Sneak peek... knotty buckthorn

[vinemaplebows]

Very nice! What is that buckthorns native range? About what is it's SG?

[Badly Bent]

Thanks for the nice comments guys. Won't see any more pics of this until I'm sure its a bow, need a couple more days of re-hydration
and then I'll see if I can get her worked out to 3 more inches of draw length while keeping it in one piece.
@ Vinemaplebow - It is European buckthorn, not native here, considered an invasive species and grows everywhere here in northern illinois. Not sure how it is rated on the specific gravity scale.

[Carson (CMB)]

That is a beautiful wicked looking bow.  I hope you get it to that full draw.  Way to pick right up with another knotty buckthorn after that last heartbreaker.   I spent a summer doing bat surveys in Northern Illinois (Lake County) and I hated buckthorn with a passion, it grows thick in the understory and makes it a pain to move through the woodlots it has infested.  Now, I am just wishing I had known to cut some for bow wood.   

[Del the cat]

Hope it holds out to full draw, that's one good lookin' bow.
Del

[JW_Halverson]

First off, I am amused to see a copy of American Bungalow on your Arts and Crafts Movement style side table AND in what is obviously an A-n-C style home.  Frank Lloyd Wright would have approved!  Love the house, very warm and inviting.

Secondly, the bow.  Oh wow, oh baby, oy vay!  That nasty invasive species makes a nasty-good looking bow!  Good luck finishing it out!

[Del the cat]

First off, I am amused to see a copy of American Bungalow on your Arts and Crafts Movement style side table AND in what is obviously an A-n-C style home.  Frank Lloyd Wright would have approved!  Love the house, very warm and inviting.

Secondly, the bow.  Oh wow, oh baby, oy vay!  That nasty invasive species makes a nasty-good looking bow!  Good luck finishing it out!

I'm looking to make a Charles Rennie Mackintosh bow sometime
Del 

[Onebowonder]

First off, I am amused to see a copy of American Bungalow on your Arts and Crafts Movement style side table AND in what is obviously an A-n-C style home.  Frank Lloyd Wright would have approved!  Love the house, very warm and inviting.

Secondly, the bow.  Oh wow, oh baby, oy vay!  That nasty invasive species makes a nasty-good looking bow!  Good luck finishing it out!

I'm looking to make a Charles Rennie Mackintosh bow sometime
Del 

So, ...would a CRM bow be painted with watercolors?  ...lack adornment and focus on clean and functional lines?  ...perhaps even be some meld of an ELB and Japanese Yumi Bow?

[Badly Bent]

Carson, if your ever up here on bat patrol again look me up and we'll thin some buckthorn thickets together.
JW, you know your architecture, 1910 arts & crafts bungalow, bought it 12 yr. ago and the house is my other passion.
Del, I want to see your Mackintosh bow or maybe a Limbert bow with cut-outs and inlays.
Greg

[missilemaster]

Nice looking stick there BB.  I cant say its a bow since I have yet to see a string on it!

[twilightandmist]

nicely done, sir! i gotta get me some more character staves, im running dangerously low im running low on everything!