Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Poggins on October 19, 2014, 08:00:35 pm
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This is my first recurve that I've tried , been working on it for a while off and on , I'm building this one for my supervisor at work , he has been bringing me rattle snakes and giving them to me so I built this bow for him so maybe the snakes will keep comming .
I've been using a set of bathroom scales to check the weight and according to them it's 54# at 29" , when we measured his draw length it was 28" and he wanted it to pull around 50# .
Right at 60" TTT , I have some more finish work to do when the glue dries and I'll post some more pics , I had my brother shoot it for me and it shoots quietly and no hand shock , he doesn't shoot a bow but after he figured the anchor point out he was hitting where he was looking .
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Careful you dont lose it in the grass!
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I just hope that when he takes it on one of his hunting trips that he doesn't lay it on the ground and one of his hunting buddies use a shotgun on it .
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Looks cool! We need brace and full draw!
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Glue needs to dry and I want to get it sealed up before I put the string back on and get wax on it , I'll post pics as soon as I get it done .
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The hooks on the end look like a rattler holding the tip of his tail up, good job on that. I'll be checking back for full draw 8)
Don
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Looks good,skins turned out great. :)
Pappy
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That looks great. Love the skins, how many rattlers you got on there? What kind of wood are you using?
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Very cool recurve, Poggins. Gotta love those "coon tail" hooks.
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Thanks , it's osage , when I started it took some heat and clamps to get it staight .
String lays just off center of the handle but there is no twisting when it is drawn , I can flip the bow over and shoot it right handed , I tryed left handed but broke one arrow and chaced the other arrow down a few times before taking it to my brother to shoot.
He has brought me over a dozen rattlers so far , there are a couple pigmy rattlers also , he had showed me some pics of the rattlers they killed a couple years ago and I asked if he would throw them in an old ice chest with ice and bring them back for me, he freezes them when him and his hunting buddies get them , they also know a guy that is a snake wrangler and swapped some reloaded amo for some skins , some of them are well over 60" long .
Before I started building bows I'd see copper heads every where , now I don't see them as often , I have friends and family that call me or bring snakes to me when they get them , mostly black snakes and usually with a few large bulges in them ( nobody likes a chicken theif).
The staves I've been working with lately are the ones I offer for $20 and nobody buys them , this is one of those staves , I have a bunch of staves for billets and I plan on sinking some of them in my pond , I saw another set of billets that came out after 10-15 year soak and love the way they look , but they do smell like a cow pile when you work on them .
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he doesn't shoot a bow but...
Looks like you changed that :) Nice work and very cool skins!
John D.
Boise
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Looking great…….. and even looks like the snake still has the rattles on
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I can hear the rattles - looks good.
Wait for the F/D
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Ok here are some more pics , sorry about not having a full draw with someone holding it I didn't have anyone around .
The first is braced , the second is at 26" ( out of notches on my tillering board) and the third is after unbracing it .
I sat it out I. The sun to warm up and help the glue dry today , TBIII doesn't like to dry fast when it's cold .
I wanted to see what it looked like drawn with the skins on so I had to do it to satisfy my own curiosity .
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That's a good lookin bow man. I like how you wrapped the skins down and around
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Sweeeet
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+1 IdahoMatt the skins all the way around are awesome, nice job dealing with that kink too
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I like the skins. I think that there is a hinge at the right fade, it's bending way to much right there. Take it or leave it. :)
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There is a spot just off the fade that humps up and twists a little , I'll get a better pic of that spot , unbraced it didn't set the same on the tillering stick so it doesn't show up good .
The skins go down the sides but the belly is uncovered , used two skins that matched pretty close .
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Diggin it...always liked the look of the skins wrapping the sides of the bow!
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Tryed to get better pics of the handle area unbraced , hope it show what I was working with .
Hate to make any changes to the bow because it shoots good , it's quiet , and no hand shock .
The left limb has a downward dip and the right limb has bump with a little twist to it , hard to show it good without looking at it in person .
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Looking good. You did a fine job with the tiller
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Thanks Mark , thought it shot too good to have problems .
Showed pics of the bow to Dave after I put the skins on , he thought the bow looked great before the skins , now he's really exited about it , showed the pics of the bow in the grass to the other guys at work without telling them what it was , took a minute before one noticed that the snake had two tails .
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We'll the pics help, and the masters have spoken. Take their advice. I'll stop posting and get back to bow building.
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Ok , got the money shots today .
Stopped at my brothers and got him to snap a pic o me drawing the bow then I got a couple of him drawing the bow , I'm in the hivis shirt and shooting it right handed flipped over with the top limb down , you can see in the pic the whoooptydoo in the limb above my hand , the other pics are of my brother shooting it left handed with the top limb up , the whoooptydoo doesn't show up as bad from the other side . A whoooptydoo is what Ralph calls those spots on bows that have a bump and twist to them , he was one if the first ones to teach me how to build bows .
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Nice work :)
Your helper is enthralled by it!
Del
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Nice work on it. Love the skins.
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The little helper is my niece , we are trying to teach her how to shoot a bow , we are gaining on it a little if she will slow down and pay a little closer attention , she is getting better .