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Jmilbrandt
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Black Walnut Selfbow
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July 14, 2009, 02:16:47 am »
This is my latest bow. It's 67" long 1 5/8" for 5 inches then tapering to a little under 3/8 at the tips. It pulls 45# at 28" and took a little bit of string follow. The stave had a little natural deflex on one end I removed it when I roughed it out but it came back very early in tillering so I just left it. Not my favorite bow I've made but overall i'm happy with it.
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Jmilbrandt
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Re: Black Walnut Selfbow
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July 14, 2009, 02:18:47 am »
The wood in the pics doesn't really look right it's kinda greyish looking on the back and almost black on the belly.
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Re: Black Walnut Selfbow
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July 14, 2009, 05:38:16 am »
Beautiful bow,very nice work.
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Hillbilly
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Re: Black Walnut Selfbow
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July 14, 2009, 07:07:22 am »
That's a really good looking bow-tiller looks perfect to me, nice finish work, too. Definitely a keeper.
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Dean Marlow
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Re: Black Walnut Selfbow
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July 14, 2009, 07:19:45 am »
Thats a very nice bow. I really like your tiller. Got a couple of walnut staves to work on myself. Thanks for sharing.
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GregB
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Re: Black Walnut Selfbow
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July 14, 2009, 07:43:08 am »
Great job! Tiller, finish work, and I especially like your tip overlays!
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shamus
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Re: Black Walnut Selfbow
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July 14, 2009, 10:19:20 am »
You did a good job.
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smokeu
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Re: Black Walnut Selfbow
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July 14, 2009, 10:21:17 am »
Great bow it looks really nice.
Deffinatly a keeper.
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OldBow
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Re: Black Walnut Selfbow
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July 14, 2009, 11:27:09 am »
Great taper job to well-crafted tips. I would imagine this is a very smooth shooter. Bookmarked, too, for July Self BOM.
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tombo
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Re: Black Walnut Selfbow
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July 14, 2009, 05:45:47 pm »
That's excellent.
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denny
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Re: Black Walnut Selfbow
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July 14, 2009, 06:17:14 pm »
nice job!..... my boy and I just split anice big log ready from last year.. boy what a job. I thought iron wood was hard. we plan to sell a couple of staves and make afew , hope ours look as nice as yours...
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Ohio John
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Re: Black Walnut Selfbow
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July 14, 2009, 09:05:56 pm »
It sure doesn't look like black walnut to me. Are you sure thats what it is?
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Justin Snyder
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Re: Black Walnut Selfbow
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July 14, 2009, 09:08:42 pm »
Glad to see your putting that wood to such good use. That is an impressive bow. Justin
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Hopefullbowyer
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Re: Black Walnut Selfbow
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July 14, 2009, 09:32:49 pm »
good looking bow. My walnut bow went from a natural recurve at start to a decurve while tillering. Also had a slight angle in the grain on one tip causing some string follow. Still shoots fine. Just need to figure out how to cure a crack that has developed.
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George Tsoukalas
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Re: Black Walnut Selfbow
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July 14, 2009, 10:09:17 pm »
Well done! Jawge
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