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Sudbury Style Oak Board Bow 57lb @ 26"
willie:
--- Quote from: Threy Cameron on November 07, 2025, 03:18:45 am ---Completed that Sudbury style bow I briefly displayed in my last post. Found a remarkable difference between the heat treat by heat gun vs coals, I found the coals did a much better job at penetrating further into the wood. This could be due to a number of factors perhaps my heat gun isn't up to task or the more radiant heat from the coals over 3 hours slowly baked the wood rather than pinpoint hardened areas?
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that looked to be a nice red oak board you used. maybe a lot different from whats commonly available in North America. possibly not as dry to begin with?
Beautiful work on that bow
Hamish:
Textbook example of a Sudbury. Hard to beat those organic shapes, smoothly blending into each other.
Threy Cameron:
--- Quote from: willie on November 07, 2025, 03:26:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: Threy Cameron on November 07, 2025, 03:18:45 am ---Completed that Sudbury style bow I briefly displayed in my last post. Found a remarkable difference between the heat treat by heat gun vs coals, I found the coals did a much better job at penetrating further into the wood. This could be due to a number of factors perhaps my heat gun isn't up to task or the more radiant heat from the coals over 3 hours slowly baked the wood rather than pinpoint hardened areas?
that looked to be a nice red oak board you used. maybe a lot different from whats commonly available in North America. possibly not as dry to begin with?
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Beautiful work on that bow
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Thankyou I'm happy with how the bow turned out, quite shocked at how well the heat treatment worked. The bow is a tad plain at the moment but I'm still deciding whether to decorate it with some painting or drawing. Just haven't decided on a kind of marking pen yet though I'm looking at Sakura Pigma Archival Ink pens for fade resistance.
The Red Oak board is American according to the website and the people I talked too at the lumber yard, though apparently there are around 20 some species of Red and White Oaks so it could be an outlier species? We do have a relatively high humidity here in NZ so that could make a difference?
I really did get a great board from the selection they had, it was a 6m long board that was just over 8 inches wide. The grain was nice and straight so I milled the board into 4 boards 2" wide and 70" long, I'm currently working on the third milled board and have one to go. I do have a large offcut section that I might make into kids bows for an upcoming homeschooling event here.
Threy Cameron:
--- Quote from: Hamish on November 07, 2025, 06:35:01 pm ---Textbook example of a Sudbury. Hard to beat those organic shapes, smoothly blending into each other.
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Agreed there's something so aesthetic about the flowing curves and contours, not to mention the designs durability and performance.
Threy Cameron:
--- Quote from: Del the cat on November 07, 2025, 06:32:59 am ---Nice work, clean, simple, not overstressed, just what you'd want out hunting.
Del
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Thank you man, I had been meaning to make another Sudbury for some time finally got around to getting myself some good timber for the job. My brother really enjoyed shooting it in too.
I am looking into doing some drawings on the belly as decorations though I'm unsure of what ink or pens to acquire to do the job well. I am looking at the Sakura Pigma Archival ink Pens heard good things about them so far.
Appreciate the comment
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