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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Jonas on July 04, 2017, 07:27:35 am

Title: Black Locust bow
Post by: Jonas on July 04, 2017, 07:27:35 am

And the last bow for today  ;) Its 35lbs@26", has some deflex and relex as well and is a little bit snaky. i left one ring of sapwood on the back, but its alsready about to become heartwood at some spots

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Post by: Jonas on July 04, 2017, 07:28:28 am

More pics

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Post by: Jonas on July 04, 2017, 07:29:15 am

More

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Post by: Jonas on July 04, 2017, 07:32:15 am

And the last two

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Post by: George Tsoukalas on July 04, 2017, 08:12:55 am

Wow! Impressive. Jawge

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Post by: bjrogg on July 04, 2017, 08:46:17 am

Nice work Jonas. That stave looks a bit more challenging than the average stave. Reminds me of the HHB I made for my son.

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Post by: selfbow joe on July 04, 2017, 10:30:23 pm

Great work!

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Post by: upstatenybowyer on July 04, 2017, 11:05:07 pm

You've been hard at work! Nice job on a challenging stave  :OK

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Post by: Pappy on July 05, 2017, 04:04:46 am

Very nice work, beautiful till for a challenging stave. :)
 Pappy

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Post by: leonwood on July 05, 2017, 06:20:22 am

That's quite a snake you got there! Really nice to turn that into a shooter!

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Post by: ntvbowyer1969 on July 07, 2017, 01:02:08 am

awesome job on that tricky stick

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Post by: Springbuck on July 07, 2017, 01:37:43 pm

Snakes and R/D?  Wow!  Brave man, good effort!

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Post by: Danzn Bar on July 07, 2017, 06:37:39 pm

That one does have a little snake to it.  In the unbrace profile which limb is the bottom?  The fads may need to bend a little more pending which one is the bottom. JIMHO......Assuming the left limb is the bottom, it looks good in the FD pic but I think for longevity of the bow I would have made the limbs equal as possible at the unbraced pic.  It is apparent one limb is working more than the other in the full draw.....again JMO 
DBar

Title: Re: Black Locust bow
Post by: Emmet on July 08, 2017, 10:07:01 am

Wild one for sure. Nice work!