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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: dantolin on May 26, 2010, 02:47:27 pm

Title: Bitter orange bow(updated with pics and videos 30-5)
Post by: dantolin on May 26, 2010, 02:47:27 pm

Hi,
I'm finishing one bow that I tillered this weekend.

It comes from a bitter orange sapling (1" 3/4 diam. at widest) with some character (some knots, humps and bumps)
that fell in a wind storm in autumm 2008.
 61"ntn, working handle; a hair less than 1"3/8 at widest (34mm) tapering to a hair less than 1/2 at tips (11mm). Handle 1"1/4 (31.5mm).It weights 15.80 oz (448grams)
47 at my 26"@ . Laburnum tips ovarlays.(Laburnum wood was a gift from my friend and bowyer Blaise Fontannaz, of Switzeland).

Thanks Gordon for all your spiring sapling bows!

I hope to have pics of the finishes tomorrow.

Thanks,
David


(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t202/dantolin/naranjo%20II/IMG_0980.jpg)   
(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t202/dantolin/naranjo%20II/IMG_0983.jpg)
(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t202/dantolin/naranjo%20II/IMG_0986.jpg)

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow
Post by: Josh on May 26, 2010, 02:53:11 pm

Oh my goodnes!!!!   That bow is beautiful. Tiller looks perfect. Great job!   :)

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow
Post by: Parnell on May 26, 2010, 02:53:58 pm

Very nice bow!  I love a D bow with some character.  An unusual wood, also, but I've seen it growing in some yards here in S. Florida.  You did a great job, congratulations.

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow
Post by: ken75 on May 26, 2010, 03:22:05 pm

wow, now that looks like a challenge. nice bow

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow
Post by: El Destructo on May 26, 2010, 03:26:07 pm

Fantastically done Tillering....that Bow Rocks..... ;)

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow
Post by: dantolin on May 26, 2010, 03:49:38 pm

Thank you Josh, Parnell, Ken and Destructo.
Parnell, I think taht we have similar weather in my mediterranean area as in yours, and Florida was a spanish territory long ago,
so  the ancients must have planted some bitter oranges there. Here they use to put them as ornamental trees in the cities.

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow
Post by: George Tsoukalas on May 26, 2010, 11:49:35 pm

Excellent work! Well done. Jawge

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow
Post by: Pat B on May 27, 2010, 12:21:08 am

Very nice, simple bow. Excellent work!  8)   The laburnum looks like osage. Did Blaise give you a big enough piece of laburnum to make a bow? It makes good bows from what I've seen.

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow
Post by: dantolin on May 27, 2010, 08:54:31 am

Thanks Jawge and Pat.
I find darker laburnum than osage, Pat,maybe the pic shows it lighter, or are you talking about mass, elasticity...?
No, I haven't any stave or billet from laburnum, but I've got a lot of seeds...maybe in some years they grow enough to give me some good bowwood.

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow
Post by: faltenhemd on May 27, 2010, 09:04:56 am

very nice tiller!
I got a bitter orange tree in a flower pot. but only 2 feet tall. maybe bowwood in 20 years...

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow(finishes fics)
Post by: dantolin on May 27, 2010, 03:47:18 pm

Thanks Faltenhemd. In less time maybe you have a sapling bow. Let's wait...

Here it is finished:3 coats of shellac mixed with lineseed oil.Dacron sting with linen serving.Thin cow leather over linen wraping.
(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t202/dantolin/naranjo%20II/IMG_0989.jpg)
(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t202/dantolin/naranjo%20II/IMG_0990.jpg)
(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t202/dantolin/naranjo%20II/IMG_0996.jpg)
Thanks for looking.

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow(finishes fics)
Post by: okiecountryboy on May 27, 2010, 03:56:11 pm

Absolutely beautiful.
Personally I would like to have seen a video on scraping around those humps, bumps,and knots ;D ;D ;D.
Couldn't have been easy!
Job well done...

Ron

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow(finishes fics)
Post by: Josh on May 27, 2010, 03:59:41 pm

...Finished out nice!  You've made one heck of a bow there man!   :)

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow(finishes fics)
Post by: dantolin on May 27, 2010, 04:02:13 pm

Thanks Ron, yes it was funny, hahaha!
And thank you again,Josh.

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow(finishes pics)
Post by: AncientArcher76 on May 27, 2010, 04:45:52 pm

Good to see a nice character bow absolutly beautiful!  Thanks for sharing!

Russ

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow(finishes pics)
Post by: dantolin on May 27, 2010, 04:50:09 pm

Thank you Russ.
And give all that ash logs a nice transformation!!

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow(finishes pics)
Post by: Asiertxu on May 27, 2010, 07:00:37 pm

That bow finished up FANTASTICLY David!!
I´d like to see it personally in Errenteria (Basque Country) this year (July) if it is possible!! ;)...
Cheers mate!
Asier.

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow(finishes pics)
Post by: dantolin on May 28, 2010, 09:56:32 am

Thank you Scott and Asier.
Yes, I'd like to go to Errenteria Asier. We'll talk!

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow(finishes pics)
Post by: OldBow on May 28, 2010, 03:30:31 pm

Ah, a great primitive bow and bookmarked for May Self BOM, too.

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow(finishes pics)
Post by: HatchA on May 28, 2010, 10:17:10 pm

Simply beautiful...beautifully simple.

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow(finishes pics)
Post by: dantolin on May 30, 2010, 06:42:27 pm

Thank you very much HatchA and oldBow.

Two more pics (my friebd Kiko shooting) made this weekend:

(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t202/dantolin/naranjo%20II/IMG_1006.jpg)(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t202/dantolin/naranjo%20II/IMG_1007.jpg)

I've also recorded some videos of how it shoots.

My friend Kiko shooting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx7VTJ33AJw
Me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwlrOhwb_3c
Thanks again to all,
David

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow(updated with pics and videos 30-5)
Post by: Lombard on May 30, 2010, 08:25:50 pm

Just watched the video. I was wondering if the bow is really that quiet, or if the mic just didn't pick up the sound?

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow(updated with pics and videos 30-5)
Post by: dantolin on May 31, 2010, 04:13:01 am

It's quiet, yes.
I think that straight selfbows are really quiet...recurves are other thing.

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow(updated with pics and videos 30-5)
Post by: Parnell on June 01, 2010, 10:34:47 am

That bow turned out VERY nicely.  Great job.  Those bitter oranges make for one of the greatest pork marinades I've tried.  From what I understand it's a very Cuban thing, also.

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow(updated with pics and videos 30-5)
Post by: Pappy on June 01, 2010, 12:12:31 pm

Very nice bow,looks great in all aspects. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow(updated with pics and videos 30-5)
Post by: Hillbilly on June 01, 2010, 01:38:13 pm

Excellent looking bow. And judging from the video, it's very, very steep where you live. ;D

Title: Re: Bitter orange bow(updated with pics and videos 30-5)
Post by: dantolin on June 01, 2010, 04:32:21 pm

Thanks for the compliments Parnell, Pappy and Hillbilly.
Parnell, I think that one can find this wood at any place where ancient spanish people emigrate (there were the north africans in the eight century (our territory became a caliphat) who planted it in the spanish peninsula).
Hillbilly, I live about one hour from that country side. But it's a very nie place, full of tress and eagles. I live in the city of Valencia.
Thanks again,
David