Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: ozark caveman on February 03, 2008, 02:29:16 am
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Here's my latest! 62" Dogwood 60# at 28" ;D
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I'm not completely finished yet.
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She looks good. Tell me about working dogwood(Cornus florida I presume). I have a nice straight 5" pole I cut a few months ago and split a month after I cut it. Pat
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I love working Dogwood! It's one of my favorite woods. It's really tuff like hickory.
Here is another dogwood I made thats 48" long.
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Cool looking bow the dogleg in the bottom limb makes it tough to judge the tiller
but looks like it could bend a bit more between the fadeaand the dog leg. Still well done.
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Looks nice....are you planning on taking some of the Bend out with some Heat?? Or are you going to leave it for Character?? I am with Dana here....looks a Little stiff from Mid Limb to the Tip on that bottom limb........but I would rather have that than a Whippy Bow....so go slow....
here is one a Guy sent Me to finissh for Him.....do you think the Tiller is a little off....LMAO!!!
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Looks like you did a pretty good job trying to work with that kink- that limb should bend a little more probably, but it's hard to judge tiller when you've got a hellacious whoopiedoo like that to work around. The littl'un looks good. I've got a piece of dogwood that Pat gave me drying in the shed, I'm looking forward to attacking it.
Yankee, I think you could probably get that bow bending just a tiny bit more out of the fades-maybe a few scrapes between fade and midlimb? ;D ;D :o ;D
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Yep, good looking bow. I made an Osage bow like that, it had a straight top limb, but the bottom limb had a dog leg in about the same area. :)
Sean
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I love working with dogwood, all the ones Ihave had were just loaded with character and knots. makes great bows. Steve
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Hey Ozark!!
So you like to work with Dogwood??
I also like it!!...REALLY like Dogwood "Cornus Sanguinea"... :) 8)...
What species of Dogwood are you talking about mate??
BTW: Really nice dogwood bows!!
Cheers...
Asier.
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Shows what I know, for some reason when I think of dogwood I think soft wood, you bow looks super, the dip in the limb is well incorporated in the design, seems like you continue an arc even with the offset.
VB
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VB, our dogwood (C. florida) is an extremly hard, dense wood, and very impact-resistant.
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Great to find out that dogwood makes good bows, I have been wondering for some time if it would, and have been collecting sapling size stave's to season with a hope of making an English longbow. I not sure how to dry this particular timber, so I have some in my workshop, for a slow dry and some in the house, all with the bark on.
I read in the bb1 that it is denser than osage?
Peter (UK)
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Good looking bow! Dogwood, eh? Hhmnmn...
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Got your neat dogwood stick bow with the dogleg ;) all bookmarked for Feb Self Bow of the Month. Nice and primitive - we like these.
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Good to see dogwood performing well, I've got a couple of staves seasoning in my basement. ;)
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Well done. My first successful bow was made with dogwood and it's still shootin well. My bow had an almost exact upper limb as yours.
Recently I tryed making a celt handle with dogwood, primitively, and had to resort to tools. I would be very impressed if someone could make a primitive tools bow out of dogwood. Dang that stuff is hard ;D
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Yankee, I think you could probably get that bow bending just a tiny bit more out of the fades-maybe a few scrapes between fade and midlimb? ;D ;D :o ;D
Ya Think!!!!! I cant beleive I even took on this Challenge.....this should be turned into Firewood....and I should just make Him another Bow....and say ....here you go ....I fixed it!!!
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Got your neat dogwood stick bow with the dogleg ;) all bookmarked for Feb Self Bow of the Month. Nice and primitive - we like these.
Thank You!
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Hey Ozark!!
So you like to work with Dogwood??
I also like it!!...REALLY like Dogwood "Cornus Sanguinea"... :) 8)...
What species of Dogwood are you talking about mate??
BTW: Really nice dogwood bows!!
Cheers...
Asier.
Ok. It seems that people are saying that there are 2 different dogwoods. I live in the Ozarks and we have what is called flowering dogwood. It has pretty white flowers in the spring that cover the Ozark Mountains in white. This Tree does not grow tall. 20' to 25" at most. It is very hard and dense. I've read somewhere that it's used for wooden malletts because of how hard it is. I also read that Native Americans used it as their primary bow wood if it was available. I think it's as tuff as hickory.
As you can see the little dogwood is bending a lot. I gave this bow away a long time ago but it was a serious performer.