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Title: Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
Post by: OldBow on July 20, 2008, 02:02:49 am

60" NtN, 52#@ 25.5"
5/8" @ tips overlaid with 1/4 sawed Coast Fir
1 1/4" at flares
Modified flat belly
Chokecherry harvested via canoe on Clark Fork River in 2006 and backed with resawed red oak
Constructed from billets
Handle is gator from Eddie Parker aka mullet (this is the one that bit you, I think >:D)
Handle is built up with hickory, ash, oak and other scraps
A little too much reflex in right limb
Stained with a variety of stains and finished with spar varnish
Very fast at 26.5"

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Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry
Post by: DanaM on July 20, 2008, 06:48:55 am

Interesting combo of woods Don, looks to be a nice bow and gotta love that grip  :)

Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry
Post by: hammertime on July 20, 2008, 06:31:57 pm

Old Bow I really like the grip,interesting  wood combo. is chokecherry nice to work with?Nice lookin bow!.-Hammertime

Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry
Post by: snedeker on July 20, 2008, 06:34:23 pm

Really nice profile Don.  Good backing choice I'd say.

Dave

Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry
Post by: Keenan on July 21, 2008, 01:42:50 am

 Very nice bow Don, profile looks great and love the tips. I would not have thought about fir as tip overlays. I may have to try that some time. Keenan

Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry
Post by: DBernier on July 21, 2008, 05:45:19 am

Don, what a beautiful looking bow. Congrats!!!

Dick

Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry
Post by: Pappy on July 21, 2008, 06:36:28 am

Another beauty Don.Nice job on that one. :) You draw about like me. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry
Post by: Ryano on July 21, 2008, 10:23:03 am

Nice looking bow Don.
If you get the mid limbs working a little more it would probally help with that stacking feeling your getting and allow you to get her back to full draw. jmo

Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry
Post by: OldBow on July 21, 2008, 08:20:30 pm

My brother-in-law cranked this bow way back so I did a new full draw.

Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
Post by: ricktrojanowski on July 21, 2008, 09:08:31 pm

Nice looking bow. I wondered if choke cherry would work for a bow.  Do you know if it has to be backed or can choke cherry last unbacked?

Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
Post by: OldBow on July 21, 2008, 11:55:23 pm

Most of the members of the rose family, ie., chokecherry, hawthorn, service berry can be "stand alone" bow wood. None of it is as good as osage, hickory, ash, etc.
So, even though I have lots of bows from this group, I don't spend all that time on them without backing them. 

Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
Post by: Hillbilly on July 22, 2008, 07:47:28 am

Fine looking bow, Don. I always enjoy seeing your work with non-mainstream materials, and you always seem to end up with a great looking finished product.

Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
Post by: RG on July 22, 2008, 08:18:12 am

 :)  Good looking one Don nice job

Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
Post by: Justin Snyder on July 22, 2008, 10:37:19 am

Looking good Don.  Does it have any hand shock? Justin

Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
Post by: james parker on July 22, 2008, 11:43:52 am

hey  oldbow your bow is looking great, is this your first attempt at  a glue -up?

Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
Post by: Woodland Roamer on July 22, 2008, 01:34:37 pm

Really nice looking bow Don.

Alan

Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
Post by: Sidewinder on July 22, 2008, 02:44:01 pm

Beautiful bow Don, I never thought about using something like choke cherry. Is that kind of a deflex reflex design unstrung? lloks really cool.  Danny

Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
Post by: david w. on July 22, 2008, 03:37:25 pm

Really nice bow and thats a really cool combo :)

Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
Post by: knightd on July 22, 2008, 10:26:16 pm

I like the look's of this bow..very nice..

 David

Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
Post by: The Burnt Hill Archer on July 24, 2008, 09:15:11 pm

very nice, love the coloring! great profile too.

Phil

Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
Post by: Roger on July 25, 2008, 01:03:25 am

Don...that looks mighty fine! I like that pic of ya scraping wood by the fire. Nice tiller!

R.

Title: Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
Post by: mullet on July 30, 2008, 10:59:49 pm

  Wow, I just got home today, and going over everything I've missed. The internet has been intermittant where I was at.

     Don, I forgot all about that Old Gator. You've had that hide for a long time. I never saw choke cherry big enough to make a bow, but that sure is a good looking one. I'll never forget the look on the wife's face when I talked her into eating a small handfull of them.