Author Topic: 5 Curve Hackberry  (Read 9087 times)

0 Members and 2 Guests are viewing this topic.

blackhawk

  • Guest
5 Curve Hackberry
« on: February 24, 2012, 06:05:41 pm »
Heres a hackberry bow i started tearing into back at martys(one of several staves worked on that weekend),and i got around to wrapping it up a few days ago. This was a stave from pearly,thanks buddy  ;)...and now i pass it on to my bro-in law. Its a lefty,but can be shot well from either way due to perfect string tracking. Its 67" ntn, 43@27".

Offline paulsemp

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,918
Re: 5 Curve Hackberry
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2012, 06:07:32 pm »
where is our brace and full draw shot?????????

blackhawk

  • Guest
Re: 5 Curve Hackberry
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2012, 06:08:05 pm »
thanks for looking  ;)

Offline Dazv

  • Member
  • Posts: 472
Re: 5 Curve Hackberry
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2012, 06:10:04 pm »
I LOVE IT!!!!!!!! amazing work i love the big knot in the limb.

Offline PEARL DRUMS

  • Member
  • Posts: 14,079
  • }}}--CK-->
Re: 5 Curve Hackberry
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2012, 06:11:20 pm »
Sahhhhhhhweet bow Chris! Maybe that gnarly knot will help K-hat relax a little on his knot issue! I love me some hackberry. I still cant believe you got a bow out that crap stave. It was joke I swear!
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.

Offline paulsemp

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,918
Re: 5 Curve Hackberry
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2012, 06:14:14 pm »
THANK YOU

blackhawk

  • Guest
Re: 5 Curve Hackberry
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2012, 06:18:01 pm »
thanks guys....if you look closely each limb has a big knot,and each are the exact same distance from the center of the handle. i laid it out like this on purpose..i think the unbraced shot shows them the best.

Offline Dazv

  • Member
  • Posts: 472
Re: 5 Curve Hackberry
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2012, 06:22:03 pm »
thanks guys....if you look closely each limb has a big knot,and each are the exact same distance from the center of the handle. i laid it out like this on purpose..i think the unbraced shot shows them the best.
that pretty cool

Offline Elktracker

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,964
  • Josh
Re: 5 Curve Hackberry
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2012, 06:59:21 pm »
That is sweet!! Great work and love the layout of the knots!

Josh
my friends think my shops a mess, my wife thinks I have too much bow wood, my neighbors think im redneck white trash and they may all be right on the money!!

Josh Vance  Netarts OR. (Tillamook)

Offline PEARL DRUMS

  • Member
  • Posts: 14,079
  • }}}--CK-->
Re: 5 Curve Hackberry
« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2012, 07:39:07 pm »
That is sweet!! Great work and love the layout of the knots!

Josh

I watched him do it and told him I agreed all the while thinking it aint never gonna hold up! As usual he proved me wrong.
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.

Offline Lee Slikkers

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,545
Re: 5 Curve Hackberry
« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2012, 07:41:35 pm »
Super cool bow BH, thanks for sharing the pics and inspiration...knots, hmmm....you'll see why I say they in a few when I post up a pic of an osage stave I just lay'd out and cut out 5 minutes ago.
~ Lee

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?"
— Aldo Leopold
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Offline osage outlaw

  • Member
  • Posts: 11,959
Re: 5 Curve Hackberry
« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2012, 07:42:02 pm »
That's a sweet bow.  I have to try me some of that hackberry.
I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left

Offline coaster500

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,741
Re: 5 Curve Hackberry
« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2012, 07:49:16 pm »
Great Hack job Hawkman!!!!

That was definitely not the easiest hunk of wood to make a bow from...  Man you turn out some crazy bows!!!

Love this stuff  ;D
Inspiration, information and instruction by the ton and it's free,,, such a deal :)

Offline ErictheViking

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,504
Re: 5 Curve Hackberry
« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2012, 08:29:49 pm »
Nice bow from a crazy hunk of wood! 
"He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart"  C.S. Lewis

blackhawk

  • Guest
Re: 5 Curve Hackberry
« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2012, 08:35:34 pm »
thanks paul
thanks dazv
thanks elktracker
thanks pearly.....look whos laughing now...n she shoots great to boot 8)
thanks lee...yup...you like your girls nasty like me ;)  :laugh:
thanks clint...yeah buddy..go get some...dont know what your missing man ;)
thanks coaster...it wasnt easy to tiller due to those knots,they were very stubborn to get them working some and blended into the tiller....its why i came in a few pounds lighter than my target,but she told me different ...gotta listen to the wood man ;)...i love this stuff too
thanks erik...are you refering to me or the bow  ;)  :laugh: