Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: David_Daugherty on August 04, 2013, 10:47:20 pm
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This is pics on the bow I completed this weekend. 72" TTT, 50# @ 29", Cherry wood. I left a couple of sap wood growth rings for the back of the bow. Stained the belly but not the sap wood. I'm not an artist but had fun attempting to apply art work to the limbs. Stain color is cabernet and finished with shellac. She shoots lefty as I'm wrong handed ???. Hope you enjoy the pics :)
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Very nice looking bow.
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Beautiful bow and nice job on tiller as well.
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Very pretty bow! And yes, nice job on the tiller also. Did you use just a clear stain on the belly or a cherry stain to add more color?
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Elegant and Clean lines on that one,i like it!
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Nice bend on that one. Looks like you're "right" handed to me!! ::)
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Lefty - its a cabernet wood stain by rustoleum. I thought that clor stain would look nice on the Cherry wood. Thanks for all the comments. Its nice to get feedback from fellow bowyers.
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The tiller looks really good and I love the stain job, the contrast looks great. Excellent choice in color on that one.
Grady
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Nice bow Dave.Bet she pulls smooth all the way.Nice even distribution layer of sapwood on that one.I was on a 3D shoot at northern central Iowa last weekend and saw some huge 2' across thick cherries 40' tall while on the walk.I made a cherry bow a while back and was confused a little as to what kind of cherry it was[choke cherry or black cherry?].Well I know for sure mine is a black cherry now.This was the bark on mine and from an 8" tree.The heartwood on that bow turned dark brown after spar varnish was applied.No stain.
I have another roughed out future cherry bow [all heartwood]drying in the house and the heartwood is a little lighter than the previous one and from a different tree.More pinkish red.You brought out the contrast on yours real good with your stain.Nice picture of before and after stain on your belly tip picture.I plan on puttin a rawhide backing on this next one.It'll be 61.5" NTN.
I think cherry is an excellent bow wood.
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the sappwood kinda looks like rawhide
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Yes but if you look close you can see a little pin knot on the back on one of the pictures.
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This is the belly heartwood of my previous bow no stain just spar varnish.
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Beadman thats a very nice looking bow that you made as well. I really enjoyed working the cherry into a bow. It was smooth and very easy to re.move the shavings. I hope I can find some more cherry around. We don't have much of it here in lower Alabama. So far I have worked osage, hickory and cherry. I like the toughness of the osage as the cherry and hickory both had more set after they were shot in. But i found the cherry was easier to shave down in the tillering process.
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That's sweet love seeing a different wood type like cherry I'd like to try my hands at it
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Very nice. Cherry is a favourite of mine too, lovely wood.
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Awesome! I am gonna have to give cherry a try. Fine looking bow.
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To me I like to call it red cedars' big brother.Compression strong but more brittle and tension weak.You put plenty of length on yours to make it work.If the back is crowned it calls for a shallow D belly even on a flat bow I think.It seems to be a bit denser than red cedar but work much the same as far as taking shavings off it.More soap woodish kinda.No real aggessive files needed or should'nt be anyway unless your just roughing it out.Cabinet scraper and sand paper to get it to tiller out.Way different than doing an osage.A rawhide backing on shorter bows is a safer bet to survive.I like it too because the limbs are so light and spunky.It's high on my list at the moment until........well I'm working a winged elm now and that stuff to me is as dense as my hickory with the same qualitys.Got it at the classic from someone from south carolina[Local wood I think there] and I can't remember his name.I'd like to get some more of it myself.Looks like a flat belly heat treatment is on the agenda.
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Nice bow.
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Beadman- Absolutely correct on the density of the wood. I tillered this one with a paint scraper!! Took off the shavings smooth and not too aggressive. Alabama creek drew her back the other day and made the comment "she's limby". As you draw her back it feels like the limbs are spring loaded. Very nice feel to it. I will upload some more pics maybe tomorrow to show how much set she took on unbraced after being shot in.
If anyone is going to work Cherry into a bow - be prepared to back off of the aggressive tools ;D
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Thanks for the tips!!! got one in the works myself....very nice job on that one ;)
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Looks like a shooter to me. :)
Pappy
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Looks great! How wide are the limbs? I've got a couple 4 ft sections of cherry that I might splice together to make something like this.
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Christian - the handle is 1" width, at the fades it is 1 1/4", midlimb is 2 1/4", and at the nocks it measures 3/4". Because the limbs are pretty long I began tapering to to notches at 8" from the tip. I hope this helps.
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Pic added to show not much string follow with this cherry. It did take on about 1" of set. So overall very pleased with the way this one turned out.
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You did a great job teaching that stick to bend. The tiller looks great. Nice 8)