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Offline druid

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Black locust pyramidal 62# 30"
« on: January 08, 2012, 12:19:22 pm »
This is a bow for my friend. Made of low quality wood: ratio of early and late wood is 50:50. 70" ntn, 1 3/5 wide at fades and under 1/2 at nocks. A lot of early draw weight, probably beacuse not taking set, it is little strange for stave like this. Has some twist that added some false stiffnes to the limbs, tiller could be better but I had no nerves to twist it off. Finished with pig fat and bee wax. Stave of this quality took terrible amount of crysals in warbow designs.




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TurtleCreek

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Re: Black locust pyramidal 62# 30"
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2012, 01:46:25 pm »
Nice bow, what type of stain or finish did you use?
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Offline Dazv

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Re: Black locust pyramidal 62# 30"
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2012, 01:50:53 pm »
another amazing bow did this bow get any crysals in it???
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Re: Black locust pyramidal 62# 30"
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2012, 02:40:12 pm »
Another nice low set bow, well done.
I've just finished an osage bow with similar poor late/early wood ratio and it kept 1 1/8 reflex...sometimes the wood just doesn't understand the rules!
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Offline druid

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Re: Black locust pyramidal 62# 30"
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2012, 02:41:22 pm »
No crysals, thats what impressed me, such a trash stave without crysals... It means that amount of crysals is not proportional to wood density, in this case.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Black locust pyramidal 62# 30"
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2012, 02:51:21 pm »
Seasoned wood properly tillered! I think Dean Torges said that and you, Druid, have hit the nail on the head again with this bow just like every other bow you've posted here on PA.
  Wood is variable so you get different reactions from different woods and even the same wood from the same tree. Being able to take the wood at hand and produce a beautiful, well tillered bow is as much the bowyer as the wood itself. I think lots of folks want to blame the wood(me included) and not the nut behind the drawknife.  ;)
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Offline ErictheViking

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Re: Black locust pyramidal 62# 30"
« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2012, 03:57:30 pm »
Awesome job with that Druid, tiller is just sweet. the whole thing flows together nicely.
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Black locust pyramidal 62# 30"
« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2012, 04:23:24 pm »
Bows and bees, neither know it's impossible!

Pat:  I resemble that remark, my drawknife has a loose nut attached to both handles.  (And the computer keyboard/computer chair interface is corrupted.)

I like that bow, Druid.  I like it plenty.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Black locust pyramidal 62# 30"
« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2012, 06:02:56 pm »
Me too, John!  ;)
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: Black locust pyramidal 62# 30"
« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2012, 08:38:12 pm »
That is one of the most elegant bows I have seen...
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Offline Dictionary

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Re: Black locust pyramidal 62# 30"
« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2012, 09:29:55 pm »
Quote from: toomanyknots on January 08, 2012, 08:38:12 pm
That is one of the most elegant bows I have seen...
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Offline DRon knife

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Re: Black locust pyramidal 62# 30"
« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2012, 12:32:17 am »
62#@30" is my numbers,give your buddy another one...lol! I'll trade ya some hop horn 4 it,jk jk
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Offline randman

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Re: Black locust pyramidal 62# 30"
« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2012, 02:09:29 am »
"Elegant" is a good word to describe all of the bows I've seen Druid post. Even the nobby, Knotty primitive branches.....pure elegance when you see that full draw pic!
Druid I'm using your tip overlays. I really like them. I call them my "Druid Tips"
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Offline druid

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Re: Black locust pyramidal 62# 30"
« Reply #13 on: January 09, 2012, 02:28:49 am »
@randman: thank you  ;) , these overlays are very usefull, I almost always use them!
DRon, soon you will make something similar, I feel it, just go on my friend!
@Dictionary, toomanyknots, JW, Eric: thanky you, I am doing my best. This good company here makes me feel usefull.  :)
@Pat: you said well, even in the same tree there are differents. I hope soon to post my experiment with the other stave of this quality (there is a mess in my cabin but I am pretty sure it is its half-brother), that is warbow design 100+# with a lot of crysals and still holding natural reflex.  :o
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Offline soy

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Re: Black locust pyramidal 62# 30"
« Reply #14 on: January 09, 2012, 09:50:10 pm »
Nice job great bends no set you r the man ;)
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