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Offline hilltophickory

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MY 1st bow
« on: June 07, 2013, 10:36:21 pm »
I went in reverse some reason I shoot my 2nd bow a lot more so that may be why I posted it first , but my 1st piece of wood I took a horseshoe rasp is this lil fella it is 53 inchs Osage and pulls 54 pounds at 25 inchs I did put this on a bowshop scale when I built it I wasn't aware that 53 inch bow was a harder bow too build than a longer one , the post I got wasn't very long so this is what it made.
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: MY 1st bow
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2013, 11:24:51 pm »
That is an impressive first bow!  Can't wait to see what you make next. 
"The bow is the old first lyre,
the mono chord, the initial rune of fine art
The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and..." Maurice Thompso

Offline Newindian

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Re: MY 1st bow
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2013, 11:50:12 pm »
Nice to see some people can make weight on their first, you have a hinge in you upper limb though ( not half as bad as the hinge in my first)
I like free stuff.

Offline Joec123able

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Re: MY 1st bow
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2013, 12:00:29 am »
Good thing it's Osage. there's a hinge in upper limb but I don't expect much from a first bow mine was Ohh so terrible haha
I like osage

Offline hilltophickory

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Re: MY 1st bow
« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2013, 08:32:24 am »
Good thing it is osage, I read Dean torges book, Comstocks , andWaldorrfs book  at that time it was way before the Internet for me, Im still a rookie I learn something new on each one, Thanks for looking.         
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: MY 1st bow
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2013, 09:50:36 am »
Excellent from such a short stave. I'm not so sure that 'hinge' is as bad as it looks...
some of it may be camera angle.
Nice work
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