[Gregg Coffey]

in reply to: Custom Bow Makers #46950

I think the biggest advantages of a forwared handle are pointability and getting a longer draw from a shorter bow. You don’t necessarily give up very much performance either. Limb profile has a lot to do with that.

Brace height can still be fairly low. I like 7 1/4″ to 7 1/2″ on most of my bows. Higher and lower certainly won’t hurt anything.

Happy New Year,

Gregg

[Gregg Coffey]

in reply to: Amazing: My son's new Java Man Archery Helms Deep #20672

The silencers are indeed from Two Tracks. I really like the ease of use, simplicity, durability, and oh yeah they make your bow quieter too.

Gregg

[Gregg Coffey]

in reply to: New (to me) Shrew Classic Hunter #55562

Mike,

It’s almost done. I might hang on to it for a while though! 😈

Gregg

[Gregg Coffey]

in reply to: New (to me) Shrew Classic Hunter #55442

I think I have seen that bow before. Have fun Jim.

Gregg

[Gregg Coffey]

in reply to: Carbon in longbows #38554

My experience with the bows I have made, is that the minor increase in speed, may not be worth the extra trouble in making the bow quiet. No one has complained about lack of speed without carbon.

Since the only advantage is speed, and speed is not everything. I prefer not to work with carbon at this time.

That’s my opinion, and should not be considered as hard fact with other bowyer’s products.

Gregg

[Gregg Coffey]

in reply to: Elkhearts, old and new #38745

Dave,

That was lyagooshka that mentioned the American. I had one in stock that had been sitting here for a while, so now he owns it. Then he ordered another.

Was not planning to have any of them at Kalamazoo. Not enought time and too many Elkhearts to get done by then. There will be a couple models under-represented at the Expo.

Thanks for all the nice comments folks.

Gregg

[Gregg Coffey]

in reply to: My new longbow #9268

Aaron,

Those are gorgeous! Very nice work.

Gregg

[Gregg Coffey]

in reply to: My new Java Man Duo Flex #55356

A little history on this bow. I started out making self and all wood laminates. Decided to try to reproduce the Willcox Duoflex in all wood laminate in the late 90’s. Made 1-2 dozen of them.

This bow is a glass version off the same form. Worked pretty well.

Thanks for all the nice comments.

Gregg

[Gregg Coffey]

in reply to: Bow prototype — the Inferno #30783

I believe its “Production Ready” now.

Gregg

[Gregg Coffey]

in reply to: decorative laminations? #24627

1 mm is fine for thickness of the zebrawood “veneers”, but I always include the thickness of all the laminations in my calculations. If you built a recurve w/o veneers which turned out good, and then add veneers without accounting for the extra thickness, you’ll have a bow for Hercules, and will need to start over.

Also, zebrawood is pretty porous, and will soak up the epoxy before curing and leave you with very small glue voids that show up under the clear glass. Use plenty of epoxy and heat and apply pressure slowly. This is mostly a cosmetic issue, but annoying.

I’ll check back tomorrow and see if you have more questions.

Gregg

[Gregg Coffey]

in reply to: Got One…Got Lucky… #24610

Nice deer Roger. And thanks for thew nice compliments gentlemen. I’m working a shorter version of my Tanjavur now. A 54″ and 56″ hybrid LB named “Inferno”. Jody has #2 to test for me. #3 is a little better and hopefully #4 will be the grand slam….or at least an inside the parker.. sorry, I love baseball too!

Gregg

[Gregg Coffey]

in reply to: short longbow recommendation #51399

jnapp,

We appreciate your patience and I hope your new Bama bow works out well.

Please believe that whenever someone asks how long its going to take to get their bow, I HATE telling them 17-18 months. For some reason its working though. We’ve already got a darth or new orders this month and the Kalamazoo show is yet to come…in two days.

Thanks for all the kind remarks above,

Java Man the Shrewyer

[Gregg Coffey]

in reply to: Trapezoidal Limbs #29739

Steve explained the cross section pretty well. Many bowyers make their limbs with a trapezoidal cross section. Most of them make the back narrower.

As Dave stated, I trap the limbs on Shrews for two reasons. the first is to bring the bow to correct draw weight and fine tiller the limbs.

The 2nd reason is to remove limb mass, especially in the outer portions of the limb. This helps some with arrow speed and softness of the bow as the arrow is released.

Gregg

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