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Title: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: bushboy on May 15, 2018, 01:21:22 pm

Really good piece of elm with bright yellow top rings.hardly heat treated it at all.60#@26",61" ttt,elm bark handle,owl fearther and rose wood tips.thanks for looking!bush!

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: bushboy on May 15, 2018, 01:24:17 pm

More

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: bushboy on May 15, 2018, 01:26:12 pm

Unbraced

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: DC on May 15, 2018, 01:26:52 pm

I like that! Leather stain on the bow?

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: Stick Bender on May 15, 2018, 01:31:55 pm

Very nice !!

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on May 15, 2018, 01:33:38 pm

Killer tiller Bushy.

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: bushboy on May 15, 2018, 01:58:40 pm

Thxs!green rit dye and poly.

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: Aaron H on May 15, 2018, 02:08:13 pm

Man your tiller is always spot on

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: bookworm on May 15, 2018, 02:46:54 pm

AWESOME! Very nice bow.

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: DC on May 15, 2018, 02:57:49 pm

Quote from: bushboy on May 15, 2018, 01:58:40 pm

Thxs!green rit dye and poly.

Mix the dye with the poly?

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: stuckinthemud on May 15, 2018, 02:59:15 pm

just put making one of those on my 'to-do' list, love it!

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: bushboy on May 15, 2018, 03:27:03 pm

Thanks guys!dc I dilute the dye with a little rubbing alcohol,let dry and wipe it down with a damp cloth,light sanding to bring out some hilights and then seal it up with spray poly.a side note,armour all will speed up the curing big time!

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: Danzn Bar on May 15, 2018, 06:23:02 pm

Very nice....love the bends ..... :)
DBar

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: bjrogg on May 15, 2018, 06:45:04 pm

Sweet tiller. Very nice bow.
Bjrogg

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: upstatenybowyer on May 15, 2018, 08:24:22 pm

Way to go bush! The transitions into the levers look really smooth.  8) Love the color and the tiller looks awesome.  :OK

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: BowEd on May 15, 2018, 08:34:56 pm

I like it.Nice work all around.Spot on.

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: Knoll on May 15, 2018, 09:27:00 pm

Saved the pictures to remind what, in my eye, near perfection in this design looks like.
Lovely lines.
CONGRATS!

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: Bob Barnes on May 16, 2018, 09:03:13 am

I've never been a Molly/holmgaard fan...but your looks great.  I guess some day I need to learn how to make a bow that only bends in part of the limb and doesn't take any set...  :BB  Would you give the limb profile dimensions?

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: rps3 on May 16, 2018, 11:18:17 am

Have to say you nailed it. I was wondering about limb dimensions also.

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: Bayou Ben on May 16, 2018, 11:35:48 am

Very nice!   You have to have some skill to pull that unbraced profile off with such a small working area.  And nice shooting gloves  :D

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: leonwood on May 16, 2018, 12:42:34 pm

Sweet bow! I love those curvy shapes with narrow levers. Smooth and fast!

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: simk on May 17, 2018, 02:31:00 am

What a bow, what a killer-tiller - Congrats bushboy!

I was never sure if I like the molle-design, but with these recurves...I think now I know what to try soon with this elm-stave I was promised by a friend... :BB

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: druid on May 17, 2018, 05:04:08 am

Very elegant bow. Like it.

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: Will B on May 17, 2018, 05:55:33 am

Great looking bow and excellent bend!!

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: Pappy on May 17, 2018, 06:14:04 am

Very nice work, beautiful in all aspects. :)
 Pappy

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: bushboy on May 18, 2018, 08:29:54 am

Thanks guys.the bow is 61" ttt,4" handle,fade are 1-1/2" and 2" wide,tapering down to 1"@ 14" from the fade and the beginning of the upper fade transition.the levers are 12" long to the tips,about 9/16" thick and 1/4" wide at the tips.i normally shy away from making the levers this long but there was a knot that I had to deal with.truelly a very stressed design but good elm is amazing stuff!thxs bush!

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: Springbuck on May 18, 2018, 03:24:03 pm

  That's really good stuff.  Good high weight for a shorty and beautiful strung profile and tiller.

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: selfbow joe on May 19, 2018, 10:31:48 am

Nice work

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: helmet on May 19, 2018, 11:09:00 am

Sweet! That looks like a great bow.

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: TorstenT on May 19, 2018, 03:15:16 pm

That’s awesome! Beautiful profile! Amazing, that you could pull off a design that has more stiff than working parts with almost zero set!
Congrats!
 :OK
Btw - would you tell me the brace height of that bow?

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: bushboy on May 20, 2018, 11:39:52 am

Brace is about 5", I like to keep it low as possible.i let this bow sweat for about 30 hrs in intervals of 3 hours before going to full draw.something I do with my elm bows now because of sudden draw weight loss and false tiller in the past.thxs!

Title: Re: Elm Molly/holmgaard
Post by: Marc St Louis on May 20, 2018, 01:45:19 pm

Lovely bow.  You did an excellent job with that one  :OK