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Offline paco664

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red oak w hickory back... finished
« on: April 17, 2015, 12:22:09 am »
been working on this one for a while and there are a couple photos of it on here... but i finally put all the finishing touches on it and it is DONE...

66.75" nock to nock redoak board with a 1/8th" hickory backing... glued up with tb2
pulls 54#@29"
leather handle wrap with floppy leather rest.
finish is cherry danish oil 5coats and 3 coats of tru-oil rubbed with 0000 steel wool between coats to a satin finish
belly was toasted in reflex and it holds 1" reflex on each limb
twisted up a 14strand string of 50lb spectra with a spectra serving...

hopefully tomorrow after work i will run to the indoor range at bass pro shop and stick a few arrows in a few targets to see how it shoots...

here are the finished photos with the money shot *(it looks weird because my photographer is over a foot shorter than me and in a eternally bad mood)
back

belly toasted to chocolate brown

4.5" brace

leather wrap handle and arrow rest

and full draw featuring yours truly and bonus sister in law loafing on my sofa...
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Offline Peacebow_Coos

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Re: red oak w hickory back... finished
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2015, 12:55:27 am »
Nice work, maybe a bit stiff in mid limbs?  Sure it'll spit an arrow at 54#!
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Re: red oak w hickory back... finished
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2015, 01:17:32 am »
Quote from: Peacebow_Coos on April 17, 2015, 12:55:27 am
Nice work, maybe a bit stiff in mid limbs?  Sure it'll spit an arrow at 54#!
here is a older fd photo sin arrow and when photographer was in better mood... and thanks!

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Offline H Rhodes

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Re: red oak w hickory back... finished
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2015, 02:27:09 am »
Looks like it ought to be a sweet shooter to me.  Nice work.
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Re: red oak w hickory back... finished
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2015, 09:02:26 am »
Nice job
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Re: red oak w hickory back... finished
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2015, 10:16:09 am »
Like those bendy handle sticks.  Congrats!!
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Re: red oak w hickory back... finished
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2015, 10:57:45 pm »
Went shot the bow today. . Bass pro indoor range. .. it shot excellent fast n flat. .. scared the poo out of me tho after about 100 arrows...Pulled it and heard a "tic" pulled a second time another slight tic. ..

Inspected the bow completely and found nothing.. so i decided it would "go or blow" and pulled it and let fly...

Nothing. . Put another 100 or so arrows through it and no problemas. ..

I am 99.8%sure the sound i heard was the polyurithane finish i put on (and didn't sand the final coat) was protesting. ..

It shoots flat and fast. . At 20yds (indoor range) the arrow seemed to hit the target in an instant...

My only complaint is i broke 4 arrows on metal mounting brackets at the range (bad mounting designs)
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Offline hunterbob

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Re: red oak w hickory back... finished
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2015, 06:55:45 am »
Sweet looking bend on that one. Looks like it will fling an arrow.
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Offline Parnell

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Re: red oak w hickory back... finished
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2015, 11:31:16 am »
Looks like you are really off and running, now.  Good work!  Glad to see you are having fun with it all. :)
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