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Offline Pappy

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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #30 on: December 07, 2006, 01:01:41 pm »
That's a beauty,I love those kind of bows.
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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #31 on: December 08, 2006, 11:08:20 am »
Killer waves-n-grain.

Where is the side view of the braced bow and of course what it looks like drawn.

3 pages of koodoz for showing a tiller challenged staff????

Guess it's cuz it's osage. ;D

My bad it's persimmon. One of my favorite woods.

How does it perform? I made a bow from this wood last year and really liked it. The color of the wood is beautiful.
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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #32 on: December 08, 2006, 12:40:35 pm »
I'm going to get the braced pics soon. It's performance is average. It's slightly whip ended. I should probably retiller it but I figure why mess with something that is already so beautiful. I'm just proud it even shoots.
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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #33 on: December 08, 2006, 05:15:50 pm »
Quote from: Mechslasher on December 06, 2006, 11:43:48 am
nice!  never seen persimmon grow like that in my neck of the woods.  it's usually straight as an arrow.

Same here! I have a couple persimmon trees I thought about starting out with because they're so straight.

That's a beautiful bow.
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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #34 on: December 08, 2006, 08:47:00 pm »
Just   got back in town...WOW that's a beauty! Persimmon is suppose to be really good wood.


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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #35 on: December 09, 2006, 08:48:33 am »
Cool snake bow dude! I have one nearly as crooked I made from ironwood about 5 years ago. Yours was a lot tougher to make than mine. Congrats!!
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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #36 on: February 03, 2008, 02:24:12 am »
Here are my  pics everyone wants to see! Sorry it took so long.



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Offline DanaM

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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #37 on: February 03, 2008, 07:53:06 am »
Ya its whip tillered, think I would try redoing it, pike it and try to get some wood bending on the inner limbs.
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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #38 on: February 03, 2008, 08:15:06 am »
DanaM: Yes, "You took the words right of my mouth", as Meatloaf once sang...
By the way, its so ugly that its already pretty again! Well done in this way, but tiller it out a little more, for make it stay longer!
Which wood is it, Osage?
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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #39 on: February 03, 2008, 08:53:59 am »
Wow that took a lot of nerve to take that piece on.  Very nice.
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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #40 on: February 03, 2008, 10:55:20 am »
I like Dana's idea. Get rid of those whip tips and you've got more than just a cool character bow there,I'll bet it becomes a decent shooter. I'm not sure how many bows you've built but I will say you have guts and I like that in a fella. Great job regardless.    Danny
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Offline Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive

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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #41 on: February 03, 2008, 11:18:44 am »
looks like somthign in my collection, persimmion around my place loks just like that too. i have only found one or 2 that where kinda straight. good job with it. keep up the good work.
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ozark caveman

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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #42 on: February 03, 2008, 12:07:58 pm »
Someday years from now I might tiller it some more but as for now I'm happy! It took three months of slow scraping so I'm not real excited about scraping it more.
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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #43 on: February 03, 2008, 01:40:46 pm »
Glad to see the pictures.   I would sure like to see an unstrung side profile and a shot of the back. It looks like the tips line up good, how about a shot of the belly while it is strung so I can see how the string tracks  over the handle.
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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #44 on: February 03, 2008, 02:01:56 pm »
Very nice bow!!!
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