New flight bow core

mikekeswick · Post by **mikekeswick** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:56 am

This is a picture of the first core off my new flight bow form. I'm looking for some critic on it's shape. What do you think? Any alterations? I think that maybe the sals are too reflexed. If I glued it up 'as is' it would be 43 inch ntn. This core is made from rowan (mountain ash / Sorbus aucuparia). It is a wood I hadn't really given a second thought as a suitable core wood. It is tough, hard with an interlocking grain, diffuse porous and appears to steam bend well. It's very tough to find a piece that isn't twisted and it has tiny pin knots that don't show in the bark.

KenH · Post by **KenH** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 11:17 am

I'll say it "seems to stem bend well". Beautifully done limbs, my friend! Is this a Keswick design, or modelled after an historic bow (Turkish perhaps?)?

I don't recall seeing that T-section handle design with the limbs butted in. Or are those V splices I'm seeing from the side?

mikekeswick · Post by **mikekeswick** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:24 pm

Thanks Ken.
The limbs are v-spliced as normal. The handle is hornbeam.
I was trying to copy the shape of a generic Turkish flight bow. Purposefully not going very short with a new (to me)wood.
I've decided to glue it up and am just doing the sizing.
If I can get a flight bow to hold together I am hoping to get to the Salt Flats flight shoot in September.