Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Mo_coon-catcher on October 18, 2018, 07:36:59 am
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Here’s a little teaser of a persimmon bendy handles molle I just finished this morning. I’ll do a full update nice I have time to take more pictures either this evening, I just couldn’t not show this one a little. But it is 45# at 27” and took about 1.5” set.
Kyle
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Looking forward to the rest.few years ago i cut some persimmon and man it sure likes to twist.got a couple bows out of it though.
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Looking forward to braced and full draw. You sure got some levers on that baby.
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That’s a teaser for sure! Looks like a rocker launcher with those narrow levers. Great to see you do those the right way!
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I like all that character Kyle...Should make for an interesting tiller...
Don
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Here’s some better pictures and info.
She’s heat treated persimmon that draws 45# at 27”. 61” nock to nock, 4” handle section, lower limb is 14” to the lever fade, upper limb is 15” from handle to lever fade. Lower lever is 12.5” from fade to nock, the upper is just shy of 13”, and the lever fades are about 1.5” each. The limbs are 1.5” wide from handle to fade levers with the handle about 3/16” narrower. The levers go from 3/4” wide at the fade to 3/8” at the nocks. The depth is 3/4” at the fade to 3/8” at the nock. It weighs about 17.5 ounce with te leather and string. I haven’t chronographed it but it’s very soft when shot but throws an arrow hard. It’s finished with linseed oil followed by about 8 coats of truoil with the India ink put on after the first coat of truoil.
Thanks for looking,
Kyle
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Some more
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The last few
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Nice! Ought to be a fast shooter!
Hawkdancer
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Looking Good Kyle. :OK
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Very nicely done sir. I especially like the fact that you tillered your working limbs to bend circular (from fade to fade) instead of more bend at the grip. I know those shoot really well.
rich
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Not much room for error on that bow. Nice job Kyle!
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another beauty Kyle!
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Cool bow! Didn't know you can make bows from this wood. I only get hands on the fruits :NN
I defenitly will try out this design, thanks for showing!
Martin
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Cool bow Kyle. 8) I dig the random splotches of color.
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Thanks for the input everyone. I’m beginning to love working with persimmon the more I use it. And love the grain pattern, it has a micro crosshatching type pattern to it you can see in sunlight. This bow isn’t super fast but I was getting about 150fps from a 450gr arrow only drawing about 25.5”. So I would guess in the upper 150s-low 160s when pulled to 27”. I have trouble getting myself to stretch my draw when over a chrony and shooting inside. So it had some more room to pull. But those long levers make for a super soft shooter, as in very quiet with negligible vibration at the shot. That’s before putting string fluffs on I never shot it with them on but can imagine how well it shoots now.
That splotchy pattern on the back is from leaving some of the cambium. Persimmon seems to have a thick but tightly adheared cambium. I took it down thin enough that I’m not afraid of it taking any solid wood with it if it decides to pop off. But it did scare me a bit while tillering, since it would occasionally crack making a little tick as it would. It didn’t appear to do any damage but it sure gets the heart thumping when you hear that faint sound.
I definitely recommend giving persimmon a try if you get the chance,
Kyle
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Nice work