Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: PEARL DRUMS on March 16, 2014, 12:09:30 pm
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This is from a buckthorm stave Cody gave me at pappys last year. I got to the pile a few days too late... :o I was eyeballing it wondering where and how I was going to get it fairly symmetrical and even. As I stared I noticed it would line up at the handle as is. So I said heck with it and left it completely as split by Cody, including the stubby stick poking out the upper limb. I added Ipe tips as the sapwood is quite soft on buckthorn. That's it! Its 63" long and pulls 51-53# @ 27". Believe it or not, it shoots pretty hard and feels "normal" in my bow hand and draw hand. I wouldn't know one limb was R/D and the other D. Im guessing it took about 1.5" set max. But its hard to say for sure due to the wonky shape. I built this bow yesterday for the most part. I used super glue for the overlays and finished it with two coats of shellac and three coats of paste wax. Good enough for a summer plinker, I wont hunt with it.
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There ya go again Chris. Making me feel bad about my bows. Someday I'll learn to polish my turds.
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Nice natural stick Pearly. Looks like a pencil sticking out of the limb.
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That's awesome. Especially for doing it in a day.
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That's a pretty cool bow there pearly. I like the little stick you left. Looks like a sweet stumper :)
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cool beans drummer boy
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You can hang your hat on that one for sure. ;) Nice bow Pearlie.
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Real nice plinker Chris, gotta love that buckthorn. Built in a day for the most part huh, you make me sick man. >:D
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Thanks fellers! I glued the tips and half shaped them Friday night while DQ was over working his "gluey". Then I finished floor tillering, tillering and sealing Saturday morning/afternoon. Buckthorn is tied dead even with yew in my prettiest self bow wood categories. It just lights right up on its own after a good steel woolin', and the fleshy heartwood is flat gorgeous. Id like to get a stick suitable to make a skin backed static......Mmmmmmmm.....yummy.
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That's a really nice character stick Mr Drums! Well done. You should go grouse hunting with it, you'll have somewhere to hang the dead ones on the way home!
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Pretty nice, Chris..
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Dude, looks like you didnt miss anything by getting over to that buckthorn pile a day late. Nicely done. 8)
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Nice
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That is a beauty! Jawge
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Real nice Chris! I got a couple staves last year from Cody, still haven't worked em yet. After seeing this I might just get started on one :) That's an all around beauty!!
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Nice looking bow .... Chris
DBar
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Nice bow PD. I love the contrast between the ipe and the sapwood. Looks great. I still haven't tried buckthorn yet. It looks like interesting bow wood.
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Cool Buddy!!! Makes me wanna get after one of my supernasty buckthorns I got..makes that one look pretty clean...tis a pretty finished wood indeed :)
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Very nice Mr. Pearlie.
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How wide and thick are the limbs at the transition to the non bending tips and around that knot? Just trying to get an idea about my current project. Thanks Chris, Doobs
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Very nice classy bow there Pearly.
Cipriano
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Nice - I like it. Wish we had some buckthorn around here.
Mitch
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Hey................... that's not Osage! Nice job on a challenging stave!
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Handle treatment perfect combo w/ classy character. Niceee!
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Nice bow, Pearlie boy. :)
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Looks like a pretty high degree of difficulty with the wonky shape. Nice job on it.
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How wide and thick are the limbs at the transition to the non bending tips and around that knot? Just trying to get an idea about my current project. Thanks Chris, Doobs
I don't measure poo doob's, tape measures are for guys like DQ! The area around the knot has a total healthy wood width that equals the limb width before and after the knot. You dig?
As far as thickness goes, its irrelevant as each stave is different, just tiller it out. I left 6" stiff on my straight limb and 7-8" stiff on my R/D limb. Looking closer, I think I could have got a wee bit more upper limb movement right in the middle, but it works.
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Thanks again for all the comments fellers, I appreciate your looking.
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Hmm. I've got a Cody buckthorn stave as well. You sure made that one look nice.
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Thats my kind of stick . If its got natural cool then let it stay , and thats got the cool goin on.
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Wow PD,
You got a good dew on that cockeyed stick. Love the way it all comes together in the FD and brace pix. Good on ya.. Sorry I posted this same comment on one of your post. Chuck
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sweet nice work....butttt where's that sweet buckthorn bow you had under your bench? Don't tell me scrapped it?! :'(
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I burnt it Drew, didn't like its appearance or performance, and knew I wouldn't want it around. So..........up in flames it goes!
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oooooooh i like that one alot, and its in my specs too :D
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Don't let Pearly scam you folks , even a worthless old nut can make a bow out of Buckthorn in a day .
After the last couple of Buckthorn bows posted up I think Cody's price for a stave is going to go way up .
Fun stuff ain't it Pearly !
Fun to let them go as is also
Good job
Guy
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Speakin' of said bow, Mr Nut. Where are the pics? You can send them to me and Ill edit and post them if you want me to. You'll be a STAR!
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Ain't happening
That's the squirrely part of this old nut!
See ya at Marshall
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How wide and thick are the limbs at the transition to the non bending tips and around that knot? Just trying to get an idea about my current project. Thanks Chris, Doobs
I don't measure poo doob's, tape measures are for guys like DQ! The area around the knot has a total healthy wood width that equals the limb width before and after the knot. You dig?
As far as thickness goes, its irrelevant as each stave is different, just tiller it out. I left 6" stiff on my straight limb and 7-8" stiff on my R/D limb. Looking closer, I think I could have got a wee bit more upper limb movement right in the middle, but it works.
OK, thanks man. l'll just jump into it and get it the best I can ;)
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Beautiful bow Chris on a very challenging stave. Nice job. :)
Pappy
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dang o dang man! love em when they look like stix
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Nice job, that buckthorn is some cool stuff. That one turned out nice.
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Sometimes the last pickins make the coolest bows! Beautiful bow
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Boy I missed this one. Great job Pearl!
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I gotta get on one of those pieces of buckthorn I got last year, soon. You did a great job Pearlie.