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Offline Dean Marlow

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Tow Tone Take-Down Osage Selfbow
« on: July 04, 2010, 02:38:13 pm »
I had a take down bow I had on here a while back that had 2 different colored limbs. I was asking how to darken the one limb to match the other and most people said leave it like it is. So that is what I did. After putting several coats of Tru-Oil on  it did come a little closer in color. But it is kind of cool the way it turned out. It is 66" long. 1-1/2" wide at the fades to mid limb then tapers down to 7/16" wide at the string knocks. It is 48lbs. at 28". It shoots real nice and will be my major hunting bow for the 2010 season. I have a friend who made the fast flite string for it and I put beaver fur string silencers on it. First time for fast flite and string silencers for me. On the full draw picture I got it pulled to about 27". My left shoulder has been giving me trouble the last couple of weeks and I am not quite up to geting it all the way back. Father time is starting to show up. Dean

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Offline Dean Marlow

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Re: Tow Tone Take-Down Osage Selfbow
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2010, 02:41:05 pm »
Also it has deer horn overlay tips. Here is a few pictures of it.

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Offline NTD

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Re: Tow Tone Take-Down Osage Selfbow
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2010, 02:45:23 pm »
Very very nice bow!
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Re: Tow Tone Take-Down Osage Selfbow
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2010, 02:54:08 pm »
Thats awesome man.  Great lookin tiller and the bow itself is a beauty.  Thats some quality craftmanship right there.  Congrats.
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: Tow Tone Take-Down Osage Selfbow
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2010, 02:55:13 pm »
Really pretty bow, nice clean "can't see the join" take down.
BTW Watch out for that Russian sub spying on you ...  :o
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: Tow Tone Take-Down Osage Selfbow
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2010, 03:08:08 pm »
Very nicely done. Excellent work. Jawge
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Offline Gordon

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Re: Tow Tone Take-Down Osage Selfbow
« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2010, 03:45:23 pm »
I like it a lot. Well done!
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Re: Tow Tone Take-Down Osage Selfbow
« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2010, 04:06:42 pm »
Looks real nice Dean. Gotta try one of those sometime myself.

Offline aero86

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Re: Tow Tone Take-Down Osage Selfbow
« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2010, 04:09:47 pm »
wow!  looks awesome!  i plan to make a takedown one of these days!
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Offline bcbull

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Re: Tow Tone Take-Down Osage Selfbow
« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2010, 04:31:30 pm »
looks even better than when i  first seen it a few weeks ago dean i like it brock

Offline gmc

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Re: Tow Tone Take-Down Osage Selfbow
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2010, 05:41:46 pm »
That's pretty awesome right there. The tiller looks spot-on to me, very nice work.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Tow Tone Take-Down Osage Selfbow
« Reply #11 on: July 04, 2010, 07:00:06 pm »
Very nice bow Dean. Tiller is great and the "coontail" with the white antler tips really sets it off. 
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Offline Dean Marlow

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Re: Tow Tone Take-Down Osage Selfbow
« Reply #12 on: July 04, 2010, 07:56:23 pm »
Thanks everyone for the nice compliments. Del that Russian sub gets real expensive to keep in my yard  in the winter. I need to either make or get a case for this bow. I have been leaning towards one that will hold a half a dozen arrows also. Will have to look around for one. Thanks again evrybody. It was fun to make.

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Re: Tow Tone Take-Down Osage Selfbow
« Reply #13 on: July 04, 2010, 08:26:53 pm »
Great looking bow.Very nice job on the skins!!
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Re: Tow Tone Take-Down Osage Selfbow
« Reply #14 on: July 04, 2010, 08:54:13 pm »
Turned out great Dean....I think that with a little time...the Limbs will match on their Own...Hey....Tiller looks perfect on this one....nice job...... ;)
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