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Offline Whiskeyjet

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Sturgeon Backed Yew/Trade stave from High Desert
« on: December 22, 2020, 03:04:30 pm »
Took me a little while to remember to post this, I finished up this bow way back around May I think.  Many thanks to High Desert, who traded this really excellent stave to me 3 or so years ago now I think.  Finally decided I was ready to give it my best shot last spring.  It's 64" TTT,  gently flipped tips, and pulls 60# at 28"  I was fooling around with handle design, and made it a little longer than I should have in hindsight.  This gave me a little more set than I'd have liked and string angle around 90 degrees at F/D.  It is somewhat decrowned, and backed with sturgeon, first time for me with either.  Horn overlays, did a double inlay for the arrow pass made of walnut and mother of pearl.  This was my second attempt with yew, the first didn't go so well with an extremely wonky (and cheap!) stave I mostly bought for practice.  I probably put too much pressure on myself because it was a really generous trade from Eric.  Didn't want to mess it up!  I can't say I did everything perfect, but I can say that this is the best shooter I've yet made.  No chrono available, but using a sound recording app on my computer I could estimate around 160 fps average speed from 20 yds.  It is very accurate when I do my part (which is asking a lot these days). 










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Re: Sturgeon Backed Yew/Trade stave from High Desert
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2020, 03:56:18 pm »
Very nice . My only yew is a bow I got in a very generous trade with DVS hunter. I really like it.
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Re: Sturgeon Backed Yew/Trade stave from High Desert
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2020, 07:12:59 pm »
Beautiful finish work, nice job . Pappy
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Offline PaSteve

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Re: Sturgeon Backed Yew/Trade stave from High Desert
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2020, 07:17:05 pm »
That came out great. Really like that arrow pass & sturgeon skins.
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Offline bassman

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Re: Sturgeon Backed Yew/Trade stave from High Desert
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2020, 10:59:01 pm »
Nice bow. well done.

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Re: Sturgeon Backed Yew/Trade stave from High Desert
« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2020, 03:00:29 pm »
Sweet bow whiskey jet, beautiful everything. And hello from reddit!

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Re: Sturgeon Backed Yew/Trade stave from High Desert
« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2020, 04:34:27 pm »
Well, you certainly did it justice. Great workmanship on that piece. I really like the grip and arrow pass.
Eric

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Re: Sturgeon Backed Yew/Trade stave from High Desert
« Reply #7 on: December 25, 2020, 10:43:55 pm »
Dang, you sure did put some work into that piece. Congrats!
Mike

Offline Whiskeyjet

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Re: Sturgeon Backed Yew/Trade stave from High Desert
« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2020, 11:15:49 am »
Sweet bow whiskey jet, beautiful everything. And hello from reddit!

Hi Dan!

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Re: Sturgeon Backed Yew/Trade stave from High Desert
« Reply #9 on: December 26, 2020, 11:18:20 am »
Well, you certainly did it justice. Great workmanship on that piece. I really like the grip and arrow pass.

Thanks Eric! Couldn't have done it without such sweet piece of wood to start it from.

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Re: Sturgeon Backed Yew/Trade stave from High Desert
« Reply #10 on: December 26, 2020, 01:30:22 pm »
That is an excellent bow!  Great work!!

Offline maitus

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Re: Sturgeon Backed Yew/Trade stave from High Desert
« Reply #11 on: December 26, 2020, 01:45:42 pm »
Beautiful bow. I like everything. Especially sturgeon skin and grip and tiller and shape and finish :D...
Where could I get some sturgeon skin from?

Offline Whiskeyjet

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Re: Sturgeon Backed Yew/Trade stave from High Desert
« Reply #12 on: December 26, 2020, 05:50:37 pm »
Beautiful bow. I like everything. Especially sturgeon skin and grip and tiller and shape and finish :D...
Where could I get some sturgeon skin from?

Thanks for the kind words! Sometimes they are in the trading post.  Weylin has them available sometimes I think?  I got mine from a guy named Michael Weinberger.  If he is on here I don't know his handle.

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Re: Sturgeon Backed Yew/Trade stave from High Desert
« Reply #13 on: December 26, 2020, 07:10:51 pm »
Thank You :)!