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Offline Woodland Roamer

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Black Locust Bow With Sapwood Back
« on: October 29, 2008, 09:51:19 pm »
Hey everyone, here is a bow that I just finished up. It's Black Locust, 64 inches, 1 1/2 inch wide to midlimb and tapers to 3/8 at the nocks. It pulls 52 at 26. I only removed one layer of the sapwood so it ended up just about 50/50 sap-heartwood. This stave had been cut for about ten months but as I roughed out the bow it started gaining some reflex and I think this was because of the sapwood. It now has about one inch of reflex after resting. I'll be making more of these with the sapwood on, it shoots great and I like the way the contrast looks plus it's less work than removing all the sapwod.
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Re: Black Locust Bow With Sapwood Back
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2008, 10:57:03 pm »
Good looking bow, Alan-tiller looks great, too. That's what I plan to try with that locust stave you gave me-a Cherokee longbow with a sapwood back.
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: Black Locust Bow With Sapwood Back
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2008, 11:35:22 pm »
Nice bow. I like that tiller. Sapwood backs will work  well when you don't have enough heartwood. Jawge
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Black Locust Bow With Sapwood Back
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2008, 11:44:03 pm »
Alan, is that the same locust you gave me? I keep looking at it. I'm gonna go with an Eastern Woodland style too and will keep the sapwood on. 8)     
   Cool bow with great tiller.     Pat
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Re: Black Locust Bow With Sapwood Back
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2008, 12:30:54 am »
 That is a great looking design.Nice Bow ! I am working on a locust stave now and have 2 or 3 more waiting on me.I do believe I will have to copy this one. Thanks  Frank
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Re: Black Locust Bow With Sapwood Back
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2008, 05:42:21 am »
Sweet looking bow,nice tiller and the contrast between the sap and heart wood look great. :)
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Offline DanaM

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Re: Black Locust Bow With Sapwood Back
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2008, 07:07:57 am »
Looks great, looking forward to trying BL someday.
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Re: Black Locust Bow With Sapwood Back
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2008, 08:30:09 am »
Nice job. Looks like it might be bending a bit more on the bottom limb several inches off the handle area. It might just be a weird camera angle on that snakey spot though? Hard to tell.
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Re: Black Locust Bow With Sapwood Back
« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2008, 09:23:06 am »
Nice bow, i like the contrast too. ;D ;D
I like the rapped handle.
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Offline Woodland Roamer

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Re: Black Locust Bow With Sapwood Back
« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2008, 01:48:00 pm »
Thanks Steve.

Thanks George.

Thanks Pat, no this is from a different place than the stuff I gave you and Steve. I've been looking at the rest of the staves from what I gave ya'll and the heartwood seems a bit lighter color than this bow and most locust I cut. I hope it'll work ok.

Thanks Frank.

Thanks Pappy.

Thanks Dana.

Thanks Ryan, that bottom limb has a kink that was really hard to tiller. It might be just a little off but I was ready to move on to the next one.  ::)

Thanks Limey Josh.

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Re: Black Locust Bow With Sapwood Back
« Reply #10 on: October 30, 2008, 03:11:21 pm »
Hey Steve. He gave us the crappy stuff and kept the good stuff for himself. Sheesh!!!  ::) ;D ;)
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Re: Black Locust Bow With Sapwood Back
« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2008, 04:16:16 pm »
;D It does look different from any locust I've seen-strange color. I'm looking forward to tearing into it.
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Re: Black Locust Bow With Sapwood Back
« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2008, 09:37:51 pm »
  >:D  :D Yeah I don't know what's up with the color of that stuff, best I remember it looked normal when I cut it.

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Offline michbowguy

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Re: Black Locust Bow With Sapwood Back
« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2008, 10:42:50 pm »
THAT SURE IS A NICE LOOKING BOW!! :o
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Re: Black Locust Bow With Sapwood Back
« Reply #14 on: October 31, 2008, 06:27:38 am »
Quote from: michbowguy on October 30, 2008, 10:42:50 pm
THAT SURE IS A NICE LOOKING BOW!! :o

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