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Offline Dauntless

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« on: April 21, 2013, 06:55:19 pm »
 This is a decent red oak board backed with a thin slat of bamboo. The backing has a couple cracks in it and what could be fungus at the nodes but is doing just fine. The nock overlays are red spalted Manitoba maple (acer negundo) from a tree that died at my parent's house in Winnipeg.

Specs are 66½" nock to nock, a little less than 1¼" wide at the handle. Draws 40 pounds at 28 but can be drawn to 30 without incurring more set. The glue up was done straight and the just unstringed set is 1½".

It's a very simple bow, tillered in an afternoon a couple weeks after the glue up. It would have done better with some reflexing and/or heat treating.
Tiller looks a little off from my inability to draw an arrow without canting the bow.






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Offline missilemaster

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Re: bbro elb
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2013, 06:59:09 pm »
Great tiller!
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Offline Thesquirrelslinger

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« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2013, 07:09:55 pm »
Its great.
Nice job.
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« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2013, 07:19:24 pm »
Looks good. Thanks for the pics.
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Offline BL

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Re: bbro elb
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2013, 08:23:18 pm »
I still don't like the look of red oak, but boy do you make it hard to keep hatin'.  Nice work.
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Offline Dauntless

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« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2013, 08:29:23 pm »
I really don't like red oak furniture, something about the open grain and the thick plastic finish so often used on it.  For bows though, with a simple wax/oil finish that doesn't make the pores come out, it has such a subtle beauty that I find myself always coming back to.

This is my tenth red oak bow, I'll be making many more.
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Offline kevinsmith5

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Re: bbro elb
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2013, 08:50:42 pm »
Bamboo backed red oak?
Think I could do that with white oak?
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Offline Dauntless

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Re: bbro elb
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2013, 08:52:52 pm »
Quote from: kevinsmith5 on April 21, 2013, 08:50:42 pm
Bamboo backed red oak?
Think I could do that with white oak?

Absolutely
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Offline lesken2011

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Re: bbro elb
« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2013, 11:32:27 pm »
Nice job and bend on that one for sure!!
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Offline IdahoMatt

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Re: bbro elb
« Reply #9 on: April 22, 2013, 01:11:59 am »
Love the bend.   8)
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Re: bbro elb
« Reply #10 on: April 22, 2013, 04:19:57 am »
Great bow. Excellent  :)
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Offline Dag

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Re: bbro elb
« Reply #11 on: April 22, 2013, 03:37:48 pm »
Great job Dauntless! Nice tip overlays as well
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: bbro elb
« Reply #12 on: April 22, 2013, 03:55:41 pm »
 Thats a nice bbro bow,... bro. :)
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Offline DarkSoul

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Re: bbro elb
« Reply #13 on: April 22, 2013, 07:20:51 pm »
Very sweet bow, Martin. Gracious bend, and a very slim design. That bamboo is (just like the other bbro's you made) very well proportioned. Is it tonkin? I think so. The lower limb seems a bit stiffer than the upper, which is probably just right.
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Offline Dauntless

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Re: bbro elb
« Reply #14 on: April 22, 2013, 08:00:52 pm »
It's the kind of bamboo you find outside because someone threw it out. I'm assuming one of the quick growing lumber varieties sold to walmart or a dollar store as a cheap curtain rod. I'm completely sold to the powers of a trapped bamboo backing. Easy to make with an agressive rasp, even easier with a beltsander.
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