2018 Bow Trade-Completed

[M2A]

Chased a ring on the osage stave. Need to clean up around some pin knots yet. Gonna lay it out tomorrow 1st, think I can keep most of the knots out of a bow. A bit more character to it than I expected, and nothing wrong with that. Figuring 66" ntn, 4"ridged handle, 2-3" fades. Going to lay it out 2" wide to start anticipating to be able to narrow it down a little from there.
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[Morgan]

Got all the cambium scraped off my stave and profile laid out. I’ll rough it out and maybe start tillering it this weekend. Most bows I’ve made for myself from hackberry has been 1 3/8”-1 1/2” wide just for personal preference. As this is going to someone else, and the general rule with whitewoods is wider =better / safer, I’m gonna rough this one 2” and probably wind up 1 3/4”. Poor photo, but it shows progress little as it may be

[Swampman]

I am excited to see the results of that hackberry stave Morgan.

[Morgan]

Mike, the stave ought to make a good bow if I don’t goof it up. Has a tad of prop twist that I’ll try to do away with if it doesn’t go away when I get it roughed out. Also a little jog on one tip. I guarantee you the result will be pretty modest compared to many of these other guys bows.

[Mo_coon-catcher]

Last night I gave the black locust bow a good heat treat and pulled the one limb into a matchin reflex out of the handle. Hopefully when I pull it off the form when I get home it’ll hold and be a matching amount of reflex.

Kyle

[Mo_coon-catcher]

I’m saturating to pull it back and plan to take it to full draw tonight. It’s 64” nock to nock and 1.25” wide excluding knot areas I left wider. How much weight do you all think I can get this piece of black locust to pull and maintain 1” or less of set at 28”. I’m working on evening out the strength of the limbs. The bend is looking real good to me as o pull back. Just the one limb is showing a bit strong and I’m slowely easing it back as I even things. The handle tilt is slowely going away. I haven’t dropped weight yet as I’m just starting to touch the goal weight. I have a goal weight I’m pulling it too that may or may not give away the ricipient. But I’m curious what you all think it can be pulled to with no I’ll effects. I’ll get pics up of the bend when I’m done for the night.

Kyle

[Mo_coon-catcher]

Sorry about the poor quality pictures, it’s a little dim where I’m working. Here it is pulled to 26” sitting at 3/4” set after unbracing. It’s time for a sanding and shoot in before final weighing and a tree pull to full draw.

Kyle

[penderbender]

Looking good Kyle! I'm guessing it's in the mid 40s right now. Cheers- Brendan

[Mo_coon-catcher]

Thanks! It may be pulling a decent bit more than that, but I won’t say how much more.

Kyle

[Swampman]

That is looking great Kyle. 

[Morgan]

Looks like you’re doing fine work on that difficult stave Kyle!

[Mo_coon-catcher]

I may have pushed it a little hard. They’re not bad, but I fretted out one spot on the lower limb where it narrows down between the handle and a knot. That’s what I get for trying to push it to 65#. It’s still sitting at 1” of set after being braced for an hour and about 3 dozen arrows. It’s very quiet and shock free and throws a 625gr arrow at 140fps at my 26” draw and touched 145 when I pull to 27”. So definitely huntable but nothing impressive by any means.  It’s hard to see in te picture but the frets are there.

What do you all think, finish it out or start a new one?

Kyle

[hoosierf]

I’d long string brace it backwards to open the frets then fill them with the thinnest CA you have, sand it after it’s hard, then do it again. Then I’d trap the back a bit on both limbs for balance where the frets are and shoot several flights of arrows to see if the frets changed. If they’re stable I’d keep on going. I have a couple like that I’ve been shooting a few years now. Neither are any worse. I’ve also wrapped both limbs with sinew after the super glue treatment and that’s worked for me. It’s too cool to burn. If you’re not comfortable after the shoot-in throw some tru oil on it and give it away to a close friend or leave it for a guest bow.

[JWMALONE]

Been busy guys, gonna get back to it this weekend.

[Morgan]

Got a little done between chores, fixing a trailer, and running errands today(gotta love these longer days!  ). Got it roughed out, bending a little bit on the floor, and about 99% of the rough tool marks removed. Limbs are about.
 1 7/8”. I tapered the tips the last 8” to 1/2” tips for now. Really don’t like the looks of that, would like to taper it from 12” or so but a little snake starts about 8 1/2” from one tip and I don’t want to cut through that wiggly grain.. Not sure how I’m gonna handle it, but I don’t like the way it looks. Don’t like the way them wide limbs look for that matter lol.
Gonna get it bending enough with a long string to brace then heat the belly and remove the slight prop twist if I can. I may induce some reflex too, undecided now.