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Offline Cromm

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Rainmaker, Ash ELB
« on: August 10, 2009, 03:23:24 pm »
Hi,
This is one of four Ash ELB's that I made in the last two weeks or so.
I had three friends come back from the Gulf and they wanted to make some ELB's after they had a chat with some french guys they were posted with.
They wanted something that they could play around with and didn't matter to much if it took a knocking around.
So I said that I had lots of ash that they could play with if they wanted too.
This is the one I made and named Rainmaker as it seems to rain when I bring it out,it even started to rain as the photo's were taken. After a long sunny clear day..
It is 78in nock to nock and 110lb at 28in.













The last photo is of some arrows that I made for them and me to use with the bows.
Let me know what you think???
Thanks for your time.
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Offline dragonman

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Re: Rainmaker, Ash ELB
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2009, 03:44:37 pm »
Thats a powerfull bow Cromm !!!  Good tiller, but thats all I can see! need some better pictures..... . closer up.  The arrows look good too.  how did you make those points and how does the bow perform
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Offline JustAim

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Re: Rainmaker, Ash ELB
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2009, 04:21:52 pm »
Very Nice Bow! Looks great.
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: Rainmaker, Ash ELB
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2009, 04:42:17 pm »
The tiller is great! The aprt of the back I can see looks to have some ru off though. Jawge
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Offline Cromm

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Re: Rainmaker, Ash ELB
« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2009, 06:13:01 pm »
The camera that I am using isn't too good. The good one was dropped into the loo by my 2 year old son....That's my boy!!
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Offline Jesse

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Re: Rainmaker, Ash ELB
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2009, 06:27:21 pm »
awesome bow Cromm tiller looks great
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Offline DanaM

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Re: Rainmaker, Ash ELB
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2009, 08:29:22 pm »
Looks really nice Cromm but at 110 lbs all I can say is ouch!!!
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Offline Pappy

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Re: Rainmaker, Ash ELB
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2009, 07:42:26 am »
Nice looking bow and arrows,tiller looks great.
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Offline GregB

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Re: Rainmaker, Ash ELB
« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2009, 07:49:37 am »
Your bow turned out really nice! If you shot 50 arrows or so out of it during one session, you'd have had quite a workout!  ;D
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Re: Rainmaker, Ash ELB
« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2009, 12:33:20 pm »
Well done! Bookmarked as a self bow for Aug BOM.
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Offline Cromm

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Re: Rainmaker, Ash ELB
« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2009, 02:50:57 pm »
Thanks everyone!
Now as long as no one else makes any selfbows in Aug's I may have a chance ;D ;D ;D
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Offline John K

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Re: Rainmaker, Ash ELB
« Reply #11 on: August 11, 2009, 02:56:33 pm »
Cool bow there Cromm ! ELB is on my list of bows to make.
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: Rainmaker, Ash ELB
« Reply #12 on: August 11, 2009, 03:26:02 pm »
Lookin' good, nice full compass tiller. How far will it throw an arrow? 220, 250? yards
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Offline mox1968

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Re: Rainmaker, Ash ELB
« Reply #13 on: August 12, 2009, 07:29:46 am »
great looking bow cromm,the bodkin points look very good too.mega poundage though I think I,d need a week off work after using that bow!!
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Re: Rainmaker, Ash ELB
« Reply #14 on: August 12, 2009, 08:28:17 pm »
Well It took me a while to figure out rainmaker was the bow. Must have something to do with my age. If was 18 yrs I'd look good shooting that bow too, but since I'm not I'd probably collapse a lung. Really pretty grain, to say the least. Nice pofile and tiller, and I love the bodkins they look like they were a major project alone. Keep scraping and I thought you had eyes in the back of your head to watch the little scrappler that dipped your  bow in the loo. Your friend Denny
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