Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Chuck Jones on February 18, 2008, 06:06:28 pm
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I posted this once and I do apologize for I can not find it. For Christmas this year my oldest daughter and her family gave me some 1 x 6 x 72 sawmill cut red oak, ash, and cherry.
The first picture will be of a hickory board 1 1/2" wide. 66" long 48@26.
The Second picture will be red oak 1 3/4" x 66" 58@26.
The third picture will be red oak 1 3/4 x 66 58@26. I cut the rest on the left instead of the right??
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holy smokes , you realy getting that tiller thing down drudda!
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Beautiful tillers on those bows. Great way to start the year Steve
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Looks like a great job on your tillering...that's 90% of the job! :)
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Thanks all for the input. After my other tillering jobs I am really proud of these bows. When I started this endeavor I wanted to make a bow that I could take hunting. You know something that you actually made yourself. I have wood now to use so I will be making more....This site has been a real encouragement to me....thanks...chuck
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I don't mean to be critical but constructive critism is what always helps me!!
I like the last 2 bows but to me the top bow seems to have a stiff left limb compared to the right one.
If I'm seeing it wrong I would like to know too!! ;)
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Those are awesome tillers. Well done. Jawge
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Ha! Thought I was the only one who cut the shelf other than I intended! I gave that one to a lefty I know.
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A big improvement from what I showed in 2007. The first three bows that I have made that look like bows and havent snaped. I feel like now I may have it down to continue. I have been eyeing a piece of Junifer that I cut in November, however, it has a bad end. On the under side of the piece about a foot from the end it had grown with two smaller limbs side by side. If I cut that section off it would be a short bow.
I am glad to know that I am not the only one who has things wrong. Nocks going the wrong way on one end, also, makes the bow shorter! I am sure a lefty will show up sooner or later.
Again, thanks for being supportive during this trial and error period....chuck
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Very nicely done.Tiller looks great.Great start on the year.
Pappy
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Hey Chuck,this is a long shot,but depending on the grain of the lefty, just maybbe it would be possible to make it a right agin by backing the belly and shoot it backwards from the intended build. Or more sanely offer it up for trade for another stick to start on.
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Auggie--I had thought about turning it around and cutting a shelf on the right side?????How insane is that! In the meantime deciding what to do with it I have a pastey rest that I could put on it on the right side. Or maybe keep it as a reminder of what not to do unless, or course, you want the arrow rest on the left side!...chuck
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I've seen bows with shelves on both sides. But with so many needy lefty shooters out there...did I mention I'm a lefty? hehe
Cranking them out in '08 aren't ya. I like the looks of them all, very round tillers. Are they going to be presents for the folks who got you the wood?
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Tom Sawyer--Shelves on both sides?? Wouldnt that make the riser awful thin? Or are you talking about fliping the bow around and creating another shelf? I am not against giving the bows away or trading them for something that I need, however, I do need to keep one if for no other reason these are my first sucessful bows. The Christmas gift was really appreciated, however, none of them are shooters.
I would really like to try a stave now?....chuck
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Good job Chuck. Very nice tiller on all. Danny
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Any other pictures, unbraced, braced, etc. of your three bows?
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Oldbow I will try to get some up. I have been waiting so the wife can take some shots at fulldraw. Only see her once a week (oposing work shifts and days) but I will try to get some up soon...chuck
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Here are some more pictures of the bows. Photo bucket showed them to be pretty grainy. Maybe if I load the picture directly into photo bucker before I do any editing.
Bow # 1 is hickory 66' 48@26"
Bow # 2 is Red Oak 66" 58@26"
Bow # 3 is Red Oak 66" 58@26
I took one unbraced picture of the red oak bows for the set was the same.
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Here is the last set of pictures for Bow # 3
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I tried my hand at combining pictures to see if it works better..chuck
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