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mikekeswick

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Re: Hackberry ELB
« Reply #15 on: October 24, 2014, 04:58:59 am »
Sweet  bow.  8)

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Re: Hackberry ELB
« Reply #16 on: October 24, 2014, 05:18:10 am »
Very nice job Chris,you could make pork out of a pigs ear.Like the dye job and the tillerl ooks spot on to me.  :)
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Offline Gsulfridge

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Re: Hackberry ELB
« Reply #17 on: October 24, 2014, 06:41:21 am »
Looks good Chris.  Nice finish and tiller.
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Re: Hackberry ELB
« Reply #18 on: October 24, 2014, 08:37:57 am »
Looking good.  I hope that knot is not working because I do think I see a bit of a crack on the bottom edge of it.
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Re: Hackberry ELB
« Reply #19 on: October 24, 2014, 08:50:10 am »
Very nice job Chris,you could make pork out of a pigs ear.
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Lol  :laugh:  :laugh: ...thanks ;)

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Re: Hackberry ELB
« Reply #20 on: October 24, 2014, 09:03:01 am »
Looking good.  I hope that knot is not working because I do think I see a bit of a crack on the bottom edge of it.

Yeah...im aware of it...Even tho it was peeled and sealed it still checked a little there where theres a small open dark cavity there...it wasn't punky wood tho,and since the tree started growing new wood over top of it I didn't wanna drill it out,and it seemed "sound" from the belly side as well...I kept close watch of it,n it never opened further...and I didn't even shoot super glue in it until after I shot it in...at least its going with the grain,and if it opened more it wood just run along the grain staying well away from an edge...I'd just wrap it if it grew more...besides the point of the exercise is to show with the right piece of hackberry in the right hands can handle the elb cross section in compression,and we already know how crazy strong it is in tension... So who cares if it did let loose in tension ;) it has ~150 arras thru it so far,and i will keep shooting it to see how it fairs in the long run..so far so good ...if anything happens negative to it I will update...but if ya never see me update then ya known alls well

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Re: Hackberry ELB
« Reply #21 on: October 24, 2014, 09:26:24 am »
Excellent ELB with some character.
Nice one.
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Re: Hackberry ELB
« Reply #22 on: October 24, 2014, 09:49:17 am »
Nice work man.  She turned out nice.  I like the stain job.  That's one big bow I would look like a kid shooting that thing.  How is the shock.  I bet it draws smooooooth.

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Re: Hackberry ELB
« Reply #23 on: October 24, 2014, 10:59:20 am »
I always look forward to seeing one of your bows.  8). I really miss your blunt honesty also.  I think we need a little more of that on this site.  It is good to see a post. 

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Re: Hackberry ELB
« Reply #24 on: October 24, 2014, 11:04:43 am »
Great bow Chris!!! Is that the hackberry we cut in the spring?

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Re: Hackberry ELB
« Reply #25 on: October 24, 2014, 12:31:22 pm »
In the growth rings on the belly side of the knot you can see your face staring back at you at the top.
 At the bottom is a chubby alien carrying a giant dog head on his right shoulder.
 Yeah, I see pictures in wood grain.  ;D

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Re: Hackberry ELB
« Reply #26 on: October 24, 2014, 12:41:14 pm »
Nice bow BH.  Now go shoot a deer with it  ;)
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Re: Hackberry ELB
« Reply #27 on: October 24, 2014, 12:51:39 pm »
Cool  8)
Talking trees. What do trees have to talk about, hmm... except the consistency of squirrel droppings?

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Re: Hackberry ELB
« Reply #28 on: October 24, 2014, 01:45:20 pm »
Nvm Chris i answered my own question when I went back and read. The stuff we cut had huge rings

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Re: Hackberry ELB
« Reply #29 on: October 24, 2014, 04:59:00 pm »
Thanks guys  :laugh: 

Pat...what r u smoking??? Gimme sum  ::) I see the face but not the alien and dog head

Matt its not really shocky..hackberry is a light wood so it does well in that regard

Yeah Jon this wasn't the stuff we cut...this came from the Ohio batch I cut a few years ago...I actually gave you a stave from this stuff when josh(gun doc) was over hanging out..he got one too n already made a bow from it...you ever finish yours?