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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: HighEagle on April 24, 2019, 11:36:28 am

Title: 49" Mock Orange HLD UPDATE
Post by: HighEagle on April 24, 2019, 11:36:28 am

let me know if this works And if you want to see , my preview wont show the pic

<a href="https://imgur.com/Fk1bKbk"  49" Mock Orange HLD 40-42# @ 22"

here it go's chuck

Title: Re: 49" Mock Orange HLD test post
Post by: hoosierf on April 24, 2019, 11:40:10 am

I can see it in Imgur.

Title: Re: 49" Mock Orange HLD test post
Post by: HighEagle on April 24, 2019, 11:46:19 am

do you see the whole folder or just the one pic?  I'll keep working on it .  Thanks Chuck

Title: Re: 49" Mock Orange HLD test post
Post by: HighEagle on April 24, 2019, 01:23:20 pm

How is this for photo size?

  Mock Orange bow, approx 40# @22" how she look?

(https://i.imgur.com/eDpmuY5.jpg)

Title: Re: 49" Mock Orange HLD test post
Post by: DC on April 24, 2019, 02:52:41 pm

That looks good. And so does the size :D

Title: Re: 49" Mock Orange HLD test post
Post by: hoosierf on April 24, 2019, 03:19:11 pm

 Nice bow - and in Imgur I saw just the one pic.

Title: Re: 49" Mock Orange HLD test post
Post by: Dante_F on April 24, 2019, 03:59:21 pm

nice, dont see too many hollow limbs on here

Title: Re: 49" Mock Orange HLD test post
Post by: PaSteve on April 24, 2019, 06:18:25 pm

That's a cool looking bow. Would like to see more pics.

Title: Re: 49" Mock Orange HLD test post
Post by: HighEagle on April 24, 2019, 10:37:18 pm

Here are a few more pix

41/2"  brace (https://i.imgur.com/Fk1bKbk.jpg) 

 (https://i.imgur.com/7stzFPx.jpg)

Side profile (https://i.imgur.com/fmc8rep.jpg) 

Ridges and Valleys Back of Upper Limb  (https://i.imgur.com/7MtMKN1.jpg)

 I like making these sapling bows and the HLD seems to be working good for me. I also have HLD Hawthorn bow 66" NTN I'm shooting in right now will post soon. If you want to see some super nice HLD Bows check out Simon and Weylin's bows I never will get a finished like they get suppose I'm a bit lazy.

  Thanks for looking Chuck

Title: Re: 49" Mock Orange HLD
Post by: ohma2 on April 25, 2019, 07:43:51 am

Like your bow and tiller,but i hate those big glob of string silencers.but its not my bow.

Title: Re: 49" Mock Orange HLD
Post by: simson on April 26, 2019, 12:28:56 am

The fd looks very good, unbraced has a bit to much stringfollow for my taste. Or was it naturally deflexed?
The back looks awesome with the rips and valleys.

I like your outfit by the way, esp. the hat!

Title: Re: 49" Mock Orange HLD
Post by: SLIMBOB on April 26, 2019, 05:39:37 am

+1 Simon.  Nice work on the drawn profile.  Maybe a little heat treat to straighten and stiffen the belly?

Title: Re: 49" Mock Orange HLD
Post by: HighEagle on April 26, 2019, 06:37:44 am

Thanks all for looking and comments,

 The bow is not yet 100% finished. Ya the string silencers are a bit tacky but its only my Tillering string and the yarn is a quick fix to get the twang out. thanks Simon and SlimBob think I may add some heat straighten it

Thanks again everybody for the comments Chuck

 The old hat was one I had retired but the best part of is the  Birch Bark hatband I made for it

Title: Re: 49" Mock Orange HLD
Post by: ohma2 on April 26, 2019, 07:21:59 am

I also like your old hat they are hard to give up.looking forward to your next bow.

Title: Re: 49" Mock Orange HLD UPDATE
Post by: HighEagle on March 14, 2020, 07:22:19 pm

I came back to work on this bow. I did a heat treat, flipped the tips, and worked on the tiller,  I still pull it 22-23in but now its at 47/48lbs I can pull my bows further on the tree then in hand had it to 24" at 50-52# on the tree 

Thanks for looking, Chuck    The pix were taken today colder then stink here today...

Title: Re: 49" Mock Orange HLD UPDATE
Post by: Limbit on March 15, 2020, 02:23:45 am

The aboriginals here in Taiwan where I live prefer to use a similar tree that sometimes goes under the same name: murraya paniculata. Great bow wood and it looks very similar. Impossible to find a straight piece, so most of the bows are traditionally snakey knotty things. Has the best compression I've seen in a wood outside juniper. Hell of a lot heavier. The aboriginals also use it for hammer heads because it takes a beating and doesn't check easily.