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Offline Jodocus

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Re: Hazel Warbow + Full Draw Pic'
« Reply #15 on: April 25, 2015, 07:59:45 am »
Hazel rules!  8)
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Offline Marc St Louis

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Re: Hazel Warbow + Full Draw Pic'
« Reply #16 on: April 25, 2015, 02:00:39 pm »
Very nice Del.  I've made a few grimaces like that myself
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: Hazel Warbow + Full Draw Pic'
« Reply #17 on: April 25, 2015, 02:42:36 pm »
Cheers guys ;D
I make that face when I'm trying to get my socks on in the morning too :o.
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Hazel Warbow + Full Draw Pic'
« Reply #18 on: April 25, 2015, 07:48:12 pm »
Quote from: Del the cat on April 25, 2015, 02:42:36 pm
Cheers guys ;D
I make that face when I'm trying to get my socks on in the morning too :o.
Del

Yup. He does.

Looks like it will deliver the mail with right certain authority! Hooray for Hazel!
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Re: Hazel Warbow + Full Draw Pic'
« Reply #19 on: April 26, 2015, 02:45:32 am »
Totally brilliant work- that is an outlaws weapon right there! Does it rattle your bones when you loose?  :o
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Re: Hazel Warbow + Full Draw Pic'
« Reply #20 on: April 26, 2015, 03:17:01 am »
Quote from: sieddy on April 26, 2015, 02:45:32 am
Totally brilliant work- that is an outlaws weapon right there! Does it rattle your bones when you loose?  :o
It does need a heavy arrow to absorb the power, and you can see from the pic I've strapped up my left elbow as a precaution.
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Offline DC

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Re: Hazel Warbow + Full Draw Pic'
« Reply #21 on: April 26, 2015, 11:32:54 am »
Quote from: JW_Halverson on April 25, 2015, 07:48:12 pm

 Hooray for Hazel!

You must be as old as me
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Re: Hazel Warbow + Full Draw Pic'
« Reply #22 on: April 26, 2015, 01:44:21 pm »
Quote from: DC on April 26, 2015, 11:32:54 am
Quote from: JW_Halverson on April 25, 2015, 07:48:12 pm

 Hooray for Hazel!

You must be as old as me

Born old and getting younger by the day!
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Re: Hazel Warbow + Full Draw Pic'
« Reply #23 on: April 27, 2015, 02:17:12 am »

You must be as old as me
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I'm gonna save that one for future use! Getting younger by the day!

Nice looking bow Del. I've got a feeling that sometimes hazel is utterly bombproof when you find the right stave and other staves well they make nice kindling. Have you ever cut any that look great but once free from the tree almost float away!? Having a density of maybe 0.20 s.g.? I've cut a couple like that, although the rest of the branches were normal density. Hazel can be funny stuff.
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: Hazel Warbow + Full Draw Pic'
« Reply #24 on: April 27, 2015, 02:51:59 am »
Nope, I've not come across that phenomenon.
I have had some that, after a year seasoning, didn't look quite right and then went bang...
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Offline Heffalump

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Re: Hazel Warbow + Full Draw Pic'
« Reply #25 on: April 29, 2015, 10:55:12 am »
Soooooo, whaddaya reckon to the feasibility of a making me a 130# Hazel warbow for the Mary Rose competition in July then Del?

I only missed out by a few feet last year with a 116# yew......not wishing to sound xenophobic or anything, but I really would like to stick it to the Austrians if they come over again this year!  >:D >:D >:D

Yours aye,

John T.  8)
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: Hazel Warbow + Full Draw Pic'
« Reply #26 on: April 29, 2015, 11:05:53 am »
Have you tried the 130# Yew for distance???
Dunno if Hazel will meet Warbow spec'...
I'll see you at the bash on Sunday... I think maybe Elm is better than Hazel.... I do have the other half of the "Dennis Elmbow" log.
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Offline WillS

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Re: Hazel Warbow + Full Draw Pic'
« Reply #27 on: April 30, 2015, 04:45:10 am »
There's a couple of big hazel bows on the ewbs forum - Joe made a very twisty 140# hazel that outshot almost everything else, and one at 160#.  The 160# was 47mm x 38mm. 

I've just had one of my hazel bows blow up - looked at the splinters and there was blue/green rot running all the way through.  Couldn't see any sign of it from the outside!
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Re: Hazel Warbow + Full Draw Pic'
« Reply #28 on: April 30, 2015, 05:20:13 am »
Yeah, the one I did before this exploded, the wood just didn't look right, a sort of dull look and a greyish tinge.
I noticed it early on but ignored it  ::)  >:( ... stupid cat.
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