DogWood bow

[turtle]

       Thanks for all the kind remarks.
Justin.......limbs are 27 1/2" from fades to nocks
OldBow.....i dont know what species of dogwood it is...white flowers/red berries/redish inner bark,but it gets a lot bigger than that peice.
Badger & Pappy....this stave had dried in a shed for year and a half..i checked it with my moisture meeter it was below 7% thats as low as my meeter reads. I think slower than expected cast is due to highly arched back causing high amount of non working mass. But the only bows ive made before this were always osage so it could just be me.

[Hillbilly]

Don, flowering dogwood, Cornus florida, is a medium-sized tree that can reach over 40' in height and can have a trunk up to 18" or more in diameter. It has really hard, dense wood. It's also the state flower of NC.

[OldBow]

Nice dogwood pictures.  My wife's from Alabama. She liked them, too.

[duffontap]

Nice looking bow.  At first glance I thought you'ld gotten your hands on some crazy snake skins.  How much set did it take? 

          J. D. Duff

[Rich Saffold]

Turtle, Its a great looking bow   Osage does handle humidity better I'm quite sure, and perhaps your bow picked up moisture as opposed to losing it during the building process depending on the local humidity..

Good tree pics Hillbilly..Been looking for one here, lots of flowering trees where I live..

Rich

[Agbowyer]

That's a fine looking bow. I too really like that artwork. We have dogwood, but I haven't tried it yet. You've inspired me to look for some. Hillbilly, I had to show my wife the pics. She was the Dogwood Duchess for her town in rural East Texas.

[Hillbilly]

Yeah, the dogwoods really make the woods come alive here in mid-April. Dogwood also makes good flintknapping billets for working stuff like quartzite and rhyolite, and is great for making wooden wedges (gluts) for splitting logs. Disclaimer: I didn't take those pics myself, just snagged them off the web.

[mamba]

Nice work Steve.-cool art work.

[turtle]

  J.D.  ..... This stave started out with  1 1/2" reflex (natural) now has just under 1 1/2" deflex when first unstrung.
Hillbilly ...... I was wondering if this local stuff was flowering dogwwod or not....now i know. Thanks

[AndrewS]

A fine bow.
I like bows from "little trees" . They have a lot of character.

[Marc St Louis]

Nice looking bow

[GregB]

I like it! Very nice job...

[ber643]

I love the bow, turtle. I really like everything about our Southern Dogwoods here in NC (except the leaves and berries in my Koi ponds, and how easily the hurricanes toppel them into the house or porch  ). We plant them, transfer 'em, give 'em to neighbors, etc. I'm going to have to take some bad "leaners" out soon, and a friend and I hope to get a bow or two out of them. This thread is very interesting to me. I have pulled the FD pic, and one of the decoration detail, for my Traditional Bows Drawn pages (Page10) and will be posting them directly. If you decide you don't want them there I will pull them though. Thanks for the thread in any case.

http://residents.bowhunting.net/bsdunn/index.htm

[PepeLep]

That's a nice looking bow. It looks great at full draw.

I might have to walk the woods and see if I can find a good dogwood to scrape.

[jignfrog]

Very nice bow. looks great.

jignfrog