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Offline zenmonkeyman

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Saskatoon bow. Done!
« on: February 28, 2010, 04:38:55 pm »
I hemmed and hawed the whole time I was making this bow as to the name.  I like wordplay, so it was tough.  There is a city in Saskatchewan called Saskatoon, the same as the berry.  The folks from the area, like adb for example, sometimes refer to the city as "S'toon."  So finally I settled on "The Stooner"  because it's silly, even if the name implies something about me that isn't so.  The Stooner is 65 1/2 N2N, drawing 42#@30".  She's a D bow (sorta) with lots of dips and swerves.  Flat belly, less than an inch wide at the handle.  Started out with an inch of deflex on account of the roller coaster, and has taken only 1 inch of set on top of that.  I rawhided (dog treat) the top of the crown, heat treated the belly.  Used some flexible dollar-store cork coasters to build up a nice handle and wrapped it with leather secured with strategic dabs of super glue.  The arrow shelf is a bit of left-over chokecherry.  I stained the belly purple with saskatoon herbal tea.  "Prettied" her up with some yellow perch skins, and painted borders around the skins with acrylic artists' paint.  The antler overlays are from a buck I shot (with a gun, oh the shame) several years ago.  The lower tip has a second nock for stringing purposes.  Spar varnish over the works.  Pictures.  Don't look too close at that tiller!!!







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Re: Saskatoon bow. Done!
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2010, 04:57:02 pm »
Very unique look to that bow. Nice job. 

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Re: Saskatoon bow. Done!
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2010, 05:21:35 pm »
cool bow , congrats
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« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2010, 05:51:02 pm »
 Cool bow, bet that dip in the lower limb was a challenge. Look's like the wife was relaxed when she took that picture ;)
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Re: Saskatoon bow. Done!
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2010, 05:53:57 pm »
very fishy,very nice ;D 8)

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« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2010, 06:34:17 pm »
Wow, I like it, really a narly bow.
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« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2010, 08:26:03 pm »
Woah, that is a freaky bow... awesome, but freaky. What a mind for the creative.  :o
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« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2010, 08:28:20 pm »
Nice job on a tough piece.
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Re: Saskatoon bow. Done!
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2010, 12:45:49 am »
Sweet bow. i think thats the first time ive seen perch skins on one lol. when i first glanced at the picture it looked like leaves on a bamboo pole ;D looks neat, what type of wood is it??  Ty
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« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2010, 12:52:14 am »
See this is what I like to do and see myself! Unique and out of the ordinary.  Great bow and design!!!

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Offline zenmonkeyman

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Re: Saskatoon bow. Done!
« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2010, 01:27:40 am »
Thanks very much for the comments guys! 

Mullet, I promised my wife I was going to crop her foot out of the picture.  Oops!  The dip in the lower limb had me worried, it's really hard to see how much movement the kink has, and the little dive before it looks hinged the the paranoid mind even at brace! ... So I just left the whole section a little thick, never did figure out if that area is doing too much work or any work at all.

Aries, I wanted to use fish skins, but all I had in the freezer was perch.  I thought, "I can't use perch!  That would be ridiculous!"  That's when I decided to use the perch.  I wanted to eat them anyways, they're delicious!  Oh, and saskatoon is a regional variant of serviceberry.  I highly recommend it, but this is my first shooter, so take that for what it's worth!  But I think the numbers speak for the wood quite well:  Over 40# on a 1" stick and holding only 1" of set on a 30" draw.  I think I could have gotten 50# if I wasn't so chicken about piking it.

gmc, kerryb, mich, VB, Okie, Prof, and VBS:  Unique, freaky, gnarly, cool, and fishy is EXACTLY what I was going for!  Thanks for the kind words.
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Re: Saskatoon bow. Done!
« Reply #11 on: March 01, 2010, 01:53:02 am »
don't forget trippy, very trippy bow!

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Re: Saskatoon bow. Done!
« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2010, 11:43:20 am »
Nice bow, tiller looks pretty good all things considered, so how were the perch? :)
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« Reply #13 on: March 01, 2010, 11:56:03 am »
Good job on a challenging piece of wood.  :)
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« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2010, 12:45:47 pm »
Awesome bow Zen!  ...Is this the same bow I watched the video on where you were shooting it in the hallway and you said "dont nobody tell my wife about this"  ?  Great work, very original finish work I like it alot!   :)
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