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ozark caveman

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Dogwood Bow Pics!
« on: February 03, 2008, 02:29:16 am »
Here's my latest! 62" Dogwood 60# at 28" ;D

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Re: Dogwood Bow Pics!
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2008, 02:31:27 am »
I'm not completely finished yet.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Dogwood Bow Pics!
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2008, 02:37:01 am »
She looks good. Tell me about working dogwood(Cornus florida I presume). I have a nice straight 5" pole I cut a few months ago and split a month after I cut it.  Pat
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ozark caveman

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Re: Dogwood Bow Pics!
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2008, 02:46:50 am »
I love working Dogwood! It's one of my favorite woods. It's really tuff like hickory.
  Here is another dogwood I made thats 48" long.


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Offline DanaM

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Re: Dogwood Bow Pics!
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2008, 07:45:55 am »
Cool looking bow the dogleg in the bottom limb makes it tough to judge the tiller
but looks like it could bend a bit more between the fadeaand the dog leg. Still well done.
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Re: Dogwood Bow Pics!
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2008, 09:26:52 am »
Looks nice....are you planning on taking some of the Bend out with some Heat?? Or are you going to leave it for Character?? I am with Dana here....looks a Little stiff from Mid Limb to the Tip on that bottom limb........but I would rather have that than a Whippy Bow....so go slow....

here is one a Guy sent Me to finissh for Him.....do you think the Tiller is a little off....LMAO!!!

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Re: Dogwood Bow Pics!
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2008, 11:14:56 am »
Looks like you did a pretty good job trying to work with that kink- that limb should bend a little more probably, but it's hard to judge tiller when you've got a hellacious whoopiedoo like that to work around. The littl'un looks good. I've got a piece of dogwood that Pat gave me drying in the shed, I'm looking forward to attacking it.
Yankee, I think you could probably get that bow bending just a tiny bit more out of the fades-maybe a few scrapes between fade and midlimb?  ;D  ;D  :o  ;D
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Offline 1/2primitive

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Re: Dogwood Bow Pics!
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2008, 11:23:54 am »
Yep, good looking bow. I made an Osage bow like that, it had a straight top limb, but the bottom limb had a dog leg in about the same area.  :)
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Offline Badger

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Re: Dogwood Bow Pics!
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2008, 03:11:27 pm »
      I love working with dogwood, all the ones Ihave had were just loaded with character and knots. makes great bows. Steve
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Offline Asiertxu

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Re: Dogwood Bow Pics!
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2008, 07:24:31 pm »
Hey Ozark!!
So you like to work with Dogwood??
I also like it!!...REALLY like Dogwood "Cornus Sanguinea"... :) 8)...
What species of Dogwood are you talking about mate??
BTW: Really nice dogwood bows!!

Cheers...
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Offline venisonburger

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Re: Dogwood Bow Pics!
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2008, 07:45:05 pm »
Shows what I know, for some reason when I think of dogwood I think soft wood, you bow looks super, the dip in the limb is well incorporated in the design, seems like you continue an arc even with the offset.
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Re: Dogwood Bow Pics!
« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2008, 08:01:23 pm »
VB, our dogwood (C. florida) is an extremly hard, dense wood, and very impact-resistant.
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Offline broad_head

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Re: Dogwood Bow Pics!
« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2008, 11:05:25 am »
Great to find out that dogwood makes good bows, I have been wondering for some time if it would, and have been collecting sapling size stave's to season with a hope of making an English longbow. I not sure how to dry this particular timber, so I have some in my workshop, for a slow dry and some in the house, all with the bark on.
         I read in the bb1 that it is denser than osage?
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Offline Wulamoc

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Re: Dogwood Bow Pics!
« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2008, 11:14:20 am »
Good looking bow!  Dogwood, eh?  Hhmnmn...
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Re: Dogwood Bow Pics!
« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2008, 01:51:36 pm »
Got your neat dogwood stick bow  with the dogleg ;) all bookmarked for Feb Self Bow of the Month. Nice and primitive - we like these.
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