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Offline bubby

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Red oak board bow
« on: February 04, 2017, 09:55:18 pm »





This is a simple board bow, a few years back desert disciple  came over to work on a bow, he had two red oak boards glued up with the handles glued on and rest cut in but not tillered at all or very little, while working on one we stemed the tips and bent them on my caul. The other bow we got shooting but he left this one here planning on a return visit. Well he up and moved and I'vebeen kicking it around till last week. 66-1/2" ntn and pulling44#@27" shoots really well only 1-1/2" wide till around a foot from the tips and i put some horn on the tips
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Offline bubby

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Re: Red oak board bow
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2017, 09:56:37 pm »
Money shot for you bow porn guys😆
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Offline BowEd

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Re: Red oak board bow
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2017, 10:03:45 pm »
Trade mark work by you again bub.Looks sweet.A right hand shooter to boot.Like the handle too.That oughta answer a few questions lately about glue on handles.
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Offline upstatenybowyer

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Re: Red oak board bow
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2017, 10:48:48 pm »
Now that's a nice bow. The money shot is all that and a bag of chips  8). Love the handle
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Offline ty_in_ND

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Re: Red oak board bow
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2017, 10:58:17 pm »
Bubby, that's truly a splendid bow you finished! It's very cool to see the humble red oak board bow with those curves.
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Offline bubby

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Re: Red oak board bow
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2017, 11:12:07 pm »
Thanks guys, red oak gets a bad rap and so do board bows in general,  i trapped rhe back some and this prolly has 140 or so arrows flung and is sitting with almost no set, go figure huh😆
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Red oak board bow
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2017, 11:19:20 pm »
I am offended by the insulting and dismissive term "board"!  These are commercially available industrially decrowned staves! Or CAIDS, if you will.

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Offline ty_in_ND

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Re: Red oak board bow
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2017, 11:52:32 pm »
Quote from: JW_Halverson on February 04, 2017, 11:19:20 pm
I am offended by the insulting and dismissive term "board"!  These are commercially available industrially decrowned staves! Or CAIDS, if you will.

Call it what you will, that dog will hunt!

To be fair, most trilams and a good number of backed bows are board bows.  ;)

And as far as board bows getting a bad rap, I see it 2 ways. 1) Most of us start on board bows, so those first few learning experiences might skew our perception. 2) A great bowyer could make a nice bow out of most woods that you can get a bow out of.  However, given the choice between a red oak CAIDS (love that acronym!) and a primo piece of osage or yew, I think most would leave the oak to be made into furniture.

With that said, I'm definitely going to be working on some red oak boards in the near future, for practice at the very least.  If a person can make a sweet bow from red oak, I'd bet they would do well with the "A List" woods.
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Offline loon

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Re: Red oak board bow
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2017, 06:38:37 am »
Nice!
So recurves/flipped tip bows shouldn't have a pyramid or eiffel profile?
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Offline Stixnstones

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Re: Red oak board bow
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2017, 07:39:11 am »
love it! sweet lookin bow Bub's
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Offline Badly Bent

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Re: Red oak board bow
« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2017, 07:58:26 am »
Looks very nice Bubby, nice grain in that piece of oak.
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: Red oak board bow
« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2017, 08:07:05 am »
Thats a fine bow. Nicely done. Jawge
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Offline Stick Bender

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Re: Red oak board bow
« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2017, 09:14:30 am »
Very cool Bub I like the handle nice job !
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Offline hunterbob

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Re: Red oak board bow
« Reply #13 on: February 05, 2017, 09:44:06 am »
Nice looking bow. I have always liked the grain in oak.
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Offline Springbuck

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Re: Red oak board bow
« Reply #14 on: February 05, 2017, 10:14:26 am »
 Nice, Bubby...pretty bows, great tiller.

 I think red oak gets a bad rap, too.  It seems it varies a lot in quality and density, for one thing.  I bought a flatsawn 4/4 nom. board once that had TWO growth rings end to end, one of which was 1/2" thick by itself.  That stuff was AMAZING for oak.  Then you pic up a quartersawn board with a ba-zilllion thin rings and a terrible thickness ratio, and it's like you are holding a piece of redwood.


 I spend a lot off time on other sites trying to help young, first time guys get through Sam Harper's website and get their first board bow done.  Most of the failures seem to come from simply not starting with the RIGHT board, or not understanding how to build up and then narrow a handle (since most of them are after a pyramid or American flatbow after reading Sam's site.)  I send a lot of guys to George's site, too.

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