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Offline DirtyDan

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hackberry camo classic
« on: May 22, 2009, 01:18:28 pm »
Well, this is a bow that I finished up after coming home from the Tennessee Classic.  It is from a hackberry stave I purchased from Pappy four or five years ago.  It is 68" long and pulls 48# at 28".  The back is from right under the bark, that is why I stained it brown.  The camo belly is the same technique that I demonstrated at the Classic and that I showed on a locust sapling bow on this site under "Anything Else."  It is done with a turkey tail feather for a brush.  This time I used thinned down acrylic paint instead of dye.  It consists of a coat of light yellow, then yellow ochre, then lime green, then sap green, then burnt sienna, dark brown, and then black.  I heat treated the belly and put some reflex in it.  It has little or no string follow and no hand shock.  Fairly fast also.  I like it.  Hope you do.
Dan
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Offline DanaM

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Re: hackberry camo classic
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2009, 01:27:59 pm »
Looks great Dan and I like the tiller on her :)
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Re: hackberry camo classic
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2009, 01:39:24 pm »
That's one to be proud of Dan. Looks like it'd be fast, the way it's tillered with the outer half of each limb not bending quite as much as toward the fades. Between you and the Hammer Hackberry's really making a name for itself. Seems to me it might be about like hickory but maybe not quite as hard and not quite as thirsty? Is that about right?
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Offline brownhillboy

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Re: hackberry camo classic
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2009, 03:20:11 pm »
Cool looking bow...I like it!  Nice job.
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Offline redwasp

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Re: hackberry camo classic
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2009, 09:27:13 pm »
love the camo and the bow nice work
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Offline OldBow

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Re: hackberry camo classic
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2009, 01:07:30 pm »
Great bow and its bookmarked, too, for May self bow of the month!!
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Offline PeteC

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Re: hackberry camo classic
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2009, 08:50:26 pm »
Nice bow,and I really like the camo job,It's excellent! God Bless
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Offline Bowmonk

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Re: hackberry camo classic
« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2009, 09:03:16 pm »
Nice use of a turkey feather too ;D
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Re: hackberry camo classic
« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2009, 09:30:07 pm »
  Bowmonk,,, you're back? ;D
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Re: hackberry camo classic
« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2009, 01:01:38 am »
Yup yup.. it's me ;D
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Offline DirtyDan

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Re: hackberry camo classic
« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2009, 09:38:26 am »
Thanks, everyone.  Hackberry is sort of like a light hickory.  It is surprisingly springy in spite of its light weight.  I like its performance.  Yes, the tips are a little stiff, but I like to tiller them that way.  They seem to cast better.  "Thin but stiff."
Dan
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