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Offline Almostpighunter

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Crooked, Gnarled, Knotty, Twisted & full of Holes Bow (pics corrected!)
« on: February 11, 2013, 12:56:03 am »
Well if the title doesn't tell the story....

Osage orange selfbow with a slight static reflex in the last 1/4 of the limbs and plenty of character to keep the build interesting. Crooked, twisted limbs that made it necessary to offset the string grooves and a half dozen knots fully decayed through that enabled those awesome holes that I have always loved seeing in finished bows.

60" T2T (58" n2n) pulling 55#@29". Shooting off the hand. The grip is the back skin of some kind of monitor lizard, I think maybe a water monitor, that croaked (no pun intended) at the local herp store where the owner was nice enough to hold on to the carcass for me. As the skin wasn't wide enough to go around the entire handle, I topped it with some scrap leather and I cut out a "window" to reveal the lizard skin pattern.

Shoots hard, fast and straight. I'm going to put it through the chronie test later this week and will update.

Enjoy.
« Last Edit: February 11, 2013, 12:30:53 pm by Almostpighunter »
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Offline Almostpighunter

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Re: Crooked, Gnarled, Knotty, Twisted and full of Holes Bow (pic heavy w/ draw)
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2013, 01:10:03 am »
Don't know why my computer loads these sideways, but here are the full draw and some others.
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Crooked, Gnarled, Knotty, Twisted and full of Holes Bow (pic heavy)
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2013, 01:35:06 am »
Nice work.  Impressive little character bow.  The handle work is unique, I like that. 
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Re: Crooked, Gnarled, Knotty, Twisted and full of Holes Bow (pic heavy)
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2013, 01:51:01 am »
That's awesome.  I love the colors on the belly of it.  Great job.
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Offline bubby

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Re: Crooked, Gnarled, Knotty, Twisted and full of Holes Bow (pic heavy)
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2013, 05:03:01 am »
nice bow aph,, take them to paint and rotate them, my new puter turns them the right way when I load them, but the old one I had to do it , Bub
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Offline danny f

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Re: Crooked, Gnarled, Knotty, Twisted and full of Holes Bow (pic heavy)
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2013, 06:11:05 am »
thats a beauty love the character in that one, and the colour of that osage is real nice.
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Offline dwardo

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Re: Crooked, Gnarled, Knotty, Twisted and full of Holes Bow (pic heavy)
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2013, 06:43:05 am »
Lovely character bow.
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Offline Markus

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Re: Crooked, Gnarled, Knotty, Twisted and full of Holes Bow (pic heavy)
« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2013, 07:06:05 am »
Looooking gooood. :) Markus.
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Re: Crooked, Gnarled, Knotty, Twisted and full of Holes Bow (pic heavy)
« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2013, 08:06:15 am »
Sweet,that's a beauty. :)
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Offline MWirwicki

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Re: Crooked, Gnarled, Knotty, Twisted and full of Holes Bow (pic heavy)
« Reply #9 on: February 11, 2013, 08:45:06 am »
Nice work on that challenging piece.  It amazes me what we're are able to do with what some might have called firewood.
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« Reply #10 on: February 11, 2013, 09:06:41 am »
Sweet bow and very nice work.
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Re: Crooked, Gnarled, Knotty, Twisted and full of Holes Bow (pic heavy)
« Reply #11 on: February 11, 2013, 09:16:34 am »
I'd say your title is right on, but she's a looker now!! :)
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Offline Parnell

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Re: Crooked, Gnarled, Knotty, Twisted and full of Holes Bow (pic heavy)
« Reply #12 on: February 11, 2013, 09:18:30 am »
That's a beauty and I really like your handle work.  Curious about the string knocks though, did you violate the back ring?  Any concern with that?

Beautiful piece of wood.
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Offline Keenan

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Re: Crooked, Gnarled, Knotty, Twisted and full of Holes Bow (pic heavy)
« Reply #13 on: February 11, 2013, 11:23:48 am »
Awesome bow! Love the character bumps and holes as well as the very unique grip wrap.  Top notch all the way. Congratulations
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Offline Lyagooshka

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Re: Crooked, Gnarled, Knotty, Twisted and full of Holes Bow (pic heavy)
« Reply #14 on: February 11, 2013, 11:33:05 am »
That is a beautiful bow.  Truly love the "natural" design.  WOW!   ;D
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