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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: cornus on October 17, 2012, 05:57:59 am

Title: Hazel flatbow 50@28
Post by: cornus on October 17, 2012, 05:57:59 am

I still have one :)

lenght 66´´ntn
limb 48 mm, 10 mm dogwood tip
mass 500 g.

https://picasaweb.google.com/102724506646909761387/16Rijna2012Hazel5028?authuser=0&feat=directlink

Title: Re: Hazel flatbow 50@28
Post by: dmenzies1950 on October 17, 2012, 02:18:24 pm

Nice job! That's a deer slayer for sure! Beautiful bow!             Dale

Title: Re: Hazel flatbow 50@28
Post by: VicNova on October 17, 2012, 10:33:05 pm

Aw dude, that has super smooth lines! I bet that shoots great huh?

Title: Re: Hazel flatbow 50@28
Post by: Arrowind on October 17, 2012, 10:57:40 pm

Nice bow.  Good job.

Title: Re: Hazel flatbow 50@28
Post by: coaster500 on October 17, 2012, 11:06:24 pm

Very nice !!!

Title: Re: Hazel flatbow 50@28
Post by: Zion on October 18, 2012, 01:37:15 am

Nice, clean bow. Looks great, good job!

Title: Re: Hazel flatbow 50@28
Post by: Holten101 on October 18, 2012, 03:12:36 am

This bow deserves a bump to be sure;-). Hazle is tricky wood in my experience....wicked shooters when excecuted right....but darn hard to get right (thinking crysals here). I really appreciates this bow:-).

I hate to love Hazel:-(

Cheers

Title: Re: Hazel flatbow 50@28
Post by: ionicmuffin on October 18, 2012, 03:14:49 am

Looks great! im not that far up yet in my skills, hope to be there in a few years. maybe more.

Title: Re: Hazel flatbow 50@28
Post by: cornus on October 18, 2012, 03:34:29 am

Our European hazel is a great bow wood for flatbows. Very flexible and elastic. No problem with frets.
I have a question on yellow locust (Gleditsia triacanthos)
What is bow wood? Comparison of black locust and mulberry.

Title: Re: Hazel flatbow 50@28
Post by: Holten101 on October 18, 2012, 03:43:11 am

Quote from: cornus on October 18, 2012, 03:34:29 am

Our European hazel is a great bow wood for flatbows. Very flexible and elastic. No problem with frets.

I sooo beg to differ;-). Im from Denmark and have made bows from most woods available to me (elm, ash, plum, oak, rowan, cherry, blackthorn, hawthorn, yew and ofc. hazle)....Hazle has been the most troublesome with regards to fretting, by a margin. BUT also yielded my fastest shooters.

I prefer to think it a question of  lack of skill and experience....hence my appreciation of guys like you who can pull it of:-)

Cheers

Title: Re: Hazel flatbow 50@28
Post by: nathan elliot on October 18, 2012, 03:47:25 am

Very nice bow! And like Holten I have had nothing but bother with hazel, from Scotland and Germany, frets, frets, frets. Great to see it does work though!

Title: Re: Hazel flatbow 50@28
Post by: cornus on October 18, 2012, 03:50:52 am

I do not use hazel small shoots, good wood is a trunk of large diameter. ;)