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Offline dantolin

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Bitter orange bow(updated with pics and videos 30-5)
« on: May 26, 2010, 02:47:27 pm »
Hi,
I'm finishing one bow that I tillered this weekend.

It comes from a bitter orange sapling (1" 3/4 diam. at widest) with some character (some knots, humps and bumps)
that fell in a wind storm in autumm 2008.
 61"ntn, working handle; a hair less than 1"3/8 at widest (34mm) tapering to a hair less than 1/2 at tips (11mm). Handle 1"1/4 (31.5mm).It weights 15.80 oz (448grams)
47 at my 26"@ . Laburnum tips ovarlays.(Laburnum wood was a gift from my friend and bowyer Blaise Fontannaz, of Switzeland).

Thanks Gordon for all your spiring sapling bows!

I hope to have pics of the finishes tomorrow.

Thanks,
David


   

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Re: Bitter orange bow
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2010, 02:53:11 pm »
Oh my goodnes!!!!   That bow is beautiful. Tiller looks perfect. Great job!   :)
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Offline Parnell

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Re: Bitter orange bow
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2010, 02:53:58 pm »
Very nice bow!  I love a D bow with some character.  An unusual wood, also, but I've seen it growing in some yards here in S. Florida.  You did a great job, congratulations.
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Re: Bitter orange bow
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2010, 03:22:05 pm »
wow, now that looks like a challenge. nice bow
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Re: Bitter orange bow
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2010, 03:26:07 pm »
Fantastically done Tillering....that Bow Rocks..... ;)
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Offline dantolin

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Re: Bitter orange bow
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2010, 03:49:38 pm »
Thank you Josh, Parnell, Ken and Destructo.
Parnell, I think taht we have similar weather in my mediterranean area as in yours, and Florida was a spanish territory long ago,
so  the ancients must have planted some bitter oranges there. Here they use to put them as ornamental trees in the cities.
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: Bitter orange bow
« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2010, 11:49:35 pm »
Excellent work! Well done. Jawge
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Re: Bitter orange bow
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2010, 12:21:08 am »
Very nice, simple bow. Excellent work!  8)   The laburnum looks like osage. Did Blaise give you a big enough piece of laburnum to make a bow? It makes good bows from what I've seen.
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Offline dantolin

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Re: Bitter orange bow
« Reply #8 on: May 27, 2010, 08:54:31 am »

Thanks Jawge and Pat.
I find darker laburnum than osage, Pat,maybe the pic shows it lighter, or are you talking about mass, elasticity...?
No, I haven't any stave or billet from laburnum, but I've got a lot of seeds...maybe in some years they grow enough to give me some good bowwood.
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Re: Bitter orange bow
« Reply #9 on: May 27, 2010, 09:04:56 am »
very nice tiller!
I got a bitter orange tree in a flower pot. but only 2 feet tall. maybe bowwood in 20 years...
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Re: Bitter orange bow(finishes fics)
« Reply #10 on: May 27, 2010, 03:47:18 pm »

Thanks Faltenhemd. In less time maybe you have a sapling bow. Let's wait...

Here it is finished:3 coats of shellac mixed with lineseed oil.Dacron sting with linen serving.Thin cow leather over linen wraping.



Thanks for looking.
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Re: Bitter orange bow(finishes fics)
« Reply #11 on: May 27, 2010, 03:56:11 pm »
Absolutely beautiful.
Personally I would like to have seen a video on scraping around those humps, bumps,and knots ;D ;D ;D.
Couldn't have been easy!
Job well done...

Ron
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Re: Bitter orange bow(finishes fics)
« Reply #12 on: May 27, 2010, 03:59:41 pm »
...Finished out nice!  You've made one heck of a bow there man!   :)
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Re: Bitter orange bow(finishes fics)
« Reply #13 on: May 27, 2010, 04:02:13 pm »
Thanks Ron, yes it was funny, hahaha!
And thank you again,Josh.
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Offline AncientArcher76

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« Reply #14 on: May 27, 2010, 04:45:52 pm »
Good to see a nice character bow absolutly beautiful!  Thanks for sharing!

Russ
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