Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Grunt on February 09, 2011, 08:04:27 pm
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Here is a maple d bow backed with linen canvas. It started it's life at 72" tip to tip under weight at 42#. I piked it down to 68" and picked up the weight to 50#. The tiller shifted and the bottom limb became softer than the top. I then cut an inch off the bottom limb to get the tiller back. It started following the string badly to the tune of 3" and it shot kind of sluggishly. I had nothing to loose so I used dry heat and flipped the tips and did a moderate heat treatment to them, the linen canvas stayed put. Got the weight up to #58 and it shoots hard and flat after about seventy arrows.I sure hope this bow is done finally. Four times is the charm.
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I like it and that is a cool paint job. It looks like a good shooter.
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Very nicely done! Jawge
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Sweet lookin bow. I like the profile.
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Nice!! I dig that paint job. One of the first bows I made was a maple D bow, still have it and it too took lots of set... about 3"
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Way to teach that some-bitch a lesson! I love maple :) I like your paint job too.
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Nice save.. Looks good.
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Man that looks great. Didn't know linen canvas (I'm an idiot) could be painted like that.
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cool looking bow. brace pics are my favorite and that looks sweet. really like the paint job. good work, congrats on the save.
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Cool bow Grunt; love your workshop, too!
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That away to stay at it, Looks like it turned out nice,paint job is cool. :)
Pappy
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Looks like you really whipped a charm on that one. I like the bow and the paint job.
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I too like the profile and paint. Wish I could paint. I been trying it some but have absolutely no painting ability. I can draw pretty good with a pencil but that don't do me no good on a bow unless I could find something with a small enough tip and the right ink. Then I might be able to spruce up some bows. John
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Well done, some bits of wood just don't know whats good for 'em. You'd think they'd like to be a bow much better than some ol' stick... maybe some wood is just plain lazy ;D.
Del
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good lookin bow and i to like the decoration
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I too like the profile and paint. Wish I could paint. I been trying it some but have absolutely no painting ability. I can draw pretty good with a pencil but that don't do me no good on a bow unless I could find something with a small enough tip and the right ink. Then I might be able to spruce up some bows. John
I laid the pattern out with a tape measure and chalk. Did the edges and outlines with a black Sharpie and then used artist acrylics to add color. Having a linen canvas back helped a bunch. To get the pattern I just did some sketches on lined paper. Red and Green are opposite each other on the color wheel and are called contrasting colors. When red and green are used together they really set each other off.