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Title: Rick Nixon's Bow
Post by: OldBow on August 12, 2009, 11:39:28 pm

This was passed on to me by PA's editor:
This is the 9th bamboo-backed bow I have made in three years, and for the first time the entire process went smoothly and felt natural.
I did not have a thick enough piece of osage to make the 3-lamination bow I was planning to make without fear of it coming out too light, so I glued in a tapered piece of bloodwood under the bamboo and my first 4-lamination bow was in the jig.
This bow is made of bamboo, bloodwood, hard rock maple and has an osage belly. The riser is made of the same wood combination and is finished with a piece of wenge. I was worried that this bow would be too light for me due to the narrow limb design (1 1/8" at the widest point). However, I think the four lams made up for that. After a couple hundred shots, this bow is holding steady at 50 lbs and 27", and shoots my heavy tapered cedar arrows very well with no noticeable hand shock.
Thanks to Primitive Archer magazine and a good friend and bowyer for sparking my interest in all wood bows. I now enjoy tagging deer with my homemade bows and arrows.

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Title: Re: Rick Nixon's Bow
Post by: Cromm on August 13, 2009, 05:30:50 am

Very nice work.

Title: Re: Rick Nixon's Bow
Post by: mullet on August 13, 2009, 09:10:24 am

 Very nice bow. I really like the contrast in the Riser.

Title: Re: Rick Nixon's Bow
Post by: shamus on August 13, 2009, 09:12:13 am

A very nice job!

Title: Re: Rick Nixon's Bow
Post by: Justin Snyder on August 13, 2009, 09:52:35 am

That is definitely a beautifully striking bow. I really like the full draw. You can tell that he has really got it to full draw.  Justin

Title: Re: Rick Nixon's Bow
Post by: DanaM on August 13, 2009, 10:01:49 am

Sweet bow definately a keeper :)

Title: Re: Rick Nixon's Bow
Post by: Ryano on August 13, 2009, 03:33:16 pm

That's a nice looking bow.  8)

Title: Re: Rick Nixon's Bow
Post by: mox1968 on August 13, 2009, 04:10:10 pm

great looking bow,love the riser area!!

Title: Re: Rick Nixon's Bow
Post by: Jesse on August 13, 2009, 07:33:51 pm

Very cool. 8) looks like you got it pulled back to 30"  ;D congrats on making a really great 4 lam bow. Not that easy to do without something going wrong.

Title: Re: Rick Nixon's Bow
Post by: woodstick on August 13, 2009, 09:39:53 pm

a+++ dern nice work.

Title: Re: Rick Nixon's Bow
Post by: Blacktail on August 13, 2009, 10:20:17 pm

thats a great looking stick.john

Title: Re: Rick Nixon's Bow
Post by: Pat B on August 14, 2009, 12:39:57 am

Nice work, Rick. Pull up a log and join us.

Title: Re: Rick Nixon's Bow
Post by: GregB on August 14, 2009, 08:22:42 am

Sweet looking bow...looks like a winner to me! ;)