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2023 bow trade - BUILD IN PROGRESS
superdav95:
I took down a couple more layers off the sapwood to clean things up a bit and little better on the Color. Still has a little caremel Color. It’s now at 50lbs at 15” draw. I had taken most of the deflex out of the limbs and flipped the tips with longer sweeping recurves. Still have some scraping to do off the belly to get the weight down. Bend still looks good just too heavy yet. The last two pics show a couple clusters of small knots at the edge. I left a few layers of sapwood around them in hopes to prevent future issues.
superdav95:
Got this bow drawn to 25” today and bend looking good. It’s at 53lbs at this moment at 25”. I’m going to keep it there, sand it and finish her up. It should finish fairly close to 50lbs when all done I figure. Tips lined up very nicely considering. It took a tiny bit of set but very respectable. I was toying around with an idea of staining the back possibly and then exposing some of the lighter sapwood with some lite scrapes. I’ll put in a shelf and shape up the handle in prep for a leather wrap. I put Buffalo horn tip overlays on this one. I think I’ll use a d97 string for this bow should work well.
superdav95:
Few more.
airkah:
I am so amazed and envious of how fast you make new bows Dave! I feel like evwry week I see a new beautiful bow of yours! Can't wait until I get to see this one all finished up! Whoever gets one of your bows in this trade is going to be a lucky guy. :)
Jakesnyder:
I guess I am behind... here's the stave and my plan .
I'm using some dense hickory and am going to do a shorter slight bend through the handle design. I'm going to do some work on it this weekend.
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