by Hornseeker » Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:22 am
Good God Bender... I didn't think I'd make it through your review... but I ended up finishing and liking it more and more as I went! Good job!
#1... in your cut and pastes...put some more spaces and paragraph breaks...or ... lots of ........ to break up the text. Please!
#2... I had the book for about 5 months and picked through it a bit. I was building quite a few bows at the time and thought maybe I'd get something useful from it. I was wrong.
#3... you know... EFFECTIVELY... related to bow performance...he's onto something about the draw length being associated with the length from brace to full draw, as thats where the power of the bow comes from. Raise your brace height and "generally" see your arrow speed drop. Not a "rule", but generally true. I think I'll stick with AMO...
#4... lack of lateral stability in the limbs WILL make the bow harder to tune, unless maybe you shoot with a release. A torsionally stable limb will induce less "wobble" on the string/arrow. The stable limb will keep the string more "stable"?? for lack of a better term this morning. While a non-stable limb will undulate and let the string travel more left and right after the release.
#5... Stack has very little to do with limb materials, but geometry.... as you say. However, be careful... as a bow with a long, static tip can have a low string angle at the nock yet stack like a 44DD....
#7... "Harrison admits on page 120 that he has lost count of the number of broken bows returned to him that he decided were overdrawn. Given a failure to understand draw length, brace height, elasticity, I guess we really shouldn’t be surprised should we?"... now that is some funny shit. (unless you were one of the guys he accused of overdrawing the bow and maybe didn't give him a new one??!)
#8... "“c” represents the speed of light"... I think O.L. already patented using the speed of light as a measure of arrow speed for his ACS bows. (sorry OL...Im really not a hater)
#9... "using a Flemish Twist string on his bows will void his warranty." WTF???
#10..."Using this “method” of a variable constant, plus not even actually calculating efficiency by dividing delivered kinetic energy by stored energy, the industry standard method, he manages to get bows that are operating at up 197.3% efficiency! Holy Crap! Forget being a bowyer! He’s discovered perpetual motion and over unity power generation!" ...OK...now that is some Really REALLY funny shit!!
#11..."Harrison admits to purposefully mismarking his bows. For example taking a 50# draw weight and marking it as 60# or 60# and marking it at 70#. Supposedly he did this to satisfy customers who wanted to brag about shooting high draw weights.".... Damn....
#12..."Harrison discusses how to shoot a bow. Its one of the better parts of the book as he manages to go 8 pages without actually saying anything.".... LMFAO
He definitely came off as a narcissistic wind bag in the book. Does the phrase "Baffle them with Bullshit" ring a bell here?
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