have a taper at 5 degrees and the tapered portion extends 5 3/8" past the riser on each end. Its turned out ok for the prototype and I can see things I'll change on the next one. The limbs are double bolted with one locator pin. I like how it shoots and it will work great in my popup blind and my 28 1/2" draw length.

[bassmatt72]

Sweet!!!! I haven't been able to get out in my shop for a long time because of work.

[chackworth3]

Those look good!

[WTK]

I had modified an earlier design when I built the first two and guessed at the lam thickness. Ended up way heavier than my scale would read. So had to make a new set of limbs but I couldn't just let these go to waste. I sanded the width down to 1" and put them on an old 17" riser with a 9 degree pad angle. She ended up 64" nock to nock and 67# at 28". Smokes my 675 grain arrows at 188 fps.
I'm going to have to hide this thing before I hurt myself trying to shoot it. No pictures as I haven't finished it and don't know if I will but I do need to make myself one at a decent weight.
Here's the FD curve and chrono results.

[RTC]

Wow....Nice

[SamHarper]

They are pretty.

[trad"Doc"53]

Sweet looking bows!

[Loreva13]

Good looking bows!

[Niko]

Nice

[Bisch]

Good work!

Bisch

[boomer453]

where's the takedown bolts? good looking design.

[WTK]

Boomer the bolts come in from the belly side of the riser and screw into T-nuts mounted in the limbs. If you look at the riser on the riser with belly mount limbs you'll see the holes for the limb bolts. I'm working on a screw in plug to cover the holes. The belly mount bow uses 2 bolts per limb while the back mount uses 1 per limb.
I tried a 605 gr arrow withe 67# limbs and got a 6 shot average of 199 fps. But sure is hard on the shoulders trying to shoot that much weight.

[boomer453]

i've never seen one like that-if no one else is using a system like that you may want to look at filing for a patent.

[SwampGhost]

Fine work Sir!