I've been beavering away with the flight bow test bed, mounting boo/Yew limbs in a plywood shoot through riser (several videos on my Youtube channel ( @delcat8168) ).
I've had a test shot which was promising, but now the problem is making arrows! I'm experimenting with 4 section cane arrows made from heavy warbow cane arrows, sawing them along their length sanding the sawn faces and gluing back together, then repeating the process having rotated the shaft 90 degrees.
I'm also experimenting with compressing wood using heat and pressure like was used to produce "forgewood" shafts back in the 70's 80's.
Making arrows isn't my fave, but a flight bow isn't much good without them!
I changed the set up to use 2 5ton jacks, draped an insulated blanket over the rectangular tube sections to hold the heat in. I clipped the moveable rectangular tube up underneath the top one while I blasted hot air through them from a hot air gun while the wood was steaming. The wood was about 20mm square and 20 " long. When it was compressed it was sawn along the length to give two shafts.
i think I squeezed a bit hard as a load of resin came out despite it being very old timber.
I need to experiment with other wood.
It certainly proves it can work as a DIY process.
If anyone wants to do full length arrow shaft, I'd guess you'd want 3 jacks or two heavier duty ones.
The rectangular tube was 60x30x3mm wall thickness. The other metal was odd stuff I had lying around.
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