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Title: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: Santanasaur on September 18, 2020, 01:14:38 pm
70#@ 30” Asymmetric design. 74.5” long, 72” ntn

The stain is mostly bloodroot. The backside has bloodroot blended with charcoal  and cornflower blues rubbed into the interlocking ridges. There’s a big harmless drying check in the handle stained with pokeberry juice. The pith is still visible since the sapling was only about 2.5” at the widest.

The upper limb sits just about dead flat and the lower holds an inch and a half of reflex. I always try to put the reflexed limb on top like a yumi but the location of certain knots forced my hand. I think this is contributing to the very positive looking tiller at brace. It’s been pretty humid so I was aggressive with the heat treat and humidity management. The stave was quick dried in a month but I got carried away and it sat in the dry box all summer.


Update: here’s a video of how I stained the bow https://youtu.be/z7aX9vilxwc
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: Santanasaur on September 18, 2020, 01:19:10 pm
More pics in high res  https://imgur.com/gallery/tROCPMC
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: simk on September 18, 2020, 02:06:36 pm
veery nice  (-S I'd like to see that stain in person, everything else is beautyful also! and nice pics  :OK
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: NonBacked on September 18, 2020, 04:55:38 pm
That’s a lot of bow for Hickory Sapling! Excellent tiller – 70# with no string follow! Good job!
H
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: bradsmith2010 on September 18, 2020, 05:53:38 pm
congrats,, :)
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: Hrothgar on September 18, 2020, 06:52:35 pm
Good tiller and nice finish. Congrats!
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: kbear on September 18, 2020, 07:08:13 pm
Cool bow man. I like it!
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: M2A on September 18, 2020, 08:21:52 pm
Nice going on that natural stain job! Heck of a bow.
Mike
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: Hawkdancer on September 18, 2020, 11:18:05 pm
Very nice!  How did you extract(make) the stains? 
Hawkdancer
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: Shamusrobert on September 19, 2020, 02:09:16 am
Awesome stick, I have been enjoying your utube movies as well. :)
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: PaSteve on September 19, 2020, 02:46:39 am
Beautiful bow. Excellent tiller. Very well done.
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: Pat B on September 19, 2020, 07:45:56 am
Cool bow.  8)  Well done.   :OK
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: dreamcraft_archery on September 19, 2020, 07:50:11 am
Beautiful bow brother!!!  )P(
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: George Tsoukalas on September 19, 2020, 08:12:59 am
excellent tiller! I love the natural stain too. Beautiful bow! Jawge
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: Sagebrush on September 19, 2020, 08:26:39 am
Love the stain!!!
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: Stixnstones on September 19, 2020, 08:56:33 am
Very cool.... nice work
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: Santanasaur on September 19, 2020, 09:22:52 am
Thanks everyone, I’m having a lot of fun playing with natural dyes and trying new color schemes.
 
Hawkdancer I use the lazy method of just rubbing the plant matter directly. I like the rustic look it gives and how it fills the pores.
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: pumarchery on September 19, 2020, 09:30:48 am
I said it before somewhere else, you're making me jealous with all that pretty wood you get! Nice build, the grain pops into your eye beautifully, good crafting to ya!

- Michael
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: aznboi3644 on September 19, 2020, 02:14:35 pm
I love it!!  Looks great and that’s a heavy weight sapling
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: Victor on September 19, 2020, 03:32:06 pm

Wonderful bow! Nice tiller and cool handle  :)
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: Stoner on September 19, 2020, 04:33:26 pm
Your bow is why I come to this site. Beautiful, simple, graceful arc. Well done! Great Craftsmanship. John
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: bjrogg on September 19, 2020, 06:02:56 pm
Nicely done sir.
Bjrogg
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: AndrewS on September 20, 2020, 01:17:33 am
A fine bow and a very cool way of colouring the wood :)
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: Marc St Louis on September 20, 2020, 06:52:00 am
Nice looking bow
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: liyeliye123123 on September 28, 2020, 07:21:21 am
love it! good work !

Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: Deerhunter21 on September 28, 2020, 08:26:54 pm
this slipped past me for some reason... thats an awesome bow!!!
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: druid on September 28, 2020, 11:37:37 pm
Correct tiller for reflexed limbs. Good bow and good poundage. 💪🏾
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: Parnell on September 29, 2020, 07:43:56 am
Very cool!  Really like that F/D.
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: medicinewheel on October 01, 2020, 01:36:31 am
Very nice bow!
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: IdahoMatt on October 02, 2020, 11:50:43 am
I like the way the back turned out on that.  Great job
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: bownarra on October 02, 2020, 03:32:55 pm
Excellent bow all round. Perfect tiller :)
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: StickMark on October 03, 2020, 12:23:35 pm
Longbows, so smooth to do archery with...nice
Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: Santanasaur on October 05, 2020, 10:57:03 am
Thanks again for the kind words everyone. I just finished up this video explaining how I stained the bow and my lazy approach to staining with plants. In the description there’s a going list of bowyer channels on youtube. I would love to know if there are any I missed. https://youtu.be/z7aX9vilxwc


Title: Re: Woodlands Flatbow. Hickory Sapling with Natural Plant Dyes. 72” 70#@30”
Post by: Pappy on October 06, 2020, 04:02:42 pm
Beautiful bow, almost looks like you left the bark on. Very cool. Pappy