runewulfsong
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looking good Bill... thanks for the pics and further information. I know there is a kid, I think he's in Hawaii, who is making archery bows out of molded PVC with decent success, but the thing that brings him up, is he gets fiberglass poles, I believe he said from a farm or hardware store, and places them inside to reinforce the PVC (so it doesn't overbend) and to of course provide the springy kinetic energy to fire an arrow at a moderately high velocity. Well, what I was originally thinking was 2 - 3' pieces of rebar driven into ground leaving a foot above, then the fiberglass inside th pvc, then that slid down over the rebar. I may have been overthinking it, but after seeing some PVC hoop houses get smashed with 40mph+ gusts, I was worried, hence thinking about the fiberglass poles, lol.