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Offline Mo_coon-catcher

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Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
« on: June 27, 2018, 05:25:13 pm »
I finally did all the finish work to the hackberry bendy handle bow. I ended up getting it to pull 40# at 26”. I heated in about 1” reflex when I heat treated and it ended up resting essentially flat. Though after shooting it has about 1” of temp set that creeps back after a few minutes. It’s about 53” n2n, 1 3/8” to the scallop hills and about 1 1/4” to the valley. It has 3/8” single side nocks with cow horn overlays. The handle has a built up cork with leather wrap. It weighs in at 13 ounces with te string. Finish is just one heavy coat of linseed oil, followed by 10-12 coats of truoil. It also has very tight growth rings that are hard for me to get in a picture but are apparent in person. This is the one I plan to put in the auction at mojam this year.

Thanks for looking,
Kyle
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Offline Mo_coon-catcher

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Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2018, 05:26:07 pm »
A few more pictures

Kyle
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Offline Dvshunter

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Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2018, 05:30:36 pm »
Thats a nice one! I cant wait to see it at the auction!
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Offline Bob Barnes

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Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2018, 08:59:58 pm »
 :OK  great job!
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Offline penderbender

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Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2018, 10:14:11 pm »
Another nice one Kyle. Someone's gonna love that.  Cheers- Brendan
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2018, 02:17:52 pm »
Wow, she's a fancy filly what with those wibbly-wobbly bits on the limbs! Someone is gonna be happy to win her hand, and a lot of others are gonna be green with envy.
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Offline PaulN/KS

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Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2018, 07:11:47 am »
Lookin' Good Kyle!  :OK
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Offline PaulN/KS

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Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2018, 08:30:31 am »
Just wanted to bring this post back up...
I won the bow at the Mojam auction and it's better looking in person as than the pictures. It shoots as good as it looks too. Nice work Kyle.  :OK
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Offline Mo_coon-catcher

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Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2018, 12:09:24 pm »
Thank you sir. Glad you like it. I hope you don’t mind the single side nocks, I’m starting to become addicted to those things for smaller tips.

Kyle
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Offline PaulN/KS

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Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2018, 02:08:30 pm »
With those tiny tips there's no room for a second nock...  :o  ;)
Actually they look kinda cool but I did swap out the skinny, double loop string for a fatter single loop string with a bowyers knot for the lower limb. Seems to work better for my stringing technique and keeps the string attached for hanging it up by the string keeper.
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Offline Danzn Bar

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Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2018, 06:07:00 pm »
Hey Kyle,
love the hackberry, how did it smell during heat treat? :)
DBar
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Offline Accipiter

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Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2018, 06:07:59 pm »
Dang, nice curve on that thing. Make that wood work!
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Offline upstatenybowyer

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Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2018, 07:50:20 pm »
Nice one coon.  (-S
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Offline wizardgoat

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Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
« Reply #13 on: July 27, 2018, 12:54:19 pm »
Nice one Kyle! You do anything with that yew stave yet?
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Offline Mo_coon-catcher

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Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
« Reply #14 on: July 27, 2018, 01:12:10 pm »
Thanks guys. The stave smelled sort of like sugar cookies while heat treating. Sure beats them smell of the persimmon I just heat treated last night.
I haven’t started on thenyew just yet. I was waiting until I fully made up my mind as to what to do with it. And getting the confidence to properly execute the design. I was debating between a hedeby and a Mary rose. I’ve decided on a Mary rose. I’ll take some measurements and pick one that will fit the stave well. That and I keep having more projects pop up. I couldn’t build much over the last month, but now I should be free for a while, so I can get te other projects out of the way to focus on a couple fun ones for myself.

Kyle
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