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Offline Woodland Roamer

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Locust D Bow
« on: March 12, 2009, 11:06:40 pm »
Hey guys, here is a short woodland D bow. Black Locust, 54 inches long, 1 1/8 wide at the handle to about midlimb and 5/8 at the tips. It pulls 47 @ 26 inches. Has some lard and deer fat rubbed in for the finish. It has about one inch of set, that happened mostly I when narrowed it from 1 1/4 down to 1 1/8. I'm going to try another one and leave it 1 1/4 wide.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Locust D Bow
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2009, 11:25:06 pm »
Nice Alan. You're getting pretty good with those locust D bows.  8)
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Offline Timo

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Re: Locust D Bow
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2009, 11:27:40 pm »
Nice looking lil bow. It don't get much simpler than that !
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: Locust D Bow
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2009, 12:08:06 am »
That is just awesome! Jawge
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Offline John K

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Re: Locust D Bow
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2009, 12:26:44 pm »
Cool bow ! Do you build up the handle or just leave it as is ?
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Offline Hillbilly

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Re: Locust D Bow
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2009, 12:35:21 pm »
Good looking bow, Alan, looks like it came right off the pages of the Encyclopedia of Native American Bows, Arrows, and Quivers. Perfect tiller, too- just the right amount of bend in the handle. How's it shoot?
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Re: Locust D Bow
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2009, 12:58:47 pm »
This is the Poster Child ;D of what this site is all about. Great Tiller and Primitive. Bookmarked, too :P
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Offline brownhillboy

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Re: Locust D Bow
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2009, 01:30:44 pm »
Very nice little bow...great job! :)
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Offline Woodland Roamer

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Re: Locust D Bow
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2009, 01:41:50 pm »
Thanks Pat, it took me a lot of tries to get one of these right. My first several looked something like
>bows instead of D bows!  :D

Thanks Timo.

Thanks George.

Thanks John, I'll just leave the handle like it is on this one.

Thanks Steve, that's what I was going for on this one. I'm going to put a groundhog hide string on the next one too. It's draws pretty smooth and shoots good for a short bow.

Thanks Oldbow.

Thanks Brownhillboy.

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Re: Locust D Bow
« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2009, 02:22:34 pm »
Nice bow, it's what I've been trying to build. Number one was hickory, but I got in a hurry and ruined it with a draw knife. Number two was out of oak, I thought I had it figured out but that one broke at full draw. I'm getting ready to start number three out of a black locust stave (man that stuff is hard to carve on!) Wondered how thick your bow ended up being? How far did you taper the nock ends?
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Offline JustAim

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Re: Locust D Bow
« Reply #10 on: March 13, 2009, 04:41:03 pm »
That looks really good! Great job.
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Offline Woodland Roamer

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Re: Locust D Bow
« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2009, 11:19:21 pm »
Thanks old foul dude, this bow is about 1/2" thick at the handle and 3/8" at the tips. It's 1 1/8" wide from the handle to midlimb then tapers to 5/8" at the tips.

Thanks Justaim.

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Offline DanaM

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Re: Locust D Bow
« Reply #12 on: March 14, 2009, 08:00:34 am »
Looks really nice alan, I like them little D bows :)
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Offline Scowler

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Re: Locust D Bow
« Reply #13 on: March 14, 2009, 11:46:01 am »
Very cool bow!  Really like the bend-in-the-handle type bows.
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Offline Okie

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Re: Locust D Bow
« Reply #14 on: March 14, 2009, 02:23:58 pm »
Nice bow Alan. I've got one just like it in the works. Only difference is mine is 60" long. Do you like the feel without the handle built up? I can't decide on mine yet. I'll have to shoot it I guess before I'll know. Great job.
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