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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Lombard on September 20, 2010, 01:02:27 pm

Title: About time
Post by: Lombard on September 20, 2010, 01:02:27 pm

White Oak, sixty two inches NTN, forty pounds at twenty eight, gift bow for a friend. Left the outer limbs a little heavier than normal, as my ham handed friend will no doubt use this as a bow/walking stick ;), so it has a slight bump in the hand when shooting.

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Title: Re: About time
Post by: Lombard on September 20, 2010, 01:12:51 pm

Tiller isn't perfect, but as close as I could get on this one, without making it to light.

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Post by: n2huntn on September 20, 2010, 01:13:58 pm

Tiller looks good and the color is great. Nice job.
N2

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Post by: swamp yeti on September 20, 2010, 01:31:47 pm

Awesome looking bow

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Post by: RidgeRunner on September 20, 2010, 01:44:51 pm

Nice bow.
White Oak board or stave??

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Post by: Josh on September 20, 2010, 01:56:21 pm

Wow nice bow Dave, tiller is excellent and really love the finish and dye job.  Got it bookmarked for September BOM too.  :)

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Post by: Del the cat on September 20, 2010, 02:05:04 pm

Nice bow. A bow does make a handy stick as I've found over the last few days, I ricked my back but I've done a bit of work on my latest (for therapeutic reasons you understand O:)) the bow has been handy to help me up out of the chair...
It took me 3 days to let in an arrow plate!
Much better now and I've just put the leather grip on, I'll post some pics soon.
Del

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Post by: Steve Milbocker on September 20, 2010, 03:01:46 pm

Nice bow, I too really like the dye job. What did you use?

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Post by: HoBow on September 20, 2010, 04:56:20 pm

Nice bow!  Tiller looks good and the dye job is amazing.

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Post by: profsaffel on September 20, 2010, 05:08:49 pm

Love the colors and the tiller is fine.

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Post by: ken75 on September 20, 2010, 05:20:56 pm

very nicely done you did that W oak proud !!

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Post by: Lombard on September 20, 2010, 06:25:06 pm

Thank you for the compliments Gentlemen.

Steve, I use simple Ritt Dye. Worked it in solid bands, and then blended all the bands together light color into dark color.

Del, looking forward to the pics. Good luck with your recuperation.

Ridge Runner, this one started it's life as a stave. Small diameter, it was halved, and only this piece was suitable to use.

I've glued on the floppy rest, sewed on the leather grip, and added Pom Pom silencers. The poms are the same size, but for some reason the one on the left looks smaller. I think it is just blending into the background. They were made from a multi colored wool yarn my wife had for one of her projects.

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Post by: hillbilly61 on September 20, 2010, 09:58:21 pm

 Good tiller. Nice blends... Very nice job!!!  What did you use to glue the rest on with?

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Post by: Lombard on September 20, 2010, 11:01:15 pm

Thanks Mark. I used Weldwood contact cement.

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Post by: straightarrow on September 20, 2010, 11:52:54 pm

Very nice dye job....I really like it. Tiller looks good to me. You're good to your friend. He/she will like it.

Jon

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Post by: Pappy on September 21, 2010, 06:10:41 am

Sweet looking bow,very well done. :)
   Pappy

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Post by: Scowler on September 21, 2010, 08:55:00 am

Tiller looks good to me.  Very pretty bow.

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Post by: hammertime on September 21, 2010, 09:03:54 am

WOW that sure is a sweet lookin bow! tiller looks good to me,grip and dye job also,very well done-Hammertime

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Post by: George Tsoukalas on September 21, 2010, 08:04:50 pm

Very nice. I like the dye work too. Jawge

Title: Re: About time
Post by: Lombard on September 22, 2010, 07:33:21 pm

Thank you all for the kind words and encouragement.

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Post by: denny on September 23, 2010, 02:03:33 am

 very nice bow,Sir. As been said beautiful color etc. Denny

Title: Re: About time
Post by: Lombard on September 24, 2010, 09:45:51 am

Thanks Denny. It was a fun bow to make. My friend was really pleased when I handed it to him in SC on Tuesday. He can shoot with his sons now, as they already had stick bows.

Title: Re: About time
Post by: Hrothgar on September 24, 2010, 10:52:23 am

Your friend should be proud of that one. I really like the grip. Is that linen backing?

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Post by: Lombard on September 24, 2010, 09:09:41 pm

Yes Hrothgar, that is in fact a linen backing, applied with TB3. It was a marginal stave to begin with. It had several pin knots, and being from a fairly small tree to begin with, I decrowned it, and added the linen backing.