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blackhawk

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Re: My best stave so far.....
« Reply #15 on: April 01, 2013, 09:00:49 pm »
I love the bend resistance in locust...and yes if you can keep it as healthy as possible it will make a smoking fast bow...you know executing design and tiller are the KEY to unlocking locusts awesome potential...I love black locust ;) hope you have enough width for 5" of starting setback ...that's a lot for locust,and the most I'll go with it

Offline Red Tailed Hawk

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Re: My best stave so far.....
« Reply #16 on: April 01, 2013, 09:55:29 pm »
come on pics!!!! This sounds like a sweet one.

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« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2013, 10:25:44 pm »
come on pics!!!! This sounds like a sweet one.


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« Reply #18 on: April 02, 2013, 03:37:51 am »








So here it is (finally!!), black locust reflex deflex recurve , 51lbs @ 26, suede handle from my ex girlfriends horse riding chaps, cocobolo overlays, round horn arrowpass, finished with a 'customised' mix of oils.....and boy oh boy is she fast fast fast!
The limbs are 1 3/4 out of the fades for 6 inches or so then tapers into 1 inch and then to 3/8ths for the nocks.
I'll do a chrono test later on today  ;)


Offline nathan elliot

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Re: My best stave so far.....
« Reply #19 on: April 02, 2013, 04:32:58 am »
You mean your ex girlfriend is walking around with a handle shape hole in her chaps?! About the bow though, I can see why you said it was your best stave! Really clean looking, you really did it justice! Is this one for keeps?

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Re: My best stave so far.....
« Reply #20 on: April 02, 2013, 04:37:19 am »
Hehe! No, one day she said 'can you use these?' 'yup' was the reply!
Yes I think this one is a keeper, it shoots soooo well you barely even know you've let go of the string  ;D

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Re: My best stave so far.....
« Reply #21 on: April 02, 2013, 04:46:35 am »
Nice one Mike, I always think 50# is a good useable draw weight and she's pretty too :-*
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Offline dwardo

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Re: My best stave so far.....
« Reply #22 on: April 02, 2013, 06:09:55 am »
Great profile and full draw Mike very nice!

blackhawk

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« Reply #23 on: April 02, 2013, 07:40:03 am »
Cool...looks smooth to me

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Re: My best stave so far.....
« Reply #24 on: April 02, 2013, 07:44:32 am »
Good looking bow,should be smooth and fast. :)
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Offline Badly Bent

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Re: My best stave so far.....
« Reply #25 on: April 02, 2013, 08:22:31 am »
That is one smoking hot curvy locust bow there. Real nice and no doubt a pleasure to shoot.
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« Reply #26 on: April 02, 2013, 08:55:22 am »
Nice bends on that one! ;)
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Re: My best stave so far.....
« Reply #27 on: April 02, 2013, 09:53:16 am »
Beautiful......

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Re: My best stave so far.....
« Reply #28 on: April 02, 2013, 09:07:21 pm »
hey Mike,
THAT is a real beauty for sure. I'd be totally unnerved doing that much extreme steam bend at the tips,
but your end result is awesome.
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: My best stave so far.....
« Reply #29 on: April 03, 2013, 12:11:44 am »
That looks like a sweet shooting bow.  It is nice when they finish up shooting like that.   Very nice work. 
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the mono chord, the initial rune of fine art
The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and..." Maurice Thompso