Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Easternarcher on February 19, 2010, 01:15:28 pm
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OK, this bow started life as a BBI blank from D. Knight back in November. I didn't trust the wood I had available so put in a call to Dave for what I needed.
This MEDIUM R/D was way more than I had tried in the past and I was abit intimidated by it, but Dave helped me out and here's the result.
63in. NTN - 68lbs at 29" draw length. :o Came in abit high for weight too but he likes it!. (I don't have a good bow scale YET). Boo backed Ipe with bone tip overlays. This is the second set I've tried and I really like the look. I find that bone smells quite bad when you cut it, but man does it take a nice polish! These were very white when finished and I wanted to tone it down abit. So I painted on a couple coats of Tru-Oil and that gave them a more amber/ivory look. Overall the bow has 2 coats of shellac under 6 coats of Tru-Oil. Again I buffed the backing down with steel wool to cut the shine abit.
The grip was actually copied from a Bear Montana that agd83 had and he wanted the grip replicated. I came VERY close in scale and feel. The laminations are I believe: IPE-Osage and Brazilian Cherry.
Teh stain is Fiebings leather dye which covered the entire backing, but I used 0000 steel wool between the nodes to give some contrast, again as per customer's request. Well He's happy and so am I. And Thank You to Dave Knight for building a great bowblank.
Enjoy and please feel free to critique it, as that's how I learn!
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And the money shots!
Again, apologises for my lack of photograpy skills!
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that bow looks great! Where's a full draw? :)
edit: Oh there it is! Looks great! :)
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Looks great!
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It looks nice. The brace profile looks.....different....not bad, especially since I know nothing about R/D designs, but just different than other R/D's I've seen.
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It looks nice. The brace profile looks.....different....not bad, especially since I know nothing about R/D designs, but just different than other R/D's I've seen.
NTD, yeah don't be thrown by the pic whilst on the tiller tree...that was taken while the blank was still at full length, before I piked the limbs and even before final tiller. The pic taken with the other two bows is actually the final brace profile.
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Ok ;D Sorry man I wasn't trying to rag on your bow, it just looked different O:) The pic of it leaning on the tree looks much more...normal ;D Great job on that! It sure does have that DKnight signature look.
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Ok ;D Sorry man I wasn't trying to rag on your bow, it just looked different O:) The pic of it leaning on the tree looks much more...normal ;D Great job on that! It sure does have that DKnight signature look.
HEy, No worries! That hybrid profile throws me abit too. ;D
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Got your very fine BBI bookmarked under Feb laminates for BOM. Nice Job!!
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Got your very fine BBI bookmarked under Feb laminates for BOM. Nice Job!!
Thank You Sir!
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Very sweet bow, I really like the dye job and the profile on that one
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how did you get the different colors of dye to fade into each other like that? I am about to do a bow the same way and am kinda intimidated by the transitions between colors... Did you use Rit dye? Thanks man. :)
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how did you get the different colors of dye to fade into each other like that? I am about to do a bow the same way and am kinda intimidated by the transitions between colors... Did you use Rit dye? Thanks man. :)
What I did was use leatehr dye in the dark colour over the entire bow, then use 0000 steel wool to lightly rub out the transition spots to almost get it down to bare wood or boo in this case. featehr out the end strokes and you have instant sunburst effect. Good luck!
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cool beans Got it! :)
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Great looking bow.Sweet . :)
Pappy
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Very nice bow, Davids blanks are top notch eh
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Yep, both these fine gentlemen did a bang up job.This bow draws like a dream and hits fast and hard.I liiiiiike it. :D
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We'll revisit this bow for March Laminate BOM seeing as how I didn't include it for February. ::)
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That bow looks real fast, and pretty too..