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Offline Badger

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Recent Work
« on: April 27, 2012, 11:55:31 am »
  Some of the guys have been asking me why I don't post bows or if I am still building. This is from about the last 2 weeks or so. Now that I am recently retired I will try to post more if something is unsual or I think it is interesting for some reason. Most of the bows in this picture are from very tightgrained osage, I know a lot of guys say it doesn't make good bows. I would take all of it I could get my hands on, extremely dense wood, easy to chase rings on as they are only about 1/20 th of an inch thick. These bows go from about 75# down to 40#. The 40# was supposed to be a 50# and turned out to be about the fastest pound for pound bow I have ever built. Nothing special about the bow just good wood and took real well to heat treating. The 40# is 3rd from the bottom. The top bow is tightringed osage 75#@28 sap wood still on.

Offline druid

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Re: Recent Work
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2012, 11:58:51 am »
Great work badger!!! I am glad to see your works again. How this osage with sapwood performs?

Offline JonW

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Re: Recent Work
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2012, 11:59:08 am »
love the profile on the third from the bottom. What are the specs?

Offline Bevan R.

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Re: Recent Work
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2012, 11:59:21 am »
2 Weeks?  :o
Some dandy looking bows there. I agree with the tight ring Osage. I love it.
Bowmakers are a little bent, but knappers are just plain flaky.

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Re: Recent Work
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2012, 12:37:08 pm »
 :)  ;D ....someones got the fever bad right now..i love it ;)....dont stop now :laugh:

Offline Badger

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Re: Recent Work
« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2012, 12:41:44 pm »
  Druid, I am not able to draw it back all the way for a good test but it seems to perform very well at 24". The bow was about 90# with paralell limbs and seemed sluggish when shot with 2 hands, I tapered the sides and it really seemed to behave much better.
  Jon, the little 40# bow is 64" with 1 1/2" reflex, it actually was built as a 62# bow and I had a guy who wanted a 50# so I was reducing it. Phone rang and I came back and scraped the same limb twice causing a little hinge that caused me to drop it to 40# to straighten out again. Best mistake I ever made. I shot it over the chrono with 500 grain arrows and was getting 171 fps. On my first post I said it was 3rd from the bottom, that was a mistake, it is actually second from the bottom.

Offline Kpete

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Re: Recent Work
« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2012, 12:51:56 pm »
Nice work and thanks for posting them.  I like the 7 in the middle the best.  The two on the sides are next.
Neat to see the different profiles.  Wow!  that is screamin' for that #40.

Offline Pappy

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Re: Recent Work
« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2012, 12:53:21 pm »
Nice stuff Steve,looking forward to seeing you in action next week. :) :)
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Offline ErictheViking

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Re: Recent Work
« Reply #8 on: April 27, 2012, 01:53:02 pm »
Looks like you are taking retirement pretty well.  awesome specs on the 40# screamer.
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: Recent Work
« Reply #9 on: April 27, 2012, 02:53:49 pm »
You do good work, Steve. Beautiful bows! Jawge
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: Recent Work
« Reply #10 on: April 27, 2012, 04:01:32 pm »
Huh, is that all you've done? >:D::)
Great stuff.
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Offline Josh

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Re: Recent Work
« Reply #11 on: April 27, 2012, 04:35:13 pm »
awesome!  Glad to see some of your work again!  Always inspiring. :)
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Offline Stickhead

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Re: Recent Work
« Reply #12 on: April 27, 2012, 06:25:57 pm »
Your work is always an inspiration, Steve!

Offline criveraville

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Re: Recent Work
« Reply #13 on: April 27, 2012, 08:07:55 pm »
You sure have been busy. That's a great collection there. That recurve looks sweet. ;)

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Re: Recent Work
« Reply #14 on: April 27, 2012, 10:35:06 pm »
Brings a tear to my eye looking at that beautiful collection  ;)
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