Author Topic: 2018 Bow Trade-Completed (Read 103519 times)

M2A · « **Reply #345 on:** August 12, 2018, 12:15:46 am »

Great looking bow Hoosierf. Very nice tiller. Think your right with the resolution...hard for me to see the details but the draw in-hand looks right on and that what counts. Mike

penderbender · « **Reply #346 on:** August 12, 2018, 10:51:08 pm »

This is the first horn nocks I have done, so I hope they turn out decent. I finished roughing them out tonight. They are on a 73" ttt yew elb. I will cut some new string grooves tomorrow and get it back on the tree to finish tillering, and take a few more pics. Cheers- Brendan

hoosierf · « **Reply #347 on:** August 13, 2018, 06:24:30 pm »

Let’s try this approach for better pics.

https://imgur.com/gallery/fxPSnxe

M2A · « **Reply #348 on:** August 13, 2018, 08:01:26 pm »

Real nice Hoosierf!

Mike

Swampman · « **Reply #349 on:** August 13, 2018, 08:06:01 pm »

That bow looks great Hoosier. That bend looks great and it is dressed up real nice. I love it!

Swampman · « **Reply #350 on:** August 13, 2018, 08:07:50 pm »

Pendebender, that yes is looking real nice. Sounds like a good stout draw too. Should sing an arrow right along.

penderbender · « **Reply #351 on:** August 14, 2018, 09:57:31 pm »

Got the nocks cleaned up, and put it on the "tree" for a token picture. Unstrung and 22" draw. It's getting there. Cheers- Brendan

burchett.donald · « **Reply #352 on:** August 15, 2018, 03:11:59 am »

Brendon,
Nice looking start...Wish my tiller tree was that beautiful...

Don

M2A · « **Reply #353 on:** August 15, 2018, 06:58:17 am »

That looks like a great piece of yew you have. Nice ratio of sap to hartwood from my novice eye. Never shot or even seen an elb design up close before. I do like that style of nock, looking forward to seeing it all finished up.

Putting some oil on my swap bow. I learned my phone camera stretches the image near the edges, that kinda messed me up for a few days. Made one limb look maybe 3 to 4 inches longer that the other lol. With any luck I can get some good pictures this weekend and post. Mike

hoosierf · « **Reply #354 on:** August 15, 2018, 08:32:13 am »

That’s gonna be an awesome yew bow. Nice

Morgan · « **Reply #355 on:** August 18, 2018, 08:47:16 pm »

Brendan that is looking very nice. I like your workshop!

M2A · « **Reply #356 on:** August 19, 2018, 04:09:36 pm »

Hi Folks, my bow is complete.

Its 65.5 ntn osage. 4 inch handle and 3 inch fades. Tip overlays are tulip wood and water buffalo horn. I shaped the horn to resemble the shape of the keeled scale on the diamond back skins applied to the limbs(maybe not accurate but makes sense in my mind). The handle is cherry bark wrapped with dogbane on top and bottom. I thought the cherry bark matched well with the tulip wood and I also dyed(red/black) a few strands of dogbane just for some extra character. I was able to get a beaver pelt from a friend of a friend and made the string silencers from that.

I'm very pleased with how things turned out. Its a lot of fun to shot and falls in the requested draw weight. So many things I did on this bow was a 1st, including working with osage. My only hope is that the guy who gets it enjoys it as much as I did making it.

Lots of pictures here. Don't think anyone would mind

Didn't have the time to go some where better for pics so the back yard had to work.
Thanks all, Mike

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