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Offline Kegan

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Another red oak board bow
« on: August 22, 2009, 01:56:00 pm »
I finished this one up today, another to help make some summer scratch (the last one helped me afford the supplies to do my senior project thankfully).

It's 66" long, 2" at the widest, 45# at 28". A little wide for the weight, but I had done this bow a few months ago on a whim to see how fast I could make a board bow. So it got a good bit of abuse through that little experiment. Slightly overbuilt, but the wood wasn;t the best. Really smooth and comfortable, it's not speed demon but in truth I only had 550 gr arrows. Walnut stain, with metallic silver Sharpie drawings on the back that faded in after the spar urethane to really look neat. Leather shelf.

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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: Another red oak board bow
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2009, 03:54:38 pm »
Looks great! Jawge
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Offline Dano

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Re: Another red oak board bow
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2009, 04:04:36 pm »
Looks pretty dang good for being abused. ;D I like the art work.
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Offline Little John

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Re: Another red oak board bow
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2009, 01:04:45 pm »
Looking good, didn't know you messed with any thing under about 70#       Kenneth
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Another red oak board bow
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2009, 01:57:19 pm »
Cool bow Kegan. I've always been impressed with your bows and now your quality is catching up with your ability!  8)
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Offline Kegan

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Re: Another red oak board bow
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2009, 02:16:19 pm »
Thanks everyone :)

Dano- Vines are pretty much the only thing I can draw that I don't get tired of looking at after a while. But I didn't realize the silver Sharpie would fade under the finsh, it came out alot nicer than I thought it would.

Little John- I've enjoyed making lighter bows actually... but I still don't want to shoot them when they're done ;D

Pat- Thank you! Looking at all the bows aroeund PA finally wore off on me :D
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Re: Another red oak board bow
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2009, 05:43:12 pm »
I like oak! Good looking bow out of wood we should use more often.
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Offline OldBow

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Re: Another red oak board bow
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2009, 01:16:47 pm »
Bookmarked for Aug BOM!
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Offline youngbowyer33

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Re: Another red oak board bow
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2009, 09:54:17 pm »
kegan, right now i am making a red oak board bow, and i am going for a low draw weight of 25# @ 25", got any tips for making one or for making a light weight one?im getting frustrated as my tillering is going absolutely nowhere so tillering tips would help me alot
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Re: Another red oak board bow
« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2009, 09:14:55 am »
Nice job,great looking bow. :)
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Offline Josh

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Re: Another red oak board bow
« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2009, 10:39:42 am »
cool bow keegan!!!  Red oak is so much fun to work with isn't it?   I have made more bows from it than any other wood so far.  Nice job!!!    :) -josh
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Offline John K

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Re: Another red oak board bow
« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2009, 11:17:42 am »
Real nice Kegan, tiller looks great !
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Offline Kegan

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Re: Another red oak board bow
« Reply #12 on: August 31, 2009, 11:31:14 am »
Thanks guys ;D!

youngbowyer33- get a good striaght taper in the limbs and go slowly from there. For these, I make them 5/8" thick outside the fades, tapering to 3/8" thick at the tips. You could start there, only with a bow about 1 1/2" wides, and take it down as you tiller. Do you have a tillering stick/tree?

Josh- I love oak too!  I have a few more red oak boards in the works, one of which is gtting a trapped boo backing. My current hunting bow is made from white oak too :)
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Offline youngbowyer33

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Re: Another red oak board bow
« Reply #13 on: August 31, 2009, 11:43:58 am »
ya i have a tillering stick
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Offline Kegan

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Re: Another red oak board bow
« Reply #14 on: August 31, 2009, 01:14:19 pm »
Excellent! Then get a good taper and start slowly tillering with the long string. Mark obvious stiff spots, and get it to brace height. String it up, and continue to about half draw. At this point, the tiller and taper should be pretty solid, so I just leave them sit braced overnight (4-6 hours). Then unbrace it the next day and that afternoon tiller it to full draw and shoot :).

When tillering, it really helps if I do a radiused belly too, not just flat.
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