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Offline BowEd

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Re: Plum ALB
« Reply #30 on: March 13, 2017, 09:57:35 pm »
Jeff....Did you make the belly of that plum flat or rounded?
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Offline upstatenybowyer

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Re: Plum ALB
« Reply #31 on: March 13, 2017, 10:53:42 pm »
Very shallow D section.

GR, special education grades 3-5. I enjoy it. Been at it for a little over 10 years. Were supposed to get that storm as well but I doubt if school will close. Our SI is a die hard for keeping it open. Have fun building!  :BB

I take that back, no school!
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"Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that remains constant in his hands."

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Offline H Rhodes

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Re: Plum ALB
« Reply #32 on: March 14, 2017, 08:44:16 pm »
Your tiller looks great!  I have yet to find a decent plum stave in my neck of the woods.  Most of them are gnarly, short and twisted around here.  That sure is pretty wood and you did a great job with it. 
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Re: Plum ALB
« Reply #33 on: March 15, 2017, 04:18:21 am »
Nice bow :) I've been looking for plum for ever...the only ones I've seen are in the garden of a castle....they would require a midnight visit dressed in black to cut ;)
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Offline upstatenybowyer

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Re: Plum ALB
« Reply #34 on: March 15, 2017, 09:33:08 am »
Howard and Mike,

Thank you both for looking.  :) There's no doubt that it's a hard wood to find. My luck came when I remembered a friend of my Dad's who owns a bunch of land outside the city. I got permission to poke around and after an hour of searching... Eureka! As soon as time and weather permit I'm going back!
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"Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that remains constant in his hands."

Nigerian Proverb

Offline rps3

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Re: Plum ALB
« Reply #35 on: March 15, 2017, 09:51:36 pm »
Nice bow, makes me want to learn a little more about plum and try to find some.
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Offline Springbuck

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Re: Plum ALB
« Reply #36 on: March 16, 2017, 12:48:48 pm »
"the string loop forced one end to "de-laminate" on a growth ring about 6" down the bow from the tip. So I glued it up with CA, wrapped it with sinew and put overlays on. The handle wood also popped off, so I glued that up and wrapped it with sinew as well."

This is funny because I have literally had every single problem with plum I can imagine.........except this one.  It checks while drying, has wildly barber-poled grain, warps, bends, fights me on heat straightening, and always has a thousand knots where I live, but never this..... And despite all the issues, I am starting to love it, too.  I have a really high success rate (not breaking bows) despite the drying issues.

H Rhodes: "Most of them are gnarly, short and twisted around here."  I didn't know there was any other kind!  But, when I can take a 36" X 2-1/2" leaning, curved branch or sucker of twisted, knotty wood, saw it lengthwise with a chainsaw, splice it, wrestle it to symmetry, and still make a mighty shooter, well, I'm cutting all I can find.....
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