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Offline rps3

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Re: Broad banded vine maple bow
« Reply #30 on: February 01, 2016, 08:26:28 pm »
Awesome skins on a well bent bow. Still have to find a way to put some osage in the picture though huh?

Offline PNewton

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Re: Broad banded vine maple bow
« Reply #31 on: February 01, 2016, 08:51:01 pm »
Nice looking bow Clint. Looking forward to seeing it at Marshall.

Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Broad banded vine maple bow
« Reply #32 on: February 01, 2016, 08:58:06 pm »
Very nicely done,picture perfect!it doesn't look like you heat treated the belly?it holds a good bit of reflex indeed!

I heat tempered it at marshall.  I scraped away all of the darkened wood during the final tillering. 
I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left

Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Broad banded vine maple bow
« Reply #33 on: February 01, 2016, 08:59:16 pm »
Awesome skins on a well bent bow. Still have to find a way to put some osage in the picture though huh?

I can't help it with any woods pictures.  I wanted to make the arrow shelf out of osage but I resisted the urge and used leather.
I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left

Offline paulsemp

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Re: Broad banded vine maple bow
« Reply #34 on: February 01, 2016, 09:08:07 pm »
Real nice Clint I second the steel barrel test

Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Broad banded vine maple bow
« Reply #35 on: February 01, 2016, 09:46:30 pm »
It will get the steel barrel test for sure.  For you guys that were at Marshall last year you might remember the bow is the one I used to lock Blackhawk in the port-a-let.  He tried his best to break it getting out.  He actually put a few reflex cracks in it. 

I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left

Offline bubby

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Re: Broad banded vine maple bow
« Reply #36 on: February 01, 2016, 11:05:12 pm »
Now that's funny
failure is an option, everyone fails, it's how you handle it that matters.
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Offline Weylin

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Re: Broad banded vine maple bow
« Reply #37 on: February 01, 2016, 11:25:24 pm »
Sweet bow, Clint! I love those skins. Gotta love the prerequisite vine maple tiller disclaimers. I'm working on a vine maple right now that's going to need lots of disclamers. Are you going to change your user name after this? I guess vine maple outlaw doesn't have quite the same ring.  ;)

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Re: Broad banded vine maple bow
« Reply #38 on: February 01, 2016, 11:48:43 pm »
Wow! Thank you for not staining or doing anything to take any of the true white out of that wood. The contrast with those skins is perfect!

Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Broad banded vine maple bow
« Reply #39 on: February 02, 2016, 10:34:22 am »
I'm keeping my name Weylin.  It's still my favorite.


Chuck, I thought about staining it but I have stained the other white wood bows that I've made.  I kind of wanted one with a natural color. 
I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left

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Re: Broad banded vine maple bow
« Reply #40 on: February 02, 2016, 12:02:42 pm »
great job on the handle.

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Re: Broad banded vine maple bow
« Reply #41 on: February 02, 2016, 02:12:46 pm »
Good bow,the tiller looks good to me considering the stave.
I like the white colour, never saw a white bow before..might try one ( made a blue bow  once) ...is that paint?

the toilet stuff is weird tho :laugh:
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Broad banded vine maple bow
« Reply #42 on: February 02, 2016, 02:31:47 pm »
That's the natural color of the stave.  No paint. 

Trapping a Blackhawk in a port-a-let isn't very easy.
I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left

Offline H Rhodes

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Re: Broad banded vine maple bow
« Reply #43 on: February 02, 2016, 08:34:26 pm »
 Fine looking bow Clint.  how does it shoot?
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Broad banded vine maple bow
« Reply #44 on: February 02, 2016, 09:56:35 pm »
It shoots very smooth Howard
I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left