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Offline OldBow

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Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
« on: July 20, 2008, 02:02:49 am »
60" NtN, 52#@ 25.5"
5/8" @ tips overlaid with 1/4 sawed Coast Fir
1 1/4" at flares
Modified flat belly
Chokecherry harvested via canoe on Clark Fork River in 2006 and backed with resawed red oak
Constructed from billets
Handle is gator from Eddie Parker aka mullet (this is the one that bit you, I think >:D)
Handle is built up with hickory, ash, oak and other scraps
A little too much reflex in right limb
Stained with a variety of stains and finished with spar varnish
Very fast at 26.5"

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Offline DanaM

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Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2008, 06:48:55 am »
Interesting combo of woods Don, looks to be a nice bow and gotta love that grip  :)
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Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2008, 06:31:57 pm »
Old Bow I really like the grip,interesting  wood combo. is chokecherry nice to work with?Nice lookin bow!.-Hammertime
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Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2008, 06:34:23 pm »
Really nice profile Don.  Good backing choice I'd say.

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Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2008, 01:42:50 am »
 Very nice bow Don, profile looks great and love the tips. I would not have thought about fir as tip overlays. I may have to try that some time. Keenan
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Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2008, 05:45:19 am »
Don, what a beautiful looking bow. Congrats!!!

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Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2008, 06:36:28 am »
Another beauty Don.Nice job on that one. :) You draw about like me. :)
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Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry
« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2008, 10:23:03 am »
Nice looking bow Don.
If you get the mid limbs working a little more it would probally help with that stacking feeling your getting and allow you to get her back to full draw. jmo
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Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry
« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2008, 08:20:30 pm »
My brother-in-law cranked this bow way back so I did a new full draw.
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Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2008, 09:08:31 pm »
Nice looking bow. I wondered if choke cherry would work for a bow.  Do you know if it has to be backed or can choke cherry last unbacked?
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Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2008, 11:55:23 pm »
Most of the members of the rose family, ie., chokecherry, hawthorn, service berry can be "stand alone" bow wood. None of it is as good as osage, hickory, ash, etc.
So, even though I have lots of bows from this group, I don't spend all that time on them without backing them. 
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Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2008, 07:47:28 am »
Fine looking bow, Don. I always enjoy seeing your work with non-mainstream materials, and you always seem to end up with a great looking finished product.
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Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2008, 08:18:12 am »
 :)  Good looking one Don nice job
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Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
« Reply #13 on: July 22, 2008, 10:37:19 am »
Looking good Don.  Does it have any hand shock? Justin
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Re: Red Oak backed Chokecherry (Better Full Draw)
« Reply #14 on: July 22, 2008, 11:43:52 am »
hey  oldbow your bow is looking great, is this your first attempt at  a glue -up?
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