« previous next »
Pages: 1 [2]

Author Topic: 61 inch Black Locust  (Read 7197 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

blackhawk

  • Guest
Re: 61 inch Black Locust
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2013, 07:36:19 am »
Happy hunting with it ;)
Logged

Offline Japbow

  • Member
  • Posts: 113
Re: 61 inch Black Locust
« Reply #16 on: October 17, 2013, 08:34:48 am »

      Damn! that's a simple and sweet looking piece of
      black locust! I've got a BL stave soon to become
      a bow, and I think I'm gonna steal your tip design!

      Superb!

      Japbow.
Logged

Offline johnfolchetti

  • Member
  • Posts: 184
Re: 61 inch Black Locust
« Reply #17 on: October 17, 2013, 10:22:25 am »
Lovely work Russ.
Logged

Offline PEARL DRUMS

  • Member
  • Posts: 14,079
  • }}}--CK-->
Re: 61 inch Black Locust
« Reply #18 on: October 17, 2013, 10:24:47 am »
That's pretty good work for a short locust bow, nice job!
Logged
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 IdahoMatt

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,093
Re: 61 inch Black Locust
« Reply #19 on: October 17, 2013, 12:00:00 pm »
That definitely looks like it will get the job done.  Nice tiller.  Love the tips on that one.
Logged

Offline Cameroo

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,579
    • Cam's Stuff
Re: 61 inch Black Locust
« Reply #20 on: October 17, 2013, 12:47:57 pm »
Nice looking bow.  Is it just me or does it look like the top limb is a bit stiffer than the lower? Just wondering if it is,  and if so, was that intentional? 
Logged

Offline huisme

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,036
  • I'm Marc, but not that Marc.
Re: 61 inch Black Locust
« Reply #21 on: October 17, 2013, 02:47:57 pm »
Quote from: WoodMunkey157 on October 17, 2013, 05:07:36 am
killer bow!

I have a ton of this stuff cut and seasoned, thought it was osage lol. did you chase a ring or go off the sap wood?

Great job.

It's safer to chase a ring, but I've made four sapwood-on BL bows that have been working for over five hundred arrows each.My impression is that it's more brittle than the heartwood, so the tender handling has probably been what saved them from the burn pile.
Logged
50#@26"
Black locust. Black locust everywhere.
Mollegabets all day long.
Might as well make them short, save some wood to keep warm.

Offline RyanR

  • Member
  • Posts: 833
Re: 61 inch Black Locust
« Reply #22 on: October 17, 2013, 05:09:17 pm »
Nice looking bow!
Logged

Offline tallpine

  • Member
  • Posts: 183
  • East Texas
Re: 61 inch Black Locust
« Reply #23 on: October 17, 2013, 05:17:08 pm »
Nice work, beautiful job on the string grooves
Logged

Offline RBLusthaus

  • Member
  • Posts: 753
Re: 61 inch Black Locust
« Reply #24 on: October 17, 2013, 06:28:48 pm »
Thanks guys for the kind words.  Some more pics below. 

hrhodes - yes, the shelf is built up leather scraps dyed black. 
Adb - pic of back profile attached
Mikekrswick and pappy - although the handle is meant to be stiff, I agree that it looks a little too stiff out of the fades.  Since she was shooting great at a draw of 28 on a 61 (surprised myself)
inch bow, I decided to not mess with her any further. 
Woodmonkey - I chased a ring after removing the sap wood.   I know there are guys who will tell you the sap wood works well for a back, but I always treat BL like Osage and remove it. 
Japbow- go for it!!!!!!  Copying is the nicest form of flattery. 
John - thanks for the kind words.  It's been too long - when we getting together to fling and drink a few?   
Cameroo- due to a knot and the grain going loopy around it just a few inches below the recurve on the top, makes it look like it is stiffer, but the gizmo tells me otherwise.  A tape measure has the top limb in positive tiller by a hair.  You can see the knot and loopy was in the pic below of the profile. 
Russ
Logged

Offline steve b.

  • Member
  • Posts: 999
Re: 61 inch Black Locust
« Reply #25 on: October 17, 2013, 07:11:11 pm »
Love it.
Logged

Offline Pat B

  • Administrator
  • Member
  • Posts: 37,618
Re: 61 inch Black Locust
« Reply #26 on: October 17, 2013, 11:43:02 pm »
Nice little locust bow.  8)
Logged
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC

Offline Badly Bent

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,750
Re: 61 inch Black Locust
« Reply #27 on: October 17, 2013, 11:53:09 pm »
Always like seeing your locust bows Russ, thats a nice one there too.
Logged
I ain't broke but I'm badly bent.

Offline Pappy

  • Global Moderator
  • Member
  • Posts: 32,137
  • if you have to ask you wouldn't understand ,Tenn.
Re: 61 inch Black Locust
« Reply #28 on: October 18, 2013, 06:03:07 am »
Don't blame you there,looks like it is shooting great,needs to be in the woods. :) :)
  Pappy
Logged
Clarksville,Tennessee
TwinOaks Bowhunters
Life is Good

Offline RBLusthaus

  • Member
  • Posts: 753
Re: 61 inch Black Locust
« Reply #29 on: October 18, 2013, 01:23:50 pm »
Quote from: Badly Bent on October 17, 2013, 11:53:09 pm
Always like seeing your locust bows Russ, thats a nice one there too.

Thanks BB, got one more coming soon and then RO and Hickory.  Too many woods to sample and work and obligation always seem to get in the way.  :-)

Russ
Logged
Pages: 1 [2]
« previous next »