Last Celtic Warrior
17-11-2006, 01:21 AM
G'day people, Steve here. My other half signed up on here (antianara) and after helping her set up her recurve (since sold) I have become interested in archery again myself. We're in SE Queensland, by the way.
I'm not one to spend money where I don't really have to, so to set ourselves up with a couple of compounds I decided to buy a couple of cheap components from the US and make the rest. Managed to pick up two sets of 18 1/4 inch Hoyt Gamegetter II arms (30-55# and 55-70#) and 2 PSE risers for next to nothing. Of course, cams were going to be a problem on the cheap, so I decided to whip up a "binary" design of my own based on some others that are around now. I modified the curve and designed my own laticework (the lightweight centre) and will simply laser cut them from 4mm Kevlar and route the grooves. These parts will mount onto a split aluminium hub with ball races. I'm also putting ball races in the anchor post on each cam.
After trialling the cams with the Hoyt arms mounted on the basic PSE risers, I will laser cut my own design riser, to be laminated and fibreglass encased to form a lightweight rigid structure that should last many a year.
I may as well include an image of the design so far. There's more work to be done on the laminate layers, but the majority of it is already right to be lasercut... (The grip will be leather)
I look forward to getting to know some of the good people on this forum, as I have on other forums including aussieveedubbers.com and aussiefrogs.com
I'm not one to spend money where I don't really have to, so to set ourselves up with a couple of compounds I decided to buy a couple of cheap components from the US and make the rest. Managed to pick up two sets of 18 1/4 inch Hoyt Gamegetter II arms (30-55# and 55-70#) and 2 PSE risers for next to nothing. Of course, cams were going to be a problem on the cheap, so I decided to whip up a "binary" design of my own based on some others that are around now. I modified the curve and designed my own laticework (the lightweight centre) and will simply laser cut them from 4mm Kevlar and route the grooves. These parts will mount onto a split aluminium hub with ball races. I'm also putting ball races in the anchor post on each cam.
After trialling the cams with the Hoyt arms mounted on the basic PSE risers, I will laser cut my own design riser, to be laminated and fibreglass encased to form a lightweight rigid structure that should last many a year.
I may as well include an image of the design so far. There's more work to be done on the laminate layers, but the majority of it is already right to be lasercut... (The grip will be leather)
I look forward to getting to know some of the good people on this forum, as I have on other forums including aussieveedubbers.com and aussiefrogs.com