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Offline keef

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A short Broom (Cytisus scoparius) Bow
« on: February 10, 2011, 01:05:55 pm »
 Hi Folks
Really made this as an experiment over the last couple of evenings, form a small broom sapling, and although its nowhere near perfect, It would seem that this shrub is a good bow wood , and certainly very 'springy'

The bow is 44" ntn and narrow, I flipped the tips with dry heat ( @1"x 3/4" at the handle, tapering down to pencil thickness at the tips, which I reinforced with camel bone).. I have broken my spring balance, but would say at a conservative estimate, that it draws 35lb at 20"..

I would say that if you use this wood, Beware of checking, and leave plenty of wood around the plentiful knots...I did leave some, but there is a hint of compression fracture around one or two!

Spits out arrows fine for now though






Thanks for looking folks
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Offline tattoo dave

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Re: A short Broom (Cytisus scoparius) Bow
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2011, 01:15:04 pm »
pretty cool little bow Keef! You gonna do any finish work to it?
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Offline keef

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Re: A short Broom (Cytisus scoparius) Bow
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2011, 01:19:00 pm »
Quote from: tattoo dave on February 10, 2011, 01:15:04 pm
pretty cool little bow Keef! You gonna do any finish work to it?
Dave

I'm going to put a whole heap of shots through it this weekend, then..If it holds up, I'm going to finish it ...... If not I'm going to work on another broom stave, and learn from my experience !!
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Re: A short Broom (Cytisus scoparius) Bow
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2011, 01:37:21 pm »
Nice !  I like it. 8)
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Offline Parnell

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Re: A short Broom (Cytisus scoparius) Bow
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2011, 03:28:04 pm »
That's very nice!
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Offline John K

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Re: A short Broom (Cytisus scoparius) Bow
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2011, 03:50:34 pm »
Sweet, i love it !
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Offline dragonman

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Re: A short Broom (Cytisus scoparius) Bow
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2011, 04:13:01 pm »
nice bow, I've  often looked at broom ( and gorse) and wondered if it would make a bow.... well done , nice to know it does. I wonder if gorse will?
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: A short Broom (Cytisus scoparius) Bow
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2011, 04:17:42 pm »
Looks real sweet.
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Offline half eye

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Re: A short Broom (Cytisus scoparius) Bow
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2011, 06:02:37 pm »
now that's slick.....
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Offline medicinewheel

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Re: A short Broom (Cytisus scoparius) Bow
« Reply #9 on: February 11, 2011, 02:48:22 am »
Looks really good!
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Re: A short Broom (Cytisus scoparius) Bow
« Reply #10 on: February 11, 2011, 09:58:37 am »
Sweet little bow,very nice tiller. :) :)
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Offline Sidewinder

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Re: A short Broom (Cytisus scoparius) Bow
« Reply #11 on: February 11, 2011, 10:47:35 am »
Amen to all the above. Great looking little bow. Just goes to show ya, there is tons of workable bow wooods out there.   Good job,   Danny
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Offline keef

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Re: A short Broom (Cytisus scoparius) Bow
« Reply #12 on: February 11, 2011, 01:18:41 pm »
 Thank you all for your kind comments.. I'm keen to srart a new bow from this wood soon, and perhaps sinew back it for good measure.. I will take it to the woods this weekend and have some fun with it though.. :)
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Offline Lee Slikkers

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Re: A short Broom (Cytisus scoparius) Bow
« Reply #13 on: February 11, 2011, 02:02:26 pm »
Very sweet tiller and I love the profile.
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Offline Barrage

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Re: A short Broom (Cytisus scoparius) Bow
« Reply #14 on: February 11, 2011, 03:27:03 pm »
Very cool little bow.  Looks like a lot of fun.
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