Hickory Stave ?

[Weylin]

I use Fiebing's leather dye. Works great. I just dyed my hickory flat bow with it. I dyed the back black and then I sanded the dye off the ridges. Then I dyed the bare ridges brown so they would stand out and provide some camo effect. I'm pleased with the results.

[BowJunkie]

Weylin Do you by chance have any pic you could upload?
Thanks for the info
Johnny

[Weylin]

Sorry man, I just put a coat of Tru-oil on it about 20 minutes ago I'm planning to take some pictures of it soon though. Maybe I'll snap a quick pic of the back tomorrow once I buff out the shine on the finish and I'll post it on this thread.

[soy]

Here are some pics. Of iron wood using a similar method to the one weylin uses, and the same dye(fiebing's)
hope it helps.

[Weylin]

Here's how mine turned out. sorry for the crappy pictures but hopefully you can get the idea.

[BowJunkie]

Nice work, Pictures turned out nice actually.
String her up and lets see some draw pics
Johnny

[Weylin]

Yeah, I'm planning on unveiling her with due ceremony soon. it's my first bow I ever made and I finally got it finished. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I want to put several more coats of Tru-oil on it still and I found out the hard way on my yew bow that the tru oil takes a while to cure all the way. when i strung and shot my yew bow the finish where the string laid over the back of the tips got all messed up. And that was a good week and a half after the last coat of tru-oil. So I'm gonna take my time and give the finish on this one the time it needs to cure.

[soy]

Wow weylin that looks good...there u go bowjunkie that is a good template to follow have fun and good luck, can't wait to see the pics.from both of you

[Weylin]

Thanks for the compliments, guys. 

[dbb]

Gorgeous finish!

/Mikael