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Offline adb

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53# tri lam
« on: November 25, 2012, 12:07:18 pm »
Another one just finished up yesterday. This is a tri-lam: maple back, ipe core, osage belly. It came out to 53#@28". Black ebony tip overlays. Round tiller, narrow profile, stacked round belly. 1 1/4" at the grip, tapering to 3/8" nocks. Round maple inlaid arrow pass, to shoot off the fist. 1/2" of set.
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Offline adb

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Re: 53# tri lam
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2012, 12:07:59 pm »
Money shot...
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Offline adb

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Re: 53# tri lam
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2012, 12:09:43 pm »
Good mojo with this bow! First arrow at 10 yards... in the gold... second arrow... a Robin Hood! Kinda made the hair on my neck stand up!

I kinda hate to see this one go!
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Offline Zion

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Re: 53# tri lam
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2012, 01:15:07 pm »
how the heck to do you make bows this fast??? Another nice one! And another arrow bites the dust! I've only done a robin hood once, probably at like 12-15 yards, but mostly luck. It saddened me that my perfect arrow got it's neck shattered though!
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Offline Weylin

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Re: 53# tri lam
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2012, 02:01:30 pm »
Beautiful tiller!
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Offline Easternarcher

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Re: 53# tri lam
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2012, 02:02:40 pm »
ADB, that is one of the prettiest ELBs I've seen!...
Love the wood combo too.
How do you find maple as the backing?Is that vertical grain maple?
I haven't used it yet, but may have to try one.
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Offline Eastman

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Re: 53# tri lam
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2012, 02:20:48 pm »
Nice work! I can't wait to make my first tri-lam elb ;D
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Offline Dvshunter

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Re: 53# tri lam
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2012, 02:50:23 pm »
Nice! Another fine example of your woodworking skills.
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Offline Bowman

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Re: 53# tri lam
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2012, 03:45:46 pm »
Nice elb and fine tiller. Excellent workmanship. :-)
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: 53# tri lam
« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2012, 03:52:10 pm »
Seems that someone with the incredible talent at making museum quality arrows would learn to spread out your shots a little!  I just naturally tend to use ALL of my targets.   >:D

Something mighty elegant about that bow, simply elegant.
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Offline adb

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Re: 53# tri lam
« Reply #10 on: November 25, 2012, 04:29:42 pm »
Quote from: JW_Halverson on November 25, 2012, 03:52:10 pm
Seems that someone with the incredible talent at making museum quality arrows would learn to spread out your shots a little!  I just naturally tend to use ALL of my targets.   >:D

Something mighty elegant about that bow, simply elegant.

I don't shoot those fancy-pants self nock insert custom arrows. Too expensive! Those are reserved for the paying customers. I stick with the cheap-ass plastic nocked basic arrows.
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: 53# tri lam
« Reply #11 on: November 25, 2012, 04:34:40 pm »
Yup, nice.
I like the tip overlays which still give the flavour of a horn nock.
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Offline Jesse

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Re: 53# tri lam
« Reply #12 on: November 25, 2012, 04:38:28 pm »
Very nice. Bows like that can be so nice to shoot.
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Re: 53# tri lam
« Reply #13 on: November 25, 2012, 09:50:53 pm »
Beautiful bend n colors  ;)
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Offline steve b.

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Re: 53# tri lam
« Reply #14 on: November 25, 2012, 09:56:04 pm »
Does "adb" stand for "ambitiously determined bowyer", or "absolutely driven bowmaker", or something like that?
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