Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Mark Anderson on August 15, 2011, 07:59:15 pm
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Well this one has a story to it. Early this spring a buddy of mine dropped by and said he found some osage on his old family place that we could cut, so I grabbed the saw and some wedges and hopped in his truck. We found a bunch. The last tree I was cutting had a branch that swooped down lower than I did and stuck a thorn right in the top of my head. I bled more than I had since that one time I tried to build a cannon and got crazy grinding the weld down.....well that can wait for another time. So anyway the tree has a history now of getting things bloody hence the name "Bloodletter".
Stats are 67" ntn slightly cut in shelf built up with some leather. 53# @28" 6 coats of laquer (i know some don't like laquer but it seems to work well for me) Buckskin handle wrap in a style I've been experimenting with. Tips are mahoganny (thought it was cherry till I started rasping it) and antler.
Hope you enjoy.
Mark
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ok having a hard time getting the pictures to upload.
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My wife has a new camera and wanted me to post some of these.
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Very handsome, I like the nocks and that grip/fade transition looks stylish in that down the arrow shot.
Sweet tiller, I bet itat 53# it punches out those arrows.
Nice pics.
Del
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sweet bow commadore, nice tiller, Bub
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1st,2nd...or 999th Osage bow,that's a nice yeller stick. :)
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Fine job!
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Excellent work...hard to beat a stick of Osage ain't it >:D
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That's a very sleek looking bow. I bet is is very smooth at 67", too.
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That's a great looking bow. I like the name that you chose too :)
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thats a great looking bow and an awesome name to go along with it :) very cool, thanks for sharing.
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Beautiful. Yes, I love that yellar wood. Tiller looks right on.You did it proud. Danny
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Looking good...WARNING that yeller wood is as addictive as crack ;) :-X
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Beautiful work,mighty fine looking bow. :) :)
Pappy
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That thing has BOM written all over it! Wonderful job! I especially like the tiller and the tips are great! Way to go man!! ;D ;D ;D
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Very nice and clean work. I would be wary of the crack in the last picture just to the right of the writing. Have you saturated it with superglue? I would do that, and then wrap the area with silk thread set in glue. But again, very nice looking weapon!
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Super nice Mark really like the tips and the string grooves you made.
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Very nice bow. Good photos too, I liked the "down the arrow" shot, it makes me feel like I'm sitting on the back of the arrow ready to go on a wild ride! Your handle looks really nice as well.
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Thank you for all the comments guys. 4est, the crack looks much worse than it really is, it is just a bit that lifted while I was using steel wool on the transition to the fades. I almost removed the bit completely but decided to leave it. The pictures were taken before the last few coats of laquer were applied and I did glue it down before I finished it.
Thanks again all. And Del it does spit the arrows, and fast. I want to see if my buddy will shoot it through a chrono sometime, I'm guessing it might be in the high 160's fps but I could be way off.
Mark
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you did a awesome job on this bow, I hope my first turns out like this, got a good story behind it to boot, thanks for sharing..
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Very nice work.
The tiller looks great on that bow.