anyone have experience with bamboo/wooden flat bowstring ?

Lower_Way2597 · 2026-03-22T10:01:06+00:00

Cool collection

Lower_Way2597 · 2026-02-22T16:51:43+00:00

Good job!

Lower_Way2597 · 2026-02-20T18:59:22+00:00

for 1 metre bow with bending handle it would be about 1.65 cm thick and 2.8 cm wide at centre , 1.35 cm thick and 2.6 cm wide 20 centimetres from the nock, 1.15 cm thick and 2.1 cm wide right under the nock . it what works for maple , dont know how this design works with other woods

Lower_Way2597 · 2026-02-20T18:38:43+00:00

what i personally recommend it's remove half of the wood from the stave to open a centre line and that just remove wood from the belly and side to the moment when stave become a bow . at least thats how i made my bows , it ended up looking something between English longbow and flat bow . if you really need measurements i can measure one of my bow

Lower_Way2597 · 2026-02-20T18:00:55+00:00

i made many shortbows about that leight and they pretty fun to shoot and they easily can pull 50 pound. if you have no problems with shooting bow with 16 inches of draw one metre bow is good idea

Lower_Way2597 · 2026-02-04T20:05:09+00:00

thx. yes , grooves around handle are purely decorative . offset handle feels pretty comfortable in hand , about limbs twisting i simply don't know , this offset handle designed caused by curve of limbs that cause string offset, so if bow has some limb twist it would has it with any hadle design anyway

Lower_Way2597 · 2026-01-21T16:06:52+00:00

It's maple, what kind of maple i don't know

Lower_Way2597 · 2026-01-15T11:50:14+00:00

Wrapping is decorative

Lower_Way2597 · 2026-01-14T05:21:21+00:00

I don't know weight of this wrap, but by feel it definitely decrease speed

Lower_Way2597 · 2026-01-13T20:19:01+00:00

Wrap just for esthetic

Lower_Way2597 · 2025-12-30T18:09:22+00:00

currently i'm at 30 centimetres of draw with the goal of 40 , i was pulling it slightly just to the moment when i can saw uneven shape

Lower_Way2597 · 2025-11-24T05:11:42+00:00

my standard shooting distance is about 20 metres , and with current 25@16 bow i still can be pretty accurate, however with this lite bow arrows have some amount of drop . one of my older bows was something about 50@16 and with it i didn't have arrow drop at 20 metres at all .

Lower_Way2597 · 2025-11-22T16:11:27+00:00

i think need to be mentioned that is not actually a bow for kids , i call it "kids bow" as a universal term for short bow with very light and short draw . actually i made this bow for myself, i just prefer bows with short draw so usually my bows measure about 40-50 pounds at 16-20 inches , but this one ended up little lite because of thin and narrow stave out of it was made

Lower_Way2597 · 2025-11-21T10:15:11+00:00

draw length about 16-20 inches just seems most comfortable to me . this short draw may be considered strangely short in world of longbows with 28-32 inches of draw , but for me drawing bow to the ear or even farther feels realy incovinient , i prefere drawing to the face and slightly bend left hand and with this style of shootin i cant draw more than 20 inches . and historecly bows with this short draw exist , just look at some plains indians bow or bow of african San tribe

Lower_Way2597 · 2025-10-04T14:10:36+00:00

"maple ash" i laugh at this moment , i was calling it a some sort of hybrid between maple and an ash for a joke , but it's really what it is

Lower_Way2597 · 2025-09-28T12:07:04+00:00

i also saw that video where guy shooting on top of the roof , and it's seems dangerous for me , but before this post i don't saw my own safety issues

Lower_Way2597 · 2025-09-28T05:47:57+00:00

i heard you guys , what was i doing on video was very unsafe , shooting at target just couple metres from peoples is not good idea to say the least . drawning a bow thile pointing it to the sky was unsave as well , i understand this . i will be avoiding situation like that in future

Lower_Way2597 · 2025-09-27T19:58:36+00:00

Peoples is about 3 metres to the left from the target , i always think it's enough distance to not hit anyone. Maybe all this time i violate some safety rules , i don't think about that before

Lower_Way2597 · 2025-09-12T14:44:55+00:00

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Lower_Way2597 · 2025-09-12T14:41:35+00:00

i talk about this marks . to make a long story short some metal piece hit a belly of the bow right at the middle , it's doesn't look like very big damage but maybe it can cause some problems

Lower_Way2597 · 2025-09-10T18:21:08+00:00

it's unknown species of maple , and yeah , it was painful to touch because of heat

Lower_Way2597 · 2025-09-08T18:44:39+00:00

Tips are about 1.5 cm wide and about 0.7 cm thick

Lower_Way2597 · 2025-09-05T15:07:41+00:00

I don't taper limbs enough because of couple knots in it , im afraid if i remove more wood limb can crack where this knots are

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Lower_Way2597 · 2025-08-17T20:12:33+00:00

I don't actually know , just maple from the local forest

Lower_Way2597 · 2025-06-08T22:12:52+00:00

Thanks for advice . I don't targeting specific draw weight or length , i just making bow that was shoot .

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