Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: bowmo on August 17, 2007, 06:58:03 pm
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Haven't had that much time to work on bows lately, but I managed to finish this one up the other day. She's a osage and walnut tri lam. I cut down the trees and made the boards that this bow is made from myself using a jointer. Two layers of osage make up the limbs with a raw bamboo back. Osage and walnut handle/power lams; walnut underlays; and osage, walnut, and horn tip overlays. I threw on some Western diamondback skins to dress it up a little more. Pulls 50 pounds at 28 inches.
Dan
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WOW a real beaut there Bowmo. Love the tip overlays. Overall nice and sleek looking.
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Smooth graceful lines and a striking color combonation. That is one of the prettiest bows I have ever seen.
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This'uns really nice Bowmo.....Brian
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Dan, Nice wood combo and very nice bow.The tip underlays are cool. I guess its to keep the tips stiff.
How bout a full draw. ;) Pat
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dan! - this is a really g o o d l o o k i n g bow and the profile looks like she's quite fast, too! i especiallly like the tips, over- and underlays! the underlays look long; didn't that cause problems like ends rolling up or something? i like underlays a lot, but i'm allways a bit scared of using them. i did underlays once with plumwood on a very light ashbow; in that case the plum was the harder wood. that worked just fine. (see below)
how long is thisone??
frank
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Real sharp bow the braced profile looks great but we need the full draw pic,
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Nice job Dan! I am a big fan of using walnut as accents in my bamboo backed bows. Mainly because I have a boatload and it looks real nice with osage. Have you tried walnut as a belly wood yet? Not the greatest belly wood but i have made a few that turned out pretty darn good.
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Nice bow, Dan
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Wow Dan, that bow is stunning! Great job! Yep, I want to see full draw.
Sean
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Awsome Dan,How long is the bow?
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Beautiful all around aught to about cover it ;D. That is one of the prettiest that I too have ever laid eyes on.
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Excellant craftsmanship.A true beauty.tradrick
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Some folks have all the talent. Beautiful bow/Great lines. With a full draw image we can look at it for Backed Bow of the Month for August.
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Thanks guys! The way I do underlays is to tiller the bow out to 24 or 25 inches and then use a belt sander to remove some wood on both tips for about 10 or 11 inches. Then I glue in a new piece and shape it to fill in all the wood I removed. The trick is to make them long so they can safely bend with the bow. You can use them to help keep the tips stiff, but in the case of this one the proflie looks the same as it did before I put them on. I just put them on to look nice and cover up a mistake where I let the rasp tare into the edge grain core a little. ::) I've done a couple with walnut cores, like you said not the best core wood out there but it can work nice if you use a really nice piece of walnut for the job. Oh ya, and the bow is 63" ntn.
Dan
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Thats a real beauty Dan.Love everything about it.Great job. :)
Pappy
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You did a great job, again. Justin
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Very nice!
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Could not pass without comments.
wow...a really wonderful bow :)
Ajar
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Boy thats some fine craftsmanship
Dave
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That's a real fine looking bow. Great craftmanship :)