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Title: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: dbb on January 09, 2014, 03:45:20 pm
My latest bow, hickoryboard (only way to get it in sweden)
68" ntn  52# @ 29"  light r/d backed with redtail boa and nockoverlays in acacia with cut in shelf.
1,75" at the widest straight taper to 3/8 at the nock

(http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr17/dbb1963/Bows/DSC_0041_zps33b3fb9b.jpg) (http://s465.photobucket.com/user/dbb1963/media/Bows/DSC_0041_zps33b3fb9b.jpg.html)
(http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr17/dbb1963/Bows/DSC_0044_zps012252a9.jpg) (http://s465.photobucket.com/user/dbb1963/media/Bows/DSC_0044_zps012252a9.jpg.html)
(http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr17/dbb1963/Bows/DSC_0045_zpscffc379b.jpg) (http://s465.photobucket.com/user/dbb1963/media/Bows/DSC_0045_zpscffc379b.jpg.html)
(http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr17/dbb1963/Bows/DSC_0047_zps1b1101a5.jpg) (http://s465.photobucket.com/user/dbb1963/media/Bows/DSC_0047_zps1b1101a5.jpg.html)
(http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr17/dbb1963/Bows/DSC_0052_zps05cf5757.jpg) (http://s465.photobucket.com/user/dbb1963/media/Bows/DSC_0052_zps05cf5757.jpg.html)
Thanks for looking,constructive critizism is welcome  ;)  /Mikael
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on January 09, 2014, 04:06:44 pm
Nice bow!
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: BOWMAN53 on January 09, 2014, 04:13:21 pm
nice, i got a hickory bow with boa skins on it too.  can we get a good look at the skins?
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: Pat B on January 09, 2014, 04:17:08 pm
No criticism here. Nicely one.
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: burchett.donald on January 09, 2014, 05:26:42 pm
exceptional tiller...I'm a hickory fanatic 8)
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: IdahoMatt on January 09, 2014, 05:47:47 pm
Looks great.  Nice job on the tiller
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: half eye on January 09, 2014, 05:51:38 pm
very nice bow right there.
rich
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: SLIMBOB on January 09, 2014, 07:22:13 pm
Nicely done!
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: Peacebow_Coos on January 09, 2014, 07:40:36 pm
Well that's a nice bow….uh
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: mikekeswick on January 10, 2014, 04:46:12 am
Nice bow!
Very good tiller. :)
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: Pappy on January 10, 2014, 06:13:10 am
Looks very good from here. ;) :)
 Pappy
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: rps3 on January 10, 2014, 07:35:36 am
Looks just right. Are you going to do anything special to try and keep the hickory as dry as possible.
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: Gsulfridge on January 10, 2014, 07:45:21 am
I have a red tail boa skin in the freezer waiting for a ride on a bow.  Hmm .  .  .
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: Steve Milbocker on January 10, 2014, 07:51:18 am
Very nice bow
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: Badly Bent on January 10, 2014, 07:55:52 am
Thats some fine work dbb, real nice bow there.
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: Will H on January 10, 2014, 08:27:36 am
Nice!  :o
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: dbb on January 10, 2014, 12:57:06 pm
Thanks guys  :) and thanks .
It is getting easier to see what needs to be done,guess im learning  :o
Looks just right. Are you going to do anything special to try and keep the hickory as dry as possible.
Only thing done is heattreating the #¤%& out of it  and sealing it with tungoil. And dry storingplace of course.


nice, i got a hickory bow with boa skins on it too.  can we get a good look at the skins?
Here are a pic or two more.
(http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr17/dbb1963/Bows/DSC_0059_zps7193279d.jpg) (http://s465.photobucket.com/user/dbb1963/media/Bows/DSC_0059_zps7193279d.jpg.html)
(http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr17/dbb1963/Bows/DSC_0056_zpsa10e6203.jpg) (http://s465.photobucket.com/user/dbb1963/media/Bows/DSC_0056_zpsa10e6203.jpg.html)
(http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr17/dbb1963/Bows/DSC_0057_zpsa9472d21.jpg) (http://s465.photobucket.com/user/dbb1963/media/Bows/DSC_0057_zpsa9472d21.jpg.html)

The skin is split lenghtwise,this is from the bellyscales up to the "ladderpattern" on the back.
Hoping to get two more bows out of this skin.
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: Stringman on January 10, 2014, 01:58:02 pm
Thats a nice piece a work there! I hope you don't have any trouble with the handle wanting to pop off. Otherwise beautiful tiller!!
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: BOWMAN53 on January 10, 2014, 02:33:15 pm
pretty skins.
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: WillS on January 10, 2014, 03:00:38 pm
That's stunning!  I always forget that you guys in the States call Common Boas or Boa Constrictor Imperator "redtails" whereas in the UK a "redtail" has to be a Suriname/Guyanan red-tailed boa, or Boa Constrictor Constrictor 

I've never seen anybody back a bow with a BCC Red Tail yet but it would look amazing.  Maybe when one of my breeder females dies I'll use that.

Sorry, snake geek alert.  Nice bow!
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: dbb on January 10, 2014, 06:52:30 pm
That's stunning!  I always forget that you guys in the States call Common Boas or Boa Constrictor Imperator "redtails" whereas in the UK a "redtail" has to be a Suriname/Guyanan red-tailed boa, or Boa Constrictor Constrictor 

I've never seen anybody back a bow with a BCC Red Tail yet but it would look amazing.  Maybe when one of my breeder females dies I'll use that.

Sorry, snake geek alert.  Nice bow!
Im an old herpetologist myself (snake geek in finer words  ;D )I just call it what all other here name it,if i spout latin and subspecies almost no one would understand me.
But i agree that pure redtail is a B.c.c ,that said in sweden (where im from) many B.c are hybrids due to bad breeding sadly.
Title: Re: Hickory with boaskin
Post by: WillS on January 10, 2014, 07:11:13 pm
(Apologies for off topic chat!)

It's not much different here in the UK.  Lots of people are breeding BCC with BCI because just having "BCC" in the name is enough to sell for a lot more, but they still look like muddy BCI.

Anyway.  Great bow!