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2023 bow trade - BUILD IN PROGRESS
Kidder:
That’s really nice Dave! Love the ridge on the fades. Yew is so nice to carve like that. Did you decide on a color yet? I always gravitate to cordovan. Black on yew looks pretty sweet too! Keep having fun.
superdav95:
Thanks Brendan. I was thinking of a fade of dark Color to light out towards the tips. I was gonna poss do a black leather handle wrap.
Mafort:
is it too late to sign up? i have a hickory stave im wanting to try out for the bow trade. if not its all cool.
Kidder:
--- Quote from: Mafort on August 15, 2023, 11:46:51 am ---is it too late to sign up? i have a hickory stave im wanting to try out for the bow trade. if not its all cool.
--- End quote ---
I think we are pretty far into it to move things around much. Bummer. But we’ll be done before the new year and I will make sure to hit you up directly on next years.
superdav95:
Got My bow is done with 4 good coats of true oil finish on the belly and sides. I ended up covering this bow with some thin strips of rawhide I had left from another project. Worked out great. I got this idea from Simk here on his latest yew bow posted. It’s a great combination as it somewhat protects the soft sap wood. I gave it a dark transition from black and tan and yellow out towards the tips. I made dabbing sponge to give it some dimension with the dabs of tan and black fading out towards the tips. I call this pattern lava rock. The pattern of the sponge light dabbed over the yellow gives it a molten lava with cooling dark rock exposed. This bow has horn nocks which are durable too. I took kidders advise and went dark on this one and matched with black leather handle wrap. It came in at 50.86lbs at 25” draw. Dang close to my goal of 50lbs. I’m gonna leave it there. I only tillered it to 25” and as such took very little set. This bow stave if you recall had a natural deflex thru the handle which was addressed later in the build and tiller. Once I got it bending nice and close to my weight I added the flipped tips and backset heated in. Then back up on the tiller to remove more weight. This worked well for me and no major issues. Bow has a bit of character like most yew does. I put about 60 shots thru it yesterday and shoots well. I may make a new string for it as I’m not happy with one of the loops being a little large for the nock. I’m gonna mark it up with some stats and my recipient and call it done. Here’s some pics.
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