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Offline k-hat

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Christmas Bow/Arrow set for my baby
« on: December 25, 2012, 06:17:17 pm »
Merry Christmas y'all!!!  While the Texas blizzard blows outside, i figured it'd be as good a time as any to post the bow i made for my oldest daughter (my 13 year old baby;).  She decided she wanted a bow for Christmas (finally!), and she showed me a pic of a pretty drastic recurve.  I told her i'd get as close as i could. 

My first osage bow (to finish).  First full recurve bow (osage bent NICELY with dry heat!).  Nothing super special as bows go, but special to somebody :D

Thanks to those who helped me tweak the tiller.  Still ain't perfect but perfect enough for a youth bow.

Specs:
20#@24" (probly drawable out to 28"or so which would put'r round 30#, so she's got some growing room)
54" ntn (i think!)
Mild pyramid taper with slight thickness taper.
Pin nocks (first time to cut those string grooves along the belly, easier than i thought they'd be)
Osage (which just might BE king!! ;))

The handle was a little shy on wood after being worked down past the digouts and splits, so i built it up with leather and an exotic skin over it (kinda blocky, not super happy with it, but she likes it and it fits her hand).

Enjoy, critiques are welcome!

Oh!!  AND this my first set of matching arrows from scratch (well, 5/16 poplar dowels anywho).





The cant makes the tiller look off.  I will say the brace pic looks a touch backards (aka negative tiller) cuz the upper limb has a touch of reflex and the lower a touch of deflex.  After all the heating and rastlin i had to do to get it tillerable, i decided to leave that alone.




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Offline gstoneberg

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Re: Christmas Bow/Arrow set for my baby
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2012, 06:24:44 pm »
Looks about perfect to me.  Nice work!  Merry Christmas.

George
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Offline Weylin

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Re: Christmas Bow/Arrow set for my baby
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2012, 06:25:34 pm »
Looks great! You have one lucky daughter.

Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Christmas Bow/Arrow set for my baby
« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2012, 06:33:06 pm »
WOW...Too bad you had to give away your best one so far.....that had to sting a little I bet?
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Re: Christmas Bow/Arrow set for my baby
« Reply #4 on: December 25, 2012, 06:36:05 pm »
It sounds like you both had a Merry Christmas now ;D congratulations to both of you ;)
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Offline half eye

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Re: Christmas Bow/Arrow set for my baby
« Reply #5 on: December 25, 2012, 06:52:13 pm »
Very nice there pops....looks like she is gonna shoot good too.
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Offline k-hat

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Re: Christmas Bow/Arrow set for my baby
« Reply #6 on: December 25, 2012, 06:56:57 pm »
Thanks George, hope you're enjoying the snow!

Thanks Weylin!

WOW...Too bad you had to give away your best one so far.....that had to sting a little I bet?

Lol thanks Pearl.  I've got more sage in the garage all cured up and waitn on me to rastle it into submission  (not to mention that one i started with George forever ago!)::)  We'll call this one good practice, and it don't sting one bit (long as she shoots till the string falls to pieces ;))

Yes we did Soy, it's been a nice one.  My wife got me bowyers bibles 2 and 4 (YES!!).  Interestingly the cover of TBB II has a sage bow that looks like the big brother of this one, upper limb knot and all!  Thanks again :)

Appreciate it half-eye.  That's what i told her!

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Re: Christmas Bow/Arrow set for my baby
« Reply #7 on: December 25, 2012, 07:02:52 pm »
Nice looks like a shooter

Offline k-hat

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Re: Christmas Bow/Arrow set for my baby
« Reply #8 on: December 25, 2012, 10:49:59 pm »
thanks Rob, she is indeed pretty zippy! 

Forgot to tell y'all this was from a gnarly, rotten standing dead osage tree a student cut down for me.  Nearly every square inch of the surface had rot or a borer hole, and they went deep, and the outer 1" of wood was paper thin rings.  This was about all that was left by the time I worked down to some decent rings. 

Yup, osage is good stuff!

Offline Badly Bent

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Re: Christmas Bow/Arrow set for my baby
« Reply #9 on: December 25, 2012, 11:34:57 pm »
Turned out real nice and looks like it fits her perfect, thats a special gift coming from from dads hands. Merry Christmas
Greg
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Offline steve b.

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Re: Christmas Bow/Arrow set for my baby
« Reply #10 on: December 25, 2012, 11:50:29 pm »
Really nice.  Good job on all of it.

Offline coaster500

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Re: Christmas Bow/Arrow set for my baby
« Reply #11 on: December 26, 2012, 04:34:36 am »
Very nice Hatman!!!

Your baby looks right at home with that shooter :)
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Re: Christmas Bow/Arrow set for my baby
« Reply #12 on: December 26, 2012, 09:02:58 am »
Appreciate the kind words Greg, Steve, Coaster.  I hope we have some time in the coming week to get her feeling at home with it :)

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Re: Christmas Bow/Arrow set for my baby
« Reply #13 on: December 26, 2012, 01:00:28 pm »
Nice bow, Hope the young one has yrs of enjoyment from it. Good job Dad thats what it is all about
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Offline Buckeye Guy

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Re: Christmas Bow/Arrow set for my baby
« Reply #14 on: December 26, 2012, 05:01:30 pm »
Just simply Beautiful !!
Good job Dad !!
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