new persimmon sapling bow

[Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive]

I have been out turkey hunting a lot lately but now that i have one down, i can get back to making a few bows,  this one is a persimmon sapling. the color is all natural to the species, with the light streaks in the greenish/grey colored wood.  no shelf, no tip overlays, nothin special, just wanted to make it look a little bit more aboriginal looking. shoots absolutely awesome, just a little string follow, but not very much. its about 66" long and 50# @28".  i could pike it and have plenty of wood to work with and increase the weight, but it just shoots so sweet the way it is,so i am goin to leave it.
    its a shame, about all the persimmon around here kinks or barber poles, i enjoy the wood, but i guess that is what makes it special to work with from time to time. good pieces are hard to find, and if you do find a nice piece there is a good chance it will twist every which way to sunday as it dries, and if you leave the bark on around here, bugs will eat it out in a matter of a week.  thanks for looking at it- Ryan

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[david w.]

That persimmon make a really neat looking bow   Nice bow!

[nickf]

just love the colour
nice bow !

[cracker]

Great lookin bow I'm thinking about taking the chainsaw to one of my persimmon trees.Ron

[ricktrojanowski]

Nice looking bow. I really love the clean look of a plain 'ol longbow like that on.  The natural colors give it a natural camo.  Really good work.

[DanaM]

Nice, simple unadorned meat maker Well done eh

[medicinewheel]

Very nice! That is the natural colour of this wood you say??

[Timo]

Got tons of perssimon around here, but never paid much attention to it,Always left them for the animals. Our trees seem to be mostly sapwood,never really noticed any wood the color that you bow is.Cousre I never cut a big one.

Nice color,and nice bow.

[Ryano]

Nice job Ryan. I really like the color of the wood. 

[redwasp]

You make some awsome bows Ryan. This one is no different.

[OldBow]

Ho hummm . another fine primitive bow by twisted limbs. Lots of fine self bows for BOM fun and this is a dandy.

[Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive]

thanks much guys,
   yeah its really the natural color. i have cut quite a few pieces and if you cut them in the spring they have a natural pigment that i guess gets spread to the fruit when they are green, the core of the wood has a real black pitch/syrup stink stuff.  when the tree is just a sapling like this one and you cut it in the spring i guess that black pitch has no where else to go and seeps through the rest of the wood.  i have had some that have big light patches in them where the pitch never seeped and others that are completely black.  most of the color usually goes straight to the sunlight and if you would sand the back you would lose a lot of the black color.  certainly an odd tree, i dont know if thats the scientific reasoning for it or not, that is just my speculation.   it may even just be because of the sand in grows in here...beats me..lol      but i have found the bigger the tree is, the less dark color it will produce, i assume b\c there is more wood for it to disburse into.....heck i dunno, i just build bows..lol

[Pappy]

Sweet ,simple bow,tiller looks great,very well done. I love the looks and color of persimmon.
   Pappy

[GregB]

Very nice, tller looks great!

[Hillbilly]

Great looking bow, I really like that one. All the persimmon I've cut here stayed white except for the odd purpleish streak here and there and a little dark heartwood in the middle.