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Offline Dauntless

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A fun little red oak character bow
« on: June 05, 2014, 06:18:10 pm »
This bow was made from a stave that might have been more suitable for the firewood pile. Lots of knots and twists on this one. I probably spent more time with the heat gun than with other tools. I could have heated more kinks out at that.

She's a reflex deflex bow with a very smooth 25 lbs of draw at 28". The upper limb is a little longer than the lower one. 63 inches nock to nock, 1 1/2" wide in the limb although it's wider around the knots. I don't know how much set it took with all the heat gun sessions.




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Offline IdahoMatt

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Re: A fun little red oak character bow
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2014, 06:27:53 pm »
That's a beautiful looking bow. 

Offline Pat B

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Re: A fun little red oak character bow
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2014, 06:42:26 pm »
Very cool bow.  8)
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Offline Badly Bent

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Re: A fun little red oak character bow
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2014, 07:43:27 pm »
Nice, I really like the character of the back.
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Offline okie64

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Re: A fun little red oak character bow
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2014, 10:56:42 pm »
That is a great looking bow! Dont see many red oak character bows.

Offline hunterbob

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Re: A fun little red oak character bow
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2014, 11:05:31 pm »
Congrats on a cool character bow. I love the looks of them.

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Re: A fun little red oak character bow
« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2014, 06:23:02 am »
Nice job,should be fun to shoot. :)
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Offline Josh B

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Re: A fun little red oak character bow
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2014, 12:14:04 pm »
Cool!  Josh