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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Kingfisher: 60# @ 28" Osage Static with Brush Nocks 54" - MAKES MEAT!
« on: December 21, 2013, 10:28:58 pm »
Finally had some nice weather for a bow photoshoot.  I ended up taking lots of pics...bear with me.  This is a bow I had been working on for a while.  Stave was a well seasoned shorter piece of osage from crooket arrow.   I got a little aggressive bending the tips and lifted some good splinters.  Rasped this down flat and glued on chunks of yew.  The yew ended up developing checks in drying, but I got that licked with a little horn lamination as "runners" on the outer edge of the brush nocks and then also in the valley of the upper nock.  The bow is backed with whitetail rawhide applied with hideglue. The tip overlays are bison horn.  The bow draws 60# even at 28" but I find myself shooting it at a shorter draw of about 26" to 27".  It is 54" as measured straight-line nock to nock. It has enough set after shooting that the recurve tips lay just ahead of the handle.  Reflexed an inch after resting. The grip is cane wrap.  It put up 164 fps after a long session of shooting with a 9.5 gpp arrow.  The finish is shellac followed by alternating coats of raw linseed oil and a string wax blend I make from beeswax and fir rosin.  This bow was a labor of love.  It is a joy to shoot and maneuvers nicely through the woods.
















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Offline Trapper Rob

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Re: Kingfisher: 60# @ 28" Osage Static with Brush Nocks 54" (PIC HEAVY!)
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2013, 10:31:58 pm »
Sweet bow Carson. 8)
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: Kingfisher: 60# @ 28" Osage Static with Brush Nocks 54" (PIC HEAVY!)
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2013, 10:32:29 pm »
Awesome brush nocks.
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Kingfisher: 60# @ 28" Osage Static with Brush Nocks 54" (PIC HEAVY!)
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2013, 10:34:30 pm »














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the mono chord, the initial rune of fine art
The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and..." Maurice Thompso

Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Kingfisher: 60# @ 28" Osage Static with Brush Nocks 54" (PIC HEAVY!)
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2013, 10:36:55 pm »
Very cool! 
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Kingfisher: 60# @ 28" Osage Static with Brush Nocks 54" (PIC HEAVY!)
« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2013, 10:38:12 pm »
And the reason I named it Kingfisher was this guy who was scolding me for a bit while I was taking photos. 

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"The bow is the old first lyre,
the mono chord, the initial rune of fine art
The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and..." Maurice Thompso

Offline rps3

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Re: Kingfisher: 60# @ 28" Osage Static with Brush Nocks 54" (PIC HEAVY!)
« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2013, 10:39:45 pm »
I will be going back to look at this bow more than once for sure. Outstanding!
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Offline Arrowind

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Re: Kingfisher: 60# @ 28" Osage Static with Brush Nocks 54" (PIC HEAVY!)
« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2013, 10:40:42 pm »
Now THAT is a nice bow!  What a work of art!  Truly inspiring.
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Offline Dave 55

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Re: Kingfisher: 60# @ 28" Osage Static with Brush Nocks 54" (PIC HEAVY!)
« Reply #8 on: December 21, 2013, 10:58:19 pm »
What a beautiful bow,that took alot of talent.
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Offline SLIMBOB

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Re: Kingfisher: 60# @ 28" Osage Static with Brush Nocks 54" (PIC HEAVY!)
« Reply #9 on: December 21, 2013, 10:59:30 pm »
Awesome!
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Offline Danzn Bar

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Re: Kingfisher: 60# @ 28" Osage Static with Brush Nocks 54" (PIC HEAVY!)
« Reply #10 on: December 21, 2013, 11:04:43 pm »
 8) Way cool  8)   + 1 Osage Outlaw
You really got into those tips..............
Very nice , how many arrows you got through her???
Dbar

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Offline dbb

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Re: Kingfisher: 60# @ 28" Osage Static with Brush Nocks 54" (PIC HEAVY!)
« Reply #11 on: December 21, 2013, 11:09:27 pm »
WOW!  :o Great work on that one,truly a beauty!
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Kingfisher: 60# @ 28" Osage Static with Brush Nocks 54" (PIC HEAVY!)
« Reply #12 on: December 21, 2013, 11:14:09 pm »
Thanks guys.  I don't know about talent Dave.  I think I got pretty lucky...here is a photo of the single alignment correction I made to the stave.   
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"The bow is the old first lyre,
the mono chord, the initial rune of fine art
The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and..." Maurice Thompso

Offline JonW

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Re: Kingfisher: 60# @ 28" Osage Static with Brush Nocks 54" (PIC HEAVY!)
« Reply #13 on: December 21, 2013, 11:22:03 pm »
Stunning!
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Offline Will H

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Re: Kingfisher: 60# @ 28" Osage Static with Brush Nocks 54" (PIC HEAVY!)
« Reply #14 on: December 21, 2013, 11:26:27 pm »
You pulled that off nicely! Love the brush nocks  :o you are an artist  8)
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