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Offline Badger

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Re: What else can you ask from a bowwood ??
« Reply #15 on: May 30, 2007, 02:51:42 pm »
ipe, brazilian walnut and ironwood are the only names I have ever used with it. I started making mine just abit wider on stiff handled bows recently and am happy with the results. I keep the outer limbs very narrow and stiff. I would have to say ipe/boo are about my favorite combo. Steve
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« Reply #16 on: May 30, 2007, 04:09:30 pm »
Strunk has a favorite of this combo that's about 5/8-3/4" wide and very highly crowned on the belly side.  Elegant design for a hunting-weight bow.

          J. D. Duff

PS, Justin's right.  Unless they tell you it's really ipe, it could be any number of things.
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« Reply #17 on: May 31, 2007, 02:52:39 am »
 ;D Awesome Manny, I'm glad you trimmed it. When I sent this bow to Manny, I "assumed"  by the photos I had seen of him he was going to be drawing the bow a good 32" and was probably 5'24" tall ;)..Well photos can be a bit deceiving sometimes, and I probably would have sent it anyway since I felt he would learn from it. I sure did.

Manny I can't wait to see the pics!

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Re: What else can you ask from a bowwood ??
« Reply #18 on: June 01, 2007, 02:36:09 am »
I've being extremely busy lately (moving again) and finishing a couplle of bows for Bernie and Bob, but I'll take some pictures soon, It's a beauty, ...actually it's 63' ntn remesured it last nite
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Re: What else can you ask from a bowwood ??
« Reply #19 on: June 01, 2007, 11:58:26 am »
Quote from: D. Tiller on May 29, 2007, 07:30:28 pm
Be carefull when working with this wood since the dust is toxic. Use a filter mask for sure!!!
Ditto, this is the nastiest wood I've ever worked with. And I'm not allergic to very many substances.
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Re: What else can you ask from a bowwood ??
« Reply #20 on: June 01, 2007, 11:59:04 am »
Pictures?
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Re: What else can you ask from a bowwood ??
« Reply #21 on: June 01, 2007, 04:33:41 pm »
Actually I've never had problems with working IPE , or YEW for that matter. will take some pictures today
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Re: What else can you ask from a bowwood ??
« Reply #22 on: June 01, 2007, 09:13:03 pm »
I'd be interested to see too. Got a stupid question though - have heard it several times, to pike a bow means to cut off the tips and shorten it  ???.
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Re: What else can you ask from a bowwood ??
« Reply #23 on: June 01, 2007, 09:18:15 pm »
Yes Cowboy,


here some pictures, I put a dime in the pictures because I'm not to good with mesuring ::)
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« Reply #28 on: June 01, 2007, 09:25:12 pm »
Guava overlays

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