Workshop Chatter

[@estelpereira5011]

John, I did / am watching this. Thank you!!!!!!!

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@estelpereira5011 You're very welcome.

[@joedaniels4646]

I have definitely taken a like to shorter bows. 60" maybe 62" at the most, but the 56" down to a super mag I just made which is only 51" and 48" strung up I really enjoy shooting more. (I made the riser for 35 lb limbs I had laying around. I set it at a pretty severe angle to keep it short so the brace height is high and it lowered the poundage to about 30 -29 lbs I have a video up if you want to see it ) Looks like you have a nice little shop there ... Good luck with your projects, and God bless!

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@joedaniels4646 Oh man, yes I'll watch it. Thank you, Joe.

[@JoelWiggins-p9x]

Yeah, the edge of the sinew is the lip that holds the string on. It’s pretty cool.

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@JoelWiggins-p9x The next bow will be correct. Yep.

[@JoelWiggins-p9x]

Hey John, if you’re going to put a riser block on there, you just wrap it down flat and leave as much as you can and then glue your block on I do that shit all the time bro

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@JoelWiggins-p9x I could but I have other staves that wouldn't need risers glued on. I'm really leaning on using this one for a bunch of crossbows.

[@JoelWiggins-p9x]

Get you a cheap bearing press and put the form in it and then put steamed wood in form and depress the jack and if you have an air jack all you have to do is push the button and it’s over with. I don’t have that stuff but it’s an idea that I was trying to come up with for recurve and limb tips but if you had a form that you stick in your press any shape, then you put the word in and just press it, and then put your band around it to keep it together and set it aside and do another one production line lol, that’s just one of my harebrained ideas

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@JoelWiggins-p9xSomething to think about.

[@JoelWiggins-p9x]

I revisit all my old bows all the time and now they’re all awesome do it John take it apart send you back it it’ll be awesome lol you don’t have to do shit I was just trying to give you a little nudge

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@JoelWiggins-p9x I think that would be cool to carefully take it apart, saving all of the material and put it back together sinew backed. That's a good nudge.

[@smucko1232]

Hello john this is completely unrelated to the video but i have been fascinated with your old videos regarding softwoods and especially conifers. Where i live here in northern sweden theres not many "good" bow woods and they are sparsely populated but there surely are a ton of conifers so i dont feel guilty about using. The sami "as you probably know" used spruce branches for shooting squirrels. And as a fairly amateur bowyer these are fairly easy to make and fun to shoot. Sorry about my rambling but im just to thankful for you opening up my view for what bow woods that can be used and was used back in the day. I have seen examples made of compression conifers from siberia in the national museum of finland and i wonder if these were strung "backwards"? Sorry for my English. Best regards Johan

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@smucko1232 I like tangents. The rules are, there are no rules. Spruces and firs, if you use reaction wood from limbs should make decent bows. Heck, during the Ice Age, there would have been conifers and hardly any deciduous trees so that's what they used. We gotta master that.

[@smucko1232]

@@johnjriggsarchery2457 I recently made a bow from compression spruce i found in a bog and it shoots fairly good. I have read about a bow from stellmoor that was made from scots pine its a shame that it was destroyed in world war 2. I have another question about deflexing bows. Do you use steam or can you just heat it over a fire? And i agree we should definitely master using more uncommon woods its a shame theres not too much information. You are one of the few on youtube that have covered it in detail.

[@matthewconroy3081]

I vote longbow, so many people want horse bows but a good stave for longbows are hard to keep. Especially snaky. Nice D bow, n if it takes set …..set back handle. Everyone wants a horse bow. A nice D bow is classic!!

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@matthewconroy3081 one needs a lot of bows in every style.

[@hughswanzy8871]

Comanche bows are nice and don't need backing to be fast and almost bullet proof, just use osage.

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@hughswanzy8871 HI Hugh, very true. But I look at it as bringing back a wider range of bows that other people overlook and learning their secrets.

[@danielspain7231]

John you paid 40 odd dollars for that Osage stave - about £32, if I bought one off eBay all in would cost me near enough $250 about 180-200 quid and it might not even survive the journey! Ah man…

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@danielspain7231 I wouldn't say that it's the ultimate stave for making a typical long bow, but yes, for $40 and free shipping it's an insanely good deal. That fellow is providing a charity.

[@JoelWiggins-p9x]

Rasp

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@JoelWiggins-p9x Yep