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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: autologus on February 08, 2013, 04:00:11 pm

Title: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow w/full draw
Post by: autologus on February 08, 2013, 04:00:11 pm: Here is a little Ash wheel barrow handle ambush bow I finished up a couple of months ago and just haven't gotten around to posting. I do not have a full draw pic yet but will try to get my photographer (aka wife) to cooperate. It is 57" ntn, 1 1/16 wide at the handle tapering to 5/8 at the tips, it draws 40# @28" and has about 1/4" of set. It is a smooth bow and shoots really nice, it is extremely light in the hand. After looking at the full draw pic, it looks a little stiff outside the paint on the top limb. I must have not noticed that when tillering, I don't know how I did that. I guess I am going to have to take a picture and look at it when tillering.

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Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: lesken2011 on February 08, 2013, 04:01:56 pm: Nice! I like the color combo, too!!
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: Squirrelslayer on February 08, 2013, 04:05:20 pm: great bow think you could do a buildalong and maybe we could see a full draw pic? SS
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: autologus on February 08, 2013, 04:07:25 pm: I'm going to get my wife to take a full draw pic tonight and ill add it. I took the pictures yesterday and she was not available to take the full draw pic.

Grady
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on February 08, 2013, 04:11:50 pm: Nice work Grady. The braced pic tells me the fd pic will be a sweet one. Nice attention to detail on the finish work to.
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: danny f on February 08, 2013, 04:33:20 pm: that looks great. i have had my eye on a long ash scraper handle at work with dead straight grain that keeps screaming bow at me. i think it might find its self in the back of my car one day after seeing this bow. >:D
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: autologus on February 08, 2013, 04:36:40 pm: Technically that is only half a handle, I still have the other half to make another bow from.

Grady
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: Pat B on February 08, 2013, 04:53:22 pm: Very nice Cayuga style bow, Grady. A few years ago some of us did a Community bow and we did a Cayuga style but on ours the red tips were covered with coral snake skins.
You did a nice job on this one and I'm looking forward to the full draw pic.
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: Ozzy on February 08, 2013, 04:57:22 pm: Very nice work on that one ;D ;D
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: JonW on February 08, 2013, 04:57:30 pm: Nice bow Grady. I like the paint. Where are you at in Ar?
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: Sidewinder on February 08, 2013, 05:01:50 pm: Great little bow for sure. Color scheme is cool too. Only on PA would you see someone take a perfectly good ash handle and make a bow of it. Danny
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: autologus on February 08, 2013, 05:02:12 pm: I live in Malvern south of Benton off I-30. Its sort of South Central Arkansas.

Grady
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: Traxx on February 08, 2013, 05:12:13 pm: Looks good.Looking forward to the FD pics.
Bout how thick,did it end up being,at the handle?
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: Badly Bent on February 08, 2013, 05:15:03 pm: Real nice bow. I love that style of bow and you did a great job on that one.

Greg
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: coaster500 on February 08, 2013, 05:41:42 pm: Now that's American ingenuity!!!

That is a cool shooter!!!!!
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: ionicmuffin on February 08, 2013, 05:59:24 pm: looks very nice!
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: autologus on February 08, 2013, 06:02:17 pm: Quote from: Traxx on February 08, 2013, 05:12:13 pm
Looks good.Looking forward to the FD pics.
Bout how thick,did it end up being,at the handle?

Ill get those measurements tonight and include them with the full draw pic.

Grady
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: Axel on February 08, 2013, 06:50:19 pm: What is an ambush bow?
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: randman on February 08, 2013, 07:08:33 pm: I have an ash wheelbarrow handle with perfectly straight grain that I have planned on making 2 similar bows from. Maybe one will be a scallop edged bow. Thanks for the great inspiration. Looks beautiful. Everybody, y'all be sure to check out the wheelbarrow handles when you're lookin for bow wood at Lowes.
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: Squirrelslayer on February 08, 2013, 07:32:23 pm: i forgot to ask did you splice two handles together if so how? SS
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: UserNameTaken on February 08, 2013, 07:34:03 pm: At 57" ntn & only 1 1/16" wide, it amazes me that you got 40 lbs out of it without it breaking or taking extreme set. It certainly inspires the hell out of me.

Is that basically a pyramid taper out of the handle?
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: Roy on February 08, 2013, 07:38:11 pm: Very nice.
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow w/full draw
Post by: autologus on February 08, 2013, 10:01:23 pm: Thanks for all the kind comments.

SS - it is just a wheel barrow handle that I split in half with my band saw and made the bow from one split.
UNT - it is basically a pyramid taper just that there is no handle narrowing.

Grady
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow w/full draw
Post by: rps3 on February 08, 2013, 11:25:30 pm: Great job on that.
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow w/full draw
Post by: burn em up chuck on February 09, 2013, 10:03:54 am: very cool, i have heard of(tbb)doing that but never saw one completed. very nice.

chuck
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow
Post by: Dictionary on February 09, 2013, 10:14:45 am: Quote from: Axel on February 08, 2013, 06:50:19 pm
What is an ambush bow?

I have been wondering the same thing
Title: Re: Wheel Barrow Handle Ambush bow w/full draw
Post by: autologus on February 09, 2013, 11:47:17 am: I believe an ambush bow would be one that you can easily manage in cover. Something fairly short and maneuverable.

Grady