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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Allask on August 23, 2016, 11:48:57 am

Title: Latest guava
Post by: Allask on August 23, 2016, 11:48:57 am

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i288/pfcapey/Mobile%20Uploads/20160816_082136_1.jpg) (http://s75.photobucket.com/user/pfcapey/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160816_082136_1.jpg.html) (http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i288/pfcapey/Mobile%20Uploads/20160816_082201.jpg) (http://s75.photobucket.com/user/pfcapey/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160816_082201.jpg.html)(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i288/pfcapey/Mobile%20Uploads/20160816_082220.jpg) (http://s75.photobucket.com/user/pfcapey/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160816_082220.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Latest guava
Post by: Allask on August 23, 2016, 11:55:03 am

64", 58#@28", koa tip overlays, koa arrow pass inlay, hemp handle wrap, rattler skin. Moved to big island hawaii so working the guava, good stuff. You all know Mannys bows, he's the master with this stuff. Have lots of staves drying. Thanks

Title: Re: Latest guava
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on August 23, 2016, 12:20:22 pm

Id like to see it drawn. The finish work looks very clean and nicely done. I can appreciate that.

Title: Re: Latest guava
Post by: loon on August 23, 2016, 02:12:22 pm

mm guayava

Nice work

Title: Re: Latest guava
Post by: Allask on August 23, 2016, 02:33:56 pm

Best I could do on drawn pic (http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i288/pfcapey/Mobile%20Uploads/20160823_083735.jpg) (http://s75.photobucket.com/user/pfcapey/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160823_083735.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Latest guava
Post by: bow101 on August 23, 2016, 02:57:40 pm

Those tips have a sharp bend, and in the full draw pic they are straight.   ???  Maybe its the angle of the pics.

Title: Re: Latest guava
Post by: mullet on August 23, 2016, 03:13:03 pm

I've got two holding up beans in the garden, one made by the Master and the other by Ryan O'Sullivan. Both let go with no warning after shooting them a bunch.

Title: Re: Latest guava
Post by: Allask on August 23, 2016, 04:22:27 pm

The bends in the tips are not recurve, they are lateral, snakes bends. Mullet where are you located? Dry climate? This wood should act like hickory and get stronger as it dries more. Hard to get it really dry here eastside= wet side.

Title: Re: Latest guava
Post by: Allask on August 23, 2016, 05:38:10 pm

Tension failures? Both break same?

Title: Re: Latest guava
Post by: nakedfeet on August 23, 2016, 05:43:53 pm

I like it a lot. Wouldn't mind seeing an unbraced side profile photo. (And braced too, if you want.)

Title: Re: Latest guava
Post by: mullet on August 23, 2016, 09:46:06 pm

Manny's came in a trade with 3 or 4 frets on the belly. Finally broke after about 35 shots. Ryan's was the pretiest, smooth shooting bow I'd shot in a while. He gifted me it at the Classic and I shot it all 4 days I was there.Got it home and shot it almost everyday for a couple of weeks and the top limb let go in a clean breal across the belly. Really hated to lose that one.

Title: Re: Latest guava
Post by: Pat B on August 23, 2016, 10:18:43 pm

I made a nice bow from a guava stave from Manny. It shot well. I think I had it marked 56#@26". Later I found out my scale was off by 10#. I gave the bow to Steve Parker(Hillbilly)and he had trouble shooting it. It was at least 65#@26". That guava bow is still together but it hasn't been shot much but who's gonna shoot it.  ;D
Another snaky guava stave Manny sent me turned into Swiss cheese.

Title: Re: Latest guava
Post by: Allask on August 24, 2016, 12:07:48 am

If I remember right Pat I read something about that stave with bugs right? It was a sister stave to one Manny finished or maybe both your staves came from same tree. Mullet, I fretted a kids bow right off after heavy heat treat when I first got here, just to see what the wood could handle. I have a bunch of kids so I usually make my first bow using new wood or new design and let them shoot it to pieces. It fretted and then splintered above frets, so after that they all get backed if they're getting skins. Haven't fretted any including unbacked, I've used a ton of black locust living in california and oregon, fretted my share for sure. Now I go nice and slow.

Title: Re: Latest guava
Post by: Peacebow_Coos on August 24, 2016, 01:36:13 am

That is quite a lateral kink, looks like it didn't effect the stability at all.  Nice F/d, and beautiful work all around.

Title: Re: Latest guava
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on August 24, 2016, 12:44:40 pm

Looks nice, hope she holds up and serves you well on the local swine.

Title: Re: Latest guava
Post by: mullet on August 24, 2016, 09:15:36 pm

Allask;
I live in Central Florida.  Both Guavas grow here in the wild. We are picking yellow ones right now.

Title: Re: Latest guava
Post by: Allask on September 23, 2016, 12:18:03 pm

Took this little guy other night with this bow. Story in hunting forum.  (http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i288/pfcapey/Mobile%20Uploads/20160919_194429.jpg) (http://s75.photobucket.com/user/pfcapey/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160919_194429.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Latest guava
Post by: Msturm on September 23, 2016, 01:02:18 pm

Great work! I love guava as bow wood. I have one in the works right now over here on Oahu.

Keep it up. Nice pig too.

Msturm

Title: Re: Latest guava
Post by: Allask on September 23, 2016, 01:07:27 pm

Thanks, thought I'd seen someone besides manny over there posting. Seen him lately?

Title: Re: Latest guava
Post by: Msturm on September 23, 2016, 08:24:01 pm

I have not seen him for a couple months, but I have spoken with him off and on since then.

Title: Re: Latest guava
Post by: osage outlaw on September 23, 2016, 09:11:17 pm

Nice looking bow and great job on the pig