Assyrian Bow Improved Pt1

Once it was done, I immediately fell in love with my all-bamboo Assyrian bow. There were just a few minor improvements that needed to be made - starting with the draw weight. So that's what we're going to to do! with a few tweaks in design and construction, the intent is to put together a hard-hitting more durable version than the first. Follow along with me as we improve on this bow.
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[@musaadfelton3909]

Yesssss I've been waiting for a new video 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁 best bamboo bow making education ever

[@meadowlarkadventuregear]

Thank you for watching! Hope it was worth the wait!

[@musaadfelton3909]

@@meadowlarkadventuregear definitely 💪

[@nadavyasharhochman3913]

I was waiting for a redo on this bow! I would maybe consider thickening the core by a milimeter or two or to make the bamboo the core of the bow and sandwich it betwin two pieces of wood. it would make the tillering hell of alot easyer. exited to see how this build goes.

[@meadowlarkadventuregear]

@@nadavyasharhochman3913 I like the suggestions! Thanks for watching - hope you enjoy the build!

[@bienyamientoefy1923]

greetings to you sir and everyone.i was wondering when will the next bow build lesson commence.this lesson looks very exiting sir.that thin piece of oak in the centre does a lot of difference as how i experienced 2 weeks ago when building a bow.thanks you for our next lesson sir.looking forward for the continuation🙂

[@meadowlarkadventuregear]

@@bienyamientoefy1923 Hello old friend!!! I’m hoping to have the next one up by next weekend… it’s been a very busy couple weeks at the bills-paying job.

[@DironMc]

Yeaaay another bow build!😊😊😊😊

[@meadowlarkadventuregear]

My thoughts exactly!!! 😃

[@knolltop314]

That weapon design is sooo sexy! I'd lay awake at night mulling assembly tactics. 🤣

[@meadowlarkadventuregear]

@@knolltop314 I spend way more time thinking about those things than actually doing them! And I really like this design too!!!

[@superdav95]

looking forward to this build. love your channel! Ive made a few of these boo backed and bellied bows and they are surprising performers. I love your tip on the heat treating the boo strip before getting to desired thickness. your absolutely correct. it swells and loses its flatness. Lots of trial and error in building these kind of bows and folks likely don't appreciate how much is involved. you make it look easy. do you stagger your nodes? and will you file down the belly nodes on the belly? Ive done it both ways and didn't see much difference in performance. Have you tried heat treating the back boo strip as well? I've done back and belly heat treating with good results when it dosent blow up. lol. Ive had a failure in finding that happy medium of slightly milder heat treat on the back strip. keep up the great videos! thanks. good info. Dave

[@meadowlarkadventuregear]

@@superdav95 Thank you for watching, and for recognizing the background work that goes into presenting these builds. As for bamboo alignment, I have done it just about every way you can, and have settled on a 2 primary criteria for alignment. First, I make sure that the strips are positioned with the growth direction going opposite ways to one another. Then I do my best to match up the working limb nodes. What this does is take the natural growth habit of being thin out of the node then getting progressively thicker to the next and reverses them so as the growth gets thinner on the belly slat, the growth is getting thicker on the belly slat - kind of evening out the thickness over is length, but most critically through the working limb… I hope that makes sense. I prefer to flatten my nodes, but that practice doesn’t negate the natural taper that occurs between the nodes. Lastly, I steer clear of heat treating the backing strip. I would only do such a thing to reduce the moisture content, but in my climate (semi arid) with relative humidity frequently in the single digits, air drying my stock is probably good enough.

[@christophertracey7201]

I'm I'm member of a lot of bow building communities and almost all say to watch Jodie(sp!) meadowlark to learn how to build lam bows.

[@meadowlarkadventuregear]

I would love to join these communities..! Please share or invite

[@christophertracey7201]

Nice design think I'll try something similar but at 66 ntn any boo back with either maple or ipe belly

[@meadowlarkadventuregear]

That design can make a phenomenal bow!

[@cbp1978]

Thanks for your videos ...must watch when they are posted. Curious where you got the bow layout dimensions? riffing off previous experiences? thanks!

[@meadowlarkadventuregear]

@@cbp1978 Thank you for watching! As for the layout, you’re pretty much right, I’ve made so many different bows that I’ve narrowed down my choices for dimensions. Like using a 12” riser. I think it’s perfect, but don’t find many that short out there. My goal with it is to maximize the length of the working limb without having to lengthen the whole bow - I just shrink the middle. I’m still working out siyah dimensions, but think I’m close!

[@billarmstrong1250]

All eyes and ears on this one! How long is the core lam? TNX Bill A

[@meadowlarkadventuregear]

@@billarmstrong1250 hope you enjoy the build! The core is 44” long and overlaps the siyahs by 2” on both sides.

[@musaadfelton3909]

If i may ask. If you say point 9 inches. Do you perhaps know how much that is in mm? Sorry we dont use inches here so its a bit confusing because when i use google to convert 0.9 inches to mm, it is way too thick to be that core lam. Lol im so confused with regards to measurements thats under an inch.. or when you say point 24 inches. Do you mean 0.024 inches

[@meadowlarkadventuregear]

@@musaadfelton3909you’re right, .9” would be way too thick for any core lam. I may have misspoke in the video, it’s .09” thick which is just over 2mm. Thank you for the head’s up!

[@markboucher7441]

We can measure the time between new videos by the length of your beard😊

[@meadowlarkadventuregear]

@@markboucher7441 lol!!! Yeah… might be time for a trim to tidy it up - it’s starting to get a little unruly!

[@matthewyu3531]

The idea is very good, but the reflex should be much bigger.

[@meadowlarkadventuregear]

@@matthewyu3531 agreed… Bamboo takes such an extreme amount of set before it finally settles in that I’m trying to win the compression game through tempering - we’ll see how this one reacts