« previous next »
Pages: 1 2 [3]

Author Topic: 45# Yew (pic heavy)  (Read 8485 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Siyah Later

  • Member
  • Posts: 28
Re: 45# Yew (pic heavy)
« Reply #30 on: May 17, 2016, 04:23:38 pm »
Very cool bow, looks great all around.  Using a knot for the tip overlays is a neat idea; must've been a pretty big knot.
Logged

Offline DC

  • Member
  • Posts: 10,396
Re: 45# Yew (pic heavy)
« Reply #31 on: May 17, 2016, 05:03:36 pm »
Quote from: Pat B on May 17, 2016, 08:54:14 am
Hey DC, I think you're getting the hang of this bow building stuff. Very nice bow!   8)

I've got a few more to go. I think I'm still overbuilding. I haven't broken any so I must be doing something wrong :D :D :D

As to the knot tips. Branches usually have tighter rings and are denser than the rest of the tree. The spur of the knot looked even denser to me. Hopefully even though it's yew it will be tough enough. I just couldn't pass up that color.
« Last Edit: May 17, 2016, 05:09:41 pm by DC »
Logged

Offline Badly Bent

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,750
Re: 45# Yew (pic heavy)
« Reply #32 on: May 17, 2016, 07:44:29 pm »
Cool bow!
Logged
I ain't broke but I'm badly bent.

Offline Marc St Louis

  • Administrator
  • Member
  • Posts: 7,877
  • Keep it flexible
    • Marc's Bows and Arrows
Re: 45# Yew (pic heavy)
« Reply #33 on: May 17, 2016, 09:55:15 pm »
Very nice
Logged
Home of heat-treating, Corbeil, On.  Canada

Marc@Ironwoodbowyer.com

Offline Weylin

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,296
Re: 45# Yew (pic heavy)
« Reply #34 on: May 17, 2016, 10:28:21 pm »
Nice bow, DC! I love the idea of the knot overlays. I might have to steal that sometime. The tiller looks great.
Logged

Offline Carson (CMB)

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,319
Re: 45# Yew (pic heavy)
« Reply #35 on: May 19, 2016, 12:13:24 pm »
Beautiful bow DC.  Like Weylin, I am stealing the yew knot overlay thing  >:D  Anybody who has worled a piece of knotty yew, knows how hard they are.

Top notch work!
Logged
"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 DC

  • Member
  • Posts: 10,396
Re: 45# Yew (pic heavy)
« Reply #36 on: May 19, 2016, 12:16:12 pm »
I know this one piece of knot is good but I was thinking about others. Do you think Doug Fir would work or would the pitch make gluing tough if not impossible?
Logged

Offline Onebowonder

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,495
Re: 45# Yew (pic heavy)
« Reply #37 on: May 24, 2016, 03:29:56 pm »
That's a beautiful bow sir.  I particularly like the FD pic...

OneBow
Logged

Offline Thunder

  • Member
  • Posts: 240
Re: 45# Yew (pic heavy)
« Reply #38 on: May 24, 2016, 03:42:24 pm »
Nice work!  8)

Cheers
Thunder
Logged
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born...and the day you find out why."  Mark Twain

Offline Strichev

  • Member
  • Posts: 172
Re: 45# Yew (pic heavy)
« Reply #39 on: May 26, 2016, 01:27:43 am »
I don't feel entitled to comment on it... all I can say is that it's an inspiration!
Logged

Offline penderbender

  • Member
  • Posts: 733
  • island life...
Re: 45# Yew (pic heavy)
« Reply #40 on: May 26, 2016, 01:40:26 am »
Doug fir knots are worth a try! Those are some sweet nocks! Where abouts on the island you live DC?
Logged

Offline DC

  • Member
  • Posts: 10,396
Re: 45# Yew (pic heavy)
« Reply #41 on: May 26, 2016, 11:51:34 am »
Campbell River.
Logged

Offline dantolin

  • Member
  • Posts: 175
Re: 45# Yew (pic heavy)
« Reply #42 on: May 26, 2016, 07:10:41 pm »
Nice bow!!  :)
Logged
Pages: 1 2 [3]
« previous next »