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Title: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
Post by: swamp yeti on January 12, 2012, 02:54:02 pm

Had been working on this one for a little bit.Back in september I was helping some buddies house tobbacco and found two black locust sticks for stringing tobbacco that might work for bows.The one I finished is a bend through the handle D style catawba bow,The bow is 59 inches tip to tip.inch and a quarter wide at the handle area and narrows down to 7 eights of an inch at the dovetail nocks.The bow is 50#@ 27 inches.

Title: Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
Post by: Qwill on January 12, 2012, 03:06:40 pm

I love this style bow for Black Locust. I've made two, and both shoot great, and are faster than I thought they would be. Nice work scrounging the staves. Did you heat the belly at all? I've had good luck with that on Black Locust.

Title: Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
Post by: swamp yeti on January 12, 2012, 03:13:35 pm

They were already heat treated from curing the tobbacco in the barn.

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Post by: Elktracker on January 12, 2012, 03:19:49 pm

Nice looking bow 8) Thats cool wonder if the tobbacco heat treat has any benafits :D

Josh

Title: Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
Post by: swamp yeti on January 12, 2012, 03:29:41 pm

I don"t know either Elktracker but I guess I will find out later on down the road.

Title: Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
Post by: Elktracker on January 12, 2012, 03:33:06 pm

 ;D

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Post by: jonathan creason on January 12, 2012, 04:00:21 pm

That's just too cool for words.

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Post by: okie64 on January 12, 2012, 04:38:46 pm

Nice lookin bow. Love that simple style.

Title: Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
Post by: Dictionary on January 12, 2012, 04:39:10 pm

Quote from: okie64 on January 12, 2012, 04:38:46 pm

Nice lookin bow. Love that simple style.

agreed

Title: Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
Post by: swamp yeti on January 12, 2012, 04:44:31 pm

Yea it is Jonathan,I didn"t think about the heat treating from the curing.Going to hang up some more wood in the barn next year.

Title: Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
Post by: swamp yeti on January 12, 2012, 08:58:25 pm

Thanks for the compliments everybody.

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Post by: soy on January 12, 2012, 11:20:56 pm

Love a bow with a background story, looks real nice ;)

Title: Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
Post by: Pat B on January 13, 2012, 01:23:20 am

Nice Yeti. Full draw looks very good. I love these Eastern Woodland style bows. They aren't as simple as they look.
  I have a walking stick a friend made for me from a tobacco stick. Not locust but it has the history in it like this bow. 

Title: Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
Post by: gmc on January 13, 2012, 05:45:09 am

Very nice, Yeti.

Guy at work just the other day was talking about his grandfather making Hickory bows out of tobacco stakes. I had one of those "I never thought of that" moments.

Good to see something similar posted.

Title: Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
Post by: Pappy on January 13, 2012, 07:16:18 am

Very nice,I have a whole stack of sticks in my barn[ Dark fired] We raised it for years,if fact that's what paid for the farm. Best cash crop in TN. except Pot. ;) ;D ;D ;D Back to the bow,the tiller is sweet as usuall from you,way to use what you find. Very cool. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
Post by: swamp yeti on January 13, 2012, 10:28:07 am

Thanks for the compliments everybody.There is a lot of history around these old farms and plantations,aint no telling the differt kinds of wood that has been seasoned over the years.Pappy the third cash crop was or is shine,lot of still goes on today.

Title: Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
Post by: ErictheViking on January 13, 2012, 01:30:24 pm

Very nice Swamp, perty tiller on a perty bow. :)

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Post by: swamp yeti on January 13, 2012, 05:14:07 pm

Thanks Eric.

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Post by: Keenan on January 13, 2012, 11:42:57 pm

Very nice bow Swap. You've been kicking out some nice ones.

Title: Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
Post by: swamp yeti on January 14, 2012, 01:25:30 am

Thanks Keenan.