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Offline Kent D.

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New osage, Ipe, bamboo quad lam.
« on: March 08, 2011, 09:26:39 pm »
Finally got a chance to finish this bow up.  Cut the osage two years ago and ground the lams last year.  Glued it all up last fall and just recently got a chance to tiller it out and shape it.  Its a bamboo backed, quad lam (boo, ipe, osage, ipe), R/D long bow, 64" ntn, 68# @ 28".  I laminated the tips with elk antler, osage, and whitetail deer antler.    She will really spit an arrow. 

















« Last Edit: March 28, 2011, 09:22:58 pm by Kent D. aka burnie »

Offline Ifrit617

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Re: New osage, Ipe, bamboo quad lam.
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2011, 09:42:52 pm »
Awesome... I like that alot.....

Offline gstoneberg

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Re: New osage, Ipe, bamboo quad lam.
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2011, 01:22:44 am »
I like it too, especially those tips.

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Offline hammertime

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Re: New osage, Ipe, bamboo quad lam.
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2011, 01:39:48 am »
Really, nice ,like how you did the tips,that bow must really spit the arrows,awesome work and thanks for sharing-Hammertime

Offline sharpend60

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Re: New osage, Ipe, bamboo quad lam.
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2011, 03:21:54 am »
Those tips are crazy.

Way to do something different.

Do they cause any noticeable hand shock? Seems like they could be heavy.

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Re: New osage, Ipe, bamboo quad lam.
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2011, 09:45:20 am »
Beautiful bow,very nice finish work and tiller looks dead on.  :)
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Offline Timo

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Re: New osage, Ipe, bamboo quad lam.
« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2011, 10:50:23 am »
Pretty bow! Lots of work in that one.

Offline Kent D.

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Re: New osage, Ipe, bamboo quad lam.
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2011, 11:26:48 am »
Those tips are crazy.

Way to do something different.

Do they cause any noticeable hand shock? Seems like they could be heavy.


Thanks everyone

Before I ever laminated the tips that way, I weighed the materials before glueing on, and before shapeing, it was lighter than ipe bamboo, and osage of equal volume.  In other words, less dense than the limb tips would be if I had left another two inches of ipe,boo,and osage on the limb.  So I went ahead and put them on.  As far as hand shock.  Not much at all.  The bow is very smooth. 

Offline Parnell

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Re: New osage, Ipe, bamboo quad lam.
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2011, 11:44:32 am »
Beautiful bow.
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Re: New osage, Ipe, bamboo quad lam.
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2011, 03:17:53 pm »
"He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart"  C.S. Lewis

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Re: New osage, Ipe, bamboo quad lam.
« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2011, 03:20:58 pm »
I like everything about this bow but that one tip overlay looks dangerously close to the limb tip. That would scare me!  :o
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC

Offline Kent D.

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Re: New osage, Ipe, bamboo quad lam.
« Reply #11 on: March 09, 2011, 03:40:59 pm »
I like everything about this bow but that one tip overlay looks dangerously close to the limb tip. That would scare me!  :o

Thanks.   I made sure the string follows the limb.  Even at full draw,  the string has 1/4 of the limb under it to support it.  I made sure not to support the string with just the tips.
« Last Edit: March 09, 2011, 10:21:55 pm by Kent D. aka burnie »

Offline eflanders

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Re: New osage, Ipe, bamboo quad lam.
« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2011, 07:28:19 pm »
Nice!

Offline Kent D.

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Re: New osage, Ipe, bamboo quad lam.
« Reply #13 on: March 18, 2011, 01:47:41 pm »
Thanks eflanders


Ive put countless arrows through her and think I have found my favorite bow.  Lots of power and shoots like a dream.  Ill be taking her out in the next two weeks for a hog hunt.  Ill keep you all posted. 
« Last Edit: March 18, 2011, 01:51:24 pm by Kent D. aka burnie »

Offline bigcountry

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Re: New osage, Ipe, bamboo quad lam.
« Reply #14 on: March 18, 2011, 02:43:59 pm »
Kent, you are the man.  I love your bows. 

Do you ever have issues tillering a bow like where you almost go thru one of your lams to get it right?  Or is it like a glass bow and almost tillered after glue up?
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