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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Marc St Louis on October 09, 2015, 09:16:16 pm

Title: Bamboo backed Rosewood
Post by: Marc St Louis on October 09, 2015, 09:16:16 pm

I made this bow about 3 years ago as my hunting bow.  It's a Bamboo backed Rosewood RD with Rat Snake skins.  The bow is 63" long overall and the limbs are 1 1/8" wide tapering to 1/4" nocks, it's tillered to 28" where it pulls just under 55#.  I never chronoed the bow but it does shoot pretty fast, probably around 180 fps with 10 GPP arrows.  It turned out that I hardly had any time to go hunting that year so the bow saw little use  :(.  Here's some pics

(https://i.imgur.com/EEqqZBJ.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/1HkcPxI.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/OzhEXAZ.jpg)

Title: Re: Bamboo backed Rosewood
Post by: Drewster on October 09, 2015, 09:27:20 pm

That's a dandy of a bow.  Bet she's a smooth shooter too.  Very nice Marc.

Title: Re: Bamboo backed Rosewood
Post by: bowandarrow473 on October 09, 2015, 09:37:39 pm

Beautiful as always!!!

Title: Re: Bamboo backed Rosewood
Post by: David_Daugherty on October 09, 2015, 09:55:32 pm

Very nice looking bow!!!

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Post by: Badly Bent on October 09, 2015, 10:55:50 pm

Smokin' hot bow Marc, sure looks hunt worthy from where I'm sitting.

Title: Re: Bamboo backed Rosewood
Post by: jeffp51 on October 09, 2015, 11:06:21 pm

Marc's role in life is to remind the rest of us what amateurs we really are.  Beautiful work, I bow down to your mastery.  Thank you for sharing.

Title: Re: Bamboo backed Rosewood
Post by: GB on October 09, 2015, 11:56:17 pm

She's a beauty.  Love that profile!

Title: Re: Bamboo backed Rosewood
Post by: simson on October 10, 2015, 12:08:51 am

Gorgous bow from very fine ingredients, that rosewood looks great and also the skins.
Masterly excecuted.

Title: Re: Bamboo backed Rosewood
Post by: James Rodney on October 10, 2015, 12:29:45 am

Selling it? 😶

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Post by: Bowmonk on October 10, 2015, 01:10:30 am

Beautiful design Marc... Nice to see you are still here and making bows. :)

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Post by: rps3 on October 10, 2015, 04:57:54 am

I will take it hunting! Love the looks of this one.

Title: Re: Bamboo backed Rosewood
Post by: Aaron H on October 10, 2015, 07:42:10 am

Sweet bow Marc,  That rosewood looks really nice, and it certainly looks fast

Title: Re: Bamboo backed Rosewood
Post by: Marc St Louis on October 10, 2015, 08:56:34 am

Thank you guys

Title: Re: Bamboo backed Rosewood
Post by: Aaron H on October 10, 2015, 09:03:17 am

Does your arrow have draw length graduations on it?

Title: Re: Bamboo backed Rosewood
Post by: bushboy on October 10, 2015, 09:05:35 am

If you don't mind,what species of rosewood?Another masterpiece in both art and function!beautiful indeed!

Title: Re: Bamboo backed Rosewood
Post by: Marc St Louis on October 10, 2015, 09:07:54 am

Yes it does Aaron and the last mark is 28"

It's Brazilian Rosewood

Title: Re: Bamboo backed Rosewood
Post by: redhawk55 on October 10, 2015, 11:41:26 am

How beautiful a bow can be!
Beauty at its best: great look, great performance.
Looking at this bow, I can't understand why people are wasting their time with plastic bows!
Michael

Title: Re: Bamboo backed Rosewood
Post by: Badger on October 10, 2015, 11:46:54 am

       Mark makes it look easy, those bows are not that easy to tiller out the way he does.

Title: Re: Bamboo backed Rosewood
Post by: AndrewS on October 10, 2015, 05:39:44 pm

@Marc
real a good workmanship - you know the way to build short and fast and beauty bows.....

Title: Re: Bamboo backed Rosewood
Post by: Marc St Louis on October 11, 2015, 08:44:16 am

The Rosewood is a beautiful wood with striking grain and makes a good looking bow.  It's also very oily and with its high density makes it a good wet weather hunting bow.  I've used one of these when it was raining out and it didn't suffer any effects from the moisture

Title: Re: Bamboo backed Rosewood
Post by: Carson (CMB) on October 11, 2015, 11:18:01 am

Very nice work Mark. Looks very smooth and fast.

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Post by: mullet on October 11, 2015, 03:45:45 pm

Another rocket launcher and pretty, as usual.

Title: Re: Bamboo backed Rosewood
Post by: Pappy on October 12, 2015, 07:26:36 am

Very nice work Marc, beautiful bow. :)
 Pappy

Title: Re: Bamboo backed Rosewood
Post by: Marc St Louis on October 12, 2015, 08:18:41 am

Thanks guys