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Offline Dances with squirrels

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Re: new deflexed osage bow
« Reply #15 on: January 05, 2016, 10:18:18 am »
Very nice.
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Offline Stick Bender

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Re: new deflexed osage bow
« Reply #16 on: January 05, 2016, 10:47:16 am »
Sweet looking !!
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Offline Aaron H

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Re: new deflexed osage bow
« Reply #17 on: January 05, 2016, 10:50:50 am »
Very well done

Offline Will B

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Re: new deflexed osage bow
« Reply #18 on: January 05, 2016, 12:03:43 pm »
That's really nice.  Great job!

Offline DanD

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Re: new deflexed osage bow
« Reply #19 on: January 05, 2016, 12:55:27 pm »
That is a very nice bow you got there Jeff, what did you use on those beautiful tips?
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Offline rps3

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Re: new deflexed osage bow
« Reply #20 on: January 05, 2016, 12:57:47 pm »
Great job. 

Offline jeffp51

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Re: new deflexed osage bow
« Reply #21 on: January 05, 2016, 02:52:49 pm »
Thanks for all the nice words, everyone

That is a very nice bow you got there Jeff, what did you use on those beautiful tips?

The red is padauk, the middle layer is hickory, and the top is an African blackwood/ ebony substitute.  If I were doing it again, I would make the first two layers thinner, as I lost most of the black in the shaping of the tips.

Offline Selfbowman

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Re: new deflexed osage bow
« Reply #22 on: January 05, 2016, 03:09:58 pm »
Very nice bow. Arvin
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Offline bubby

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Re: new deflexed osage bow
« Reply #23 on: January 05, 2016, 03:29:20 pm »
Sweet!!
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Offline horatio1226

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Re: new deflexed osage bow
« Reply #24 on: January 05, 2016, 06:06:49 pm »
Sweet bow.

Offline Drewster

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Re: new deflexed osage bow
« Reply #25 on: January 05, 2016, 06:54:11 pm »
Nice bow......you should be pleased.
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Offline Badly Bent

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Re: new deflexed osage bow
« Reply #26 on: January 05, 2016, 07:07:08 pm »
That looks like a smooth shooter that should give you years of service. Very nice bow, excellent work all around.
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Offline Danzn Bar

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Re: new deflexed osage bow
« Reply #27 on: January 05, 2016, 08:00:24 pm »
Wow very nice bend, beautiful bow......
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Offline jeffp51

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Re: new deflexed osage bow
« Reply #28 on: January 05, 2016, 09:47:41 pm »
Thank you all for your generous words.  I tend to be my own biggest critic, so I am glad you like it. I personally like the amount of snakey-ness it has. I can't wait to shoot it more, but at the moment I would likely loose all my arrows in the snow.  One thing I was wondering, most of the set this stave took was pretty early on, around the time I went to full brace--not as I reached full draw.  I never pulled past my draw weight, and tried not to leave it drawn any longer than necessary (I can't set up a pully system, because the family room is my only space big enough for the tillering tree--and the wife is already patient enough without telling her I want to start putting bolts in the wall), but I expected to see the set later instead of when I did.

Offline jeffp51

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Re: new deflexed osage bow
« Reply #29 on: February 20, 2016, 08:39:55 pm »
First day free of snow and free of the three different colds/flu I have had this winter, so I finally got a chance to shoot this bow.  It feels fast and quiet.  I hope I get a chance to focus on arrow making sometime soon.--I have not had a chance to make myself some matching shafts since I got the tools to be able to do it.

What kind of mistake causes arrows to group in a vertical line like this?