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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Mo_coon-catcher on June 27, 2018, 05:25:13 pm

Title: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
Post by: Mo_coon-catcher on June 27, 2018, 05:25:13 pm

I finally did all the finish work to the hackberry bendy handle bow. I ended up getting it to pull 40# at 26”. I heated in about 1” reflex when I heat treated and it ended up resting essentially flat. Though after shooting it has about 1” of temp set that creeps back after a few minutes. It’s about 53” n2n, 1 3/8” to the scallop hills and about 1 1/4” to the valley. It has 3/8” single side nocks with cow horn overlays. The handle has a built up cork with leather wrap. It weighs in at 13 ounces with te string. Finish is just one heavy coat of linseed oil, followed by 10-12 coats of truoil. It also has very tight growth rings that are hard for me to get in a picture but are apparent in person. This is the one I plan to put in the auction at mojam this year.

Thanks for looking,
Kyle

Title: Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
Post by: Mo_coon-catcher on June 27, 2018, 05:26:07 pm

A few more pictures

Kyle

Title: Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
Post by: Dvshunter on June 27, 2018, 05:30:36 pm

Thats a nice one! I cant wait to see it at the auction!

Title: Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
Post by: Bob Barnes on June 27, 2018, 08:59:58 pm

 :OK  great job!

Title: Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
Post by: penderbender on June 27, 2018, 10:14:11 pm

Another nice one Kyle. Someone's gonna love that.  Cheers- Brendan

Title: Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
Post by: JW_Halverson on June 29, 2018, 02:17:52 pm

Wow, she's a fancy filly what with those wibbly-wobbly bits on the limbs! Someone is gonna be happy to win her hand, and a lot of others are gonna be green with envy.

Title: Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
Post by: PaulN/KS on June 30, 2018, 07:11:47 am

Lookin' Good Kyle!  :OK

Title: Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
Post by: PaulN/KS on July 26, 2018, 08:30:31 am

Just wanted to bring this post back up...
I won the bow at the Mojam auction and it's better looking in person as than the pictures. It shoots as good as it looks too. Nice work Kyle.  :OK

Title: Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
Post by: Mo_coon-catcher on July 26, 2018, 12:09:24 pm

Thank you sir. Glad you like it. I hope you don’t mind the single side nocks, I’m starting to become addicted to those things for smaller tips.

Kyle

Title: Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
Post by: PaulN/KS on July 26, 2018, 02:08:30 pm

With those tiny tips there's no room for a second nock...  :o  ;)
Actually they look kinda cool but I did swap out the skinny, double loop string for a fatter single loop string with a bowyers knot for the lower limb. Seems to work better for my stringing technique and keeps the string attached for hanging it up by the string keeper.

Title: Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
Post by: Danzn Bar on July 26, 2018, 06:07:00 pm

Hey Kyle,
love the hackberry, how did it smell during heat treat? :)
DBar

Title: Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
Post by: Accipiter on July 26, 2018, 06:07:59 pm

Dang, nice curve on that thing. Make that wood work!

Title: Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
Post by: upstatenybowyer on July 26, 2018, 07:50:20 pm

Nice one coon.  (-S

Title: Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
Post by: wizardgoat on July 27, 2018, 12:54:19 pm

Nice one Kyle! You do anything with that yew stave yet?

Title: Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
Post by: Mo_coon-catcher on July 27, 2018, 01:12:10 pm

Thanks guys. The stave smelled sort of like sugar cookies while heat treating. Sure beats them smell of the persimmon I just heat treated last night.
I haven’t started on thenyew just yet. I was waiting until I fully made up my mind as to what to do with it. And getting the confidence to properly execute the design. I was debating between a hedeby and a Mary rose. I’ve decided on a Mary rose. I’ll take some measurements and pick one that will fit the stave well. That and I keep having more projects pop up. I couldn’t build much over the last month, but now I should be free for a while, so I can get te other projects out of the way to focus on a couple fun ones for myself.

Kyle

Title: Re: Hackberry bendy, 40# at 26”
Post by: selfbow joe on July 28, 2018, 10:53:28 am

Nice looking bow