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Offline okie64

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Little Hickory Bow
« on: February 20, 2012, 04:55:37 pm »
Heres a few pics of a hickory bow I finished up a couple of weeks ago for a friend of mine. He wanted a shorter bow to hunt with for next year. Its 59" long and pulls 50# at 28". I heat-treated the belly and reflexed the outer limbs a little bit to try to keep stringfollow to a minimum. After shooting it in it still holds about 3/4" of reflex. 1.5" wide at fades to 1.25" midlimb and then straight taper to 1/2" nocks. Thanks for lookin.









I shellaced the back of this stave when I cut it last spring and I only sanded it off the high spots on the back and it turned out with kind of a camo look to it.



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Offline GaryR

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Re: Little Hickory Bow
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2012, 05:02:04 pm »
Love that handle. Is that a brushed on stain on the back?
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Little Hickory Bow
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2012, 05:13:22 pm »
Nice tiller okie, very nice.
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Offline Keenan

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Re: Little Hickory Bow
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2012, 05:31:51 pm »
Very nice, Love the natural back.
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Little Hickory Bow
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2012, 05:52:50 pm »
I wish I could turn hickory into something like that.  Dang humidity  >:( 

That is a very cool bow.  I'm sure your friend will enjoy it.
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Offline ErictheViking

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Re: Little Hickory Bow
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2012, 06:01:10 pm »
good job, really like the back as well.
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Offline Dazv

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Re: Little Hickory Bow
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2012, 06:21:02 pm »
You have done one great job
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Offline bubby

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Re: Little Hickory Bow
« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2012, 06:32:29 pm »
nice ;D, Bub
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Offline ken75

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Re: Little Hickory Bow
« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2012, 10:33:07 pm »
sweet bow dude
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Offline okie64

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Re: Little Hickory Bow
« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2012, 10:02:15 am »
Thanks for all the compliments guys.

Gary, Its not stain its just clear shellac that I put on the back a long time ago to seal it.

Osage Outlaw, the humidity can get pretty high around here too, and when it does I dont shoot any of my hickory bows. When I wasnt working on it, I kept this bow in a room where the rh was around 35-40% to keep the mc down around 7-8%.
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