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Stringman

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One sweet lil' shooter
« on: February 25, 2015, 01:39:56 pm »
This little beauty has been taking up bench space for months, and I'm finally ready to call her done. I cut this stick down to 55" and started shaping it to accept sinew. Tillered, flipped the tips, toasted the belly and then put down 3 courses of deer leg sinew before letting it hang in the trusses. After final tiller I brought her along slowly to make sure it could handle the bend. Eventually I added rams horn tips, a really nice WDB skin and cork handle (front and back) before covering it with braintan. Now it's pulling about 48#@27" with a Dyna97 string.















Thanks fer lookin, and God Bless!
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: One sweet lil' shooter
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2015, 02:26:48 pm »
Looks like a sweet shooter indeed! I have to try that osage/sinew combo someday. Killer bow all around Scott!
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the mono chord, the initial rune of fine art
The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and..." Maurice Thompso

Offline bubby

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Re: One sweet lil' shooter
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2015, 02:29:03 pm »
I bet that's a sweet shooter i like everything about it Scott, great looking bow, bub
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Offline Springbuck

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Re: One sweet lil' shooter
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2015, 02:51:44 pm »
Beautiful execution.  Is it osage, though?  Seems light in color, more like locust.
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Offline ajooter

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Re: One sweet lil' shooter
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2015, 02:56:05 pm »
That's a beauty!! Nicely done.
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Stringman

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Re: One sweet lil' shooter
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2015, 03:07:32 pm »
@springbuck - If I could get black locust to do that, I'd have even more of it laid up than I do osage. All my BL gets burnt as firewood. Don't even try anymore.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: One sweet lil' shooter
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2015, 03:12:20 pm »
Excellent little bow, Scott   8)
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: One sweet lil' shooter
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2015, 03:22:34 pm »
I love that style of bow.  Short sinew backed osage is a great combo.  Nice job on it Scott.  Looks like a hunter to me.
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Offline rps3

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Re: One sweet lil' shooter
« Reply #8 on: February 25, 2015, 03:29:27 pm »
Nice one. Did you reverse brace after sinew?
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Offline bradsmith2010

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Re: One sweet lil' shooter
« Reply #9 on: February 25, 2015, 03:41:03 pm »
very nice,,  :)
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Stringman

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Re: One sweet lil' shooter
« Reply #10 on: February 25, 2015, 03:42:15 pm »
Quote from: rps3 on February 25, 2015, 03:29:27 pm
Nice one. Did you reverse brace after sinew?

Nope, I did add some reflex when I toasted the belly. I started with 3", and the sinew pulled it back another inch.
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Stringman

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Re: One sweet lil' shooter
« Reply #11 on: February 25, 2015, 03:47:22 pm »
See if this post works. This is a video so touch the pic.

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Offline johnfolchetti

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Re: One sweet lil' shooter
« Reply #12 on: February 25, 2015, 03:59:22 pm »
Very nice.....I like everything about that.
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Offline IndianGuy

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Re: One sweet lil' shooter
« Reply #13 on: February 25, 2015, 04:07:24 pm »
You need to send that bow my way and let me test her out or you!  8)
Very cool bow.
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Offline Parnell

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Re: One sweet lil' shooter
« Reply #14 on: February 25, 2015, 04:19:11 pm »
Pretty much perfect, all around.  That's a great bow.
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