Red Oak Pyramid Bow

Step 3: Laying out the bow

Begin by inspecting the wood, check for any splinters, cracks, knots, if you can work around them great, if not, go get another piece. Slice a inch off one end and then cut a 70 inch portion off, that will leave a 25 inch section.
Take the 70 inch portion and locate and mark the center of each end, snap a line, or use a straight edge to make a line down the plank between these points. Now mark the center of the board. Label the center very clearly. The bow is symmetrical so layout is easy.

The handle is 4 inches long, one inch wide and centered.
The "wedges" are 2 inches long and 2.5 inches wide.
The limbs are 30 inches long and go from the wedges to a width of 3/8ths inches.

Got that? Pretty simple.

Comments

[mishfish.awesome]

Do you cut one inch of the length, or one inch off the with? and the 25in is that the extra or another part of the bow? how thick is the handle piece?

[meburnfire]

So the total bow length is around 66"? Im just checking to see wheter that is the correct total length that you said. And also, would this be too long or tall or whatever for someone who's 5 feet? (Not sure wheter " is inch or feet as i live in Canada)

[mishfish.awesome]

Go Canada!!!!

[Tool Using Animal]

Inches.

It's 68" 66 is nock to nock

Somewhere in the thread I told some one how to scale it. I'm 6'6" pull 28" so just do a linear scale on all dimensions to fit you.

[meburnfire]

Kay, Thanks

[Baddi]

It is so annoying to have to convert the inches and feet to meters
I don't know inches and feet.

[mstewart5]

the wood i got was only 7 feet. can i just use the 70 in piece and have a 13in piece left over since you cut it down to 9in anyway?

[koga95]

im 15 and confused as crap.

[MR.builderguy]

thats pretty confused.

[Ashiko]

Crap: "Last thing I remember I was food! What the crap happened to me?! I'm as confused as koga95"

[steadfast1984]

I got a plank that is 1" x 2.5" x 8'
I should be ok with half an inch thinner?
the lumber store had their wood miss labeled and i didn't
have my tape measure with me.
didn't know it was only 2.5" until after my first cut when
I started drawing out the plans.

[Tool Using Animal]

Bet it's not mislabeled ;-), wood measurements are based on unfinished size, once they surface the pieces,they are about 1/4 to 1/2 inch smaller. You'll be fine.

[koga95]

how long are these blanks?!?!

[Tool Using Animal]

70 inches

[duck_tape_]

That only adds up to 68 inches.  Do you just leave an extra inch of wood on each end?

[Tool Using Animal]

You can just trim it off, it's for error.