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Inspired by Rodney Wright's Firehawk: Osage and Hickory setback/recurve
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Cut the shelf in today, and cut an osage arrow pass to inlay, as well as rosewood tip overlays. So far I am very pleased with the contrast of these two woods. I will make another bow just like this one, only wider and therefore higher in draw weight.
Still need work on my inlay skills...but it's pretty close!
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FINISHED!
Today I cleaned it up, sanded it, shaped the tips and handle, and gave it a couple coats of tung oil.
Here is the handle, before and after oiling.
A shot of the full bow. It's not the best picture, but you get the idea. This is before oiling.
Here's a picture of the tips. I really like that little sliver of rosewood. Gives it beauty and character.
So there it is. Full draw picture: in silhouette!
And last but not least, a picture of my homemade thickness planer. This fence doubles as a bandsaw fence for my hurting little ryobi 9" bandsaw. If you use a rig like this for thickness planing, be careful to take off only 1/32 or maximum 1/16 at a time, and GO SLOW! And be sure to keep a good grip on the material
Thank you Rodney Wright! I've already started work on another one of these. It's going to be an exact duplicate, but wider, and so it will be stronger. This one finished out at 32# at 28 inches. But it shoots nice and straight, and pretty fast due to its profile.
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WEll, I contacted Rodney Wright, and asked him to check it out. Got the approval, but he did tell me that the bow I was copying was not his firehawk but another, similar bow he calls "Buffalo Stick".
He lives in Quebec, which is probably as far from here as Mexico...
Guess he won't mind!
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Added one more piece to the back of the handle, for comfort...
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