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Offline swamp yeti

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Tobbacco stick black locust bow
« on: January 12, 2012, 02:54:02 pm »
Had been working on this one for a little bit.Back in september I was helping some buddies house tobbacco and found two black locust sticks for stringing tobbacco that might work for bows.The one I finished is a bend through the handle D style catawba bow,The bow is 59 inches tip to tip.inch and a quarter wide at the handle area and narrows down to 7 eights of an inch at the dovetail nocks.The bow is 50#@ 27 inches.
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Offline Qwill

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Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2012, 03:06:40 pm »
I love this style bow for Black Locust. I've made two, and both shoot great, and are faster than I thought they would be. Nice work scrounging the staves. Did you heat the belly at all? I've had good luck with that on Black Locust.
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Offline swamp yeti

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Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2012, 03:13:35 pm »
They were already heat treated from curing the tobbacco in the barn.
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Offline Elktracker

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Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2012, 03:19:49 pm »
Nice looking bow 8) Thats cool wonder if the tobbacco heat treat has any benafits :D

Josh
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my friends think my shops a mess, my wife thinks I have too much bow wood, my neighbors think im redneck white trash and they may all be right on the money!!

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Offline swamp yeti

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Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2012, 03:29:41 pm »
I don"t know either Elktracker but I guess I will find out later on down the road.
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Offline Elktracker

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Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2012, 03:33:06 pm »
 ;D
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my friends think my shops a mess, my wife thinks I have too much bow wood, my neighbors think im redneck white trash and they may all be right on the money!!

Josh Vance  Netarts OR. (Tillamook)

Offline jonathan creason

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Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2012, 04:00:21 pm »
That's just too cool for words.
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Offline okie64

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Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2012, 04:38:46 pm »
Nice lookin bow. Love that simple style.
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Offline Dictionary

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Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2012, 04:39:10 pm »
Quote from: okie64 on January 12, 2012, 04:38:46 pm
Nice lookin bow. Love that simple style.



agreed
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Offline swamp yeti

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Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2012, 04:44:31 pm »
Yea it is Jonathan,I didn"t think about the heat treating from the curing.Going to hang up some more wood in the barn next year.
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Offline swamp yeti

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Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2012, 08:58:25 pm »
Thanks for the compliments everybody.
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Offline soy

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Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2012, 11:20:56 pm »
Love a bow with a background story, looks real nice ;)
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Is this bow making a sickness? or the cure...

Offline Pat B

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Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
« Reply #12 on: January 13, 2012, 01:23:20 am »
Nice Yeti. Full draw looks very good. I love these Eastern Woodland style bows. They aren't as simple as they look.
  I have a walking stick a friend made for me from a tobacco stick. Not locust but it has the history in it like this bow. 
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Offline gmc

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Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
« Reply #13 on: January 13, 2012, 05:45:09 am »
Very nice, Yeti.

Guy at work just the other day was talking about his grandfather making Hickory bows out of tobacco stakes. I had one of those "I never thought of that" moments.

Good to see something similar posted.
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Re: Tobbacco stick black locust bow
« Reply #14 on: January 13, 2012, 07:16:18 am »
Very nice,I have a whole stack of sticks in my barn[ Dark fired] We raised it for years,if fact that's what paid for the farm. Best cash crop in TN. except Pot. ;) ;D ;D ;D Back to the bow,the tiller is sweet as usuall from you,way to use what you find. Very cool. :)
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