Did some Tinkering last week.....

[longbowdave1]

I had a leftover piece of the pink riser from the last 48" kids bow. When the riser is layed out carefully, you can get two out of one standard riser block. So, I thought I would make use of it. She's a "powerful" bow pulling 15 @ 18", and 20# @ 22".(LOL)

I've been asked what thicknesses of maple and glass I use to build these kids bow. Here it is, two hard maple parallel laminations of .070, two black glass .030, and a 12" long riser for a 48"AMO bow. I use a R/D bow form that I built, but you could just as well glue up a straight limbed kids bow. The riser is about 1 1/4" tall during the glue-up stage. Bumping the maple lams up .074 each will increase the weight up to about 22# @ 22", depending on the shaping and thickness of the limbs, ETC....

Time to put down the bow tools, and get ready for my sons Youth Turkey hunt this saturday! I haven't hunted since last week of December. and it will feel great to be out there calling birds for Mike.

 

[Shank]

That is an awesome looking bow. What arrows would one shoot from a bow of this weight?

 

[longbowdave1]

Thanks, glad you like it.

I know Big Jim and 3Rivers both sell some fine youth cedar arrows that I think are 5/16" diameter arrows with a low profile fletching. Full size fletchings can add drag, like a Flu-Flu effect, on the little bows. Also, the lightest weight carbons would work, like a GT 15/35 possibly.

 

[John Cooper]

Nice looking bow!!!!!!! Mighty fine work!!!!!!!

 

[longbowdave1]

Thanks Coop, always fun to put together the mini bows.