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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Dean Marlow on November 22, 2009, 04:40:39 pm

Title: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: Dean Marlow on November 22, 2009, 04:40:39 pm
Here is my main bow that I have been hunting with this year. It is an Osage selfbow. It is 66" long. It is 1-1/2" wide at the fades and tapers to 7-16" wide at the tips. It is 45lbs. at 28". It has Diamondback rattlesnake skins and Gabon Ebony overlay tips. It came out a little lighter than I wanted because I took a little to much wood out of the top snakey limb. So I had to scrape the bottom limb to even it up. Dean

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Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: NTD on November 22, 2009, 04:45:08 pm
That is a Very good looking bow.  Tiller looks outstanding and whatever finish you used really made those skins look nice. 
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: radius on November 22, 2009, 04:50:04 pm
good job, mister!  and now i've got a face to go with the name. 

Gots to get me some osage...
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: sander on November 22, 2009, 05:27:20 pm
Some real pretty curves on that bow.  Great job, bet its fun to shoot.
Sander
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: George Tsoukalas on November 22, 2009, 05:37:17 pm
That's awesome! Great job. Jawge
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: gmc on November 22, 2009, 06:06:40 pm
Dean, that is really one gorgeous bow from unbrace to brace to full draw. Congratulations!
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: Dean Marlow on November 22, 2009, 07:08:40 pm
Thanks for the nice compliments guys. I cut this log last winter and it was straight as an arrow. When I started splitting it this is what came out of it. You just can't tell by looking at a full log how the grain is going to run until you start splitting it. Every stave that came out of that straight log had this type of grain. You could lay every stave out of this log side by side and they all looked the same. In fact there are about three other staves floating around out there in the U.S.A from this same log and I would really like to see the bows that they will become. Brock,Ted, and Joe let's see them on here when you get them done. These guys do visit this site. Dean
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: NOMADIC PIRATE on November 22, 2009, 07:17:01 pm
Terrific
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: PeteC on November 22, 2009, 08:15:34 pm
Nice bow Dean!Good huntin' to you too. God Bless
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: Okie on November 22, 2009, 09:02:22 pm
Very nice! Love that Osage. I hope ya get to harvest something with it.
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: Rich Saffold on November 22, 2009, 09:13:11 pm
That is a beauty Dean ;D.
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: tombo on November 22, 2009, 09:48:28 pm
That is a beauty. I like that snake in the grass ! Nice work.
Tom
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: adb on November 22, 2009, 09:51:46 pm
A very nice bow!! Your tiller is spot on.
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: The Burnt Hill Archer on November 22, 2009, 10:14:19 pm
whoa! totally threw me off guard when i saw how snakey it was. i was figuring just a strait profile. well done!

Phil
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: Pappy on November 23, 2009, 05:50:10 am
Beautiful bow,I love it. :)
   Pappy
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: Hrothgar on November 23, 2009, 06:48:24 am
Dean, good looking bow. With the snake skin backing it could pass for real!
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: Marc St Louis on November 23, 2009, 08:04:18 am
That is indeed a nice bow
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: Justin Snyder on November 23, 2009, 09:58:46 am
Great looking bow for sure. Thanks for sharing it with us Dean.
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: The Gopher on November 23, 2009, 10:08:54 am
i love how straight it is from the side view, then you flip it over to see the profile and...WHAM, its a snake!
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: Josh on November 23, 2009, 10:19:32 am
Nice snake bow!  I love that snakey osage wood.  It's fun to work with, isnt it?  :) -josh
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: OldBow on November 23, 2009, 10:25:01 am
This is a real attention getter. Very skillfully made, too.
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: Bonsai on November 23, 2009, 11:48:17 am
wow,

i love those snakeskins!
Itīs a real beauty

Stephan
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: bcbull on November 23, 2009, 11:50:03 am
HEY DEAN  MAN YA DID THAT ONE PROUD !!!!!HAHA GOTTA GET MY BUTT IN GEAR FINISH MINE  GOT IT ABOUT HALF DONE NOW IV GOT SOME TIME OFF WORK  ILL FIND THE TIME HA   CANT BELIVE I MISSED THE POST THE OTHER DAY HAHA BROCK  
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: medicinewheel on November 23, 2009, 12:26:06 pm
As they all say: beautifull bow, great tiller!
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: Pat B on November 23, 2009, 12:52:23 pm
That's a great snaky bow, Dean. Well done! 8)
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: Dean Marlow on November 23, 2009, 08:28:35 pm
Thanks again everybody for the nice compliments. It is quite an attention getter around a crowd. I started this bow at Mojam this summer. I had a fellow look at it the other day and he said it looks like a lightning bolt coming out of the clouds. So that will be it's name. Lightning bolt.
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: barebo on November 23, 2009, 08:32:30 pm
I'll bet that at 45# it'll bring down a deer with a well placed arrow right smartly !!! Perfect string alignment on that snaky stave, and great tiller and finish work. I'd be Very Proud to say I made it - it's a Beauty !!
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: Catahoula on November 23, 2009, 08:39:42 pm
Dean,

Wow!  I hope I get there someday!  Awesome bow.

Rand
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: Hoot on November 25, 2009, 12:29:23 am
Great piece of work.... just beautiful
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: Christophero on November 25, 2009, 01:06:24 pm
Gorgeous.  I love that trim handle profile.  Slender like that fits the hand so well. 
Hope to see a deer or two taken with that viper.
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: George Tsoukalas on November 25, 2009, 01:34:33 pm
Dean, what is the brace height set at on that beautiful  bow? Jawge
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: Dean Marlow on November 25, 2009, 04:53:38 pm
George the brace is 6-3/4". I put my fist on the handle and put my thumb up and that is where I have been putting it. Dean
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: OldBow on November 29, 2009, 01:02:50 pm
What's not to like?! Very nice bow and bookmarked, too!
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: S.C. hunter on December 01, 2009, 10:18:23 pm
Hey Dean,
  Guess I am not the only one that likes that bow !!  I am still drooling over it! Again great looking bow.


   steve
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: Fried Pie on December 02, 2009, 08:41:38 am
Nice job!  I like it.
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: Ryano on December 02, 2009, 09:36:54 am
Nice character bow. Looks like it's a little stiff right off the fades, but you've got plenty of limb working there at 66" I guess. Good job.  ;D
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: denny on December 02, 2009, 10:31:44 am
Everyone likes an osage bow,even me,especially when they are snakey. Real pretty bow,I like the light color and it looks like it might bite too. Don.t worry about the color it will turn a dark crystal color as it ages. That is why they call it os age lol. Denny p.s. send me a stave and I'll do my magic...
Title: Re: My new hunting bow for this year
Post by: brownhillboy on December 02, 2009, 06:16:38 pm
Very nice, I love those snake bows!