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Offline Morgan

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Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
« Reply #15 on: May 19, 2021, 08:15:02 pm »
Looks great. Good job
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Offline SLIMBOB

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Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
« Reply #16 on: May 19, 2021, 08:21:09 pm »
I have built more static handles by far, but I love my bendies!  You did this one proud. Very nice!
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Offline Likemp

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Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
« Reply #17 on: May 20, 2021, 11:24:25 am »
Thanks so much for all the kind words! I'm ready to keep shooting this one and start building more. Picking up more BL this weekend!
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Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
« Reply #18 on: May 20, 2021, 03:20:19 pm »
Black locust is a great wood and the potential to chrysal is the best tiller-teacher going :)
You did a fine job with this bow. The unstrung profile is nice :)
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Offline Allyn T

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Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
« Reply #19 on: May 20, 2021, 04:56:21 pm »
Hey great job man, especially on a short bow, I feel like that is double tough
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
« Reply #20 on: May 20, 2021, 05:01:15 pm »
There are a lot of folks with more successful bows under their belts than fingers on their hands that cannot boast of a bow with tiller that good. Well done, sir, well done.
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Offline Dvshunter

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Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
« Reply #21 on: May 20, 2021, 06:31:51 pm »
Congratulations and welcome to the addiction.
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Offline Likemp

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Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
« Reply #22 on: May 20, 2021, 10:01:19 pm »
Wow, extremely kind words! Everything I read said take it slow so that's what I did, painfully so, and I guess the results speak for themselves.

I should also say there were several broken bows of different designs before this, with each one seeming to break at a later stage of construction, building upon the one before it. This one was actually from a "B" stave that I set aside as something to use in case I screwed all the others up. And, well, I screwed the others up, and it wasn't until I decided to stop fussing over layouts and just go with my gut that I pulled this stave out and slowly went to town. 
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Offline Aaron H

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Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
« Reply #23 on: May 20, 2021, 10:56:32 pm »
Very nice, congratulations
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Offline Swampman

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Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
« Reply #24 on: May 23, 2021, 10:38:16 am »
That is a great looking bow with fine tiller!  Congratulations on a successful bow.  I am sure you will enjoy shooting that bow.  It looks like a good hunter too.
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