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Offline simk

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Dad's Yew
« on: July 14, 2018, 07:43:56 am »
May I present you my first own yew:

61,8 ntn
approx. 40# @ 28" (have no measuring device at the moment)
390 g

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Offline simk

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Re: Dad's Yew
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2018, 07:50:00 am »
My plan was a bit more draw weight, but...after tillering and mounting the nocks I realized that the handle wasn't centered and that the lower limb was longer than the upper one...had to retiller and cheat with the nocks @ the handle. It's become a nice recrational-training-bow now  8)
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Offline simk

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Re: Dad's Yew
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2018, 07:52:33 am »
It was a fairly perfect piece of wood - only had to remove quite lots of sapwood first...
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Offline Danzn Bar

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Re: Dad's Yew
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2018, 07:53:07 am »
Nice clean piece of Yew.
Would like to see more pics around the tips and definitely the full draw.
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Offline simk

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Re: Dad's Yew
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2018, 07:54:24 am »
Got a really nice shooter now  (-S
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Offline Danzn Bar

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Re: Dad's Yew
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2018, 07:55:11 am »
Thanks we were posting at the same time :)
Cool string nocks
DBar
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Offline simk

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Re: Dad's Yew
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2018, 07:55:11 am »
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Offline Badger

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Re: Dad's Yew
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2018, 08:33:45 am »
  That came out great, good job!
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Offline Stixnstones

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Re: Dad's Yew
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2018, 10:48:05 am »
Nothin wrong with that.. nice job
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: Dad's Yew
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2018, 11:09:37 am »
Sweet, love that style of bow :) Love that wood too :)
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Offline bjrogg

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Re: Dad's Yew
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2018, 01:27:05 pm »
Very nice Smik. Is it your dad's yew or his yew bow? I'm sure he's proud of it either way
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Offline BowEd

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Re: Dad's Yew
« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2018, 01:35:30 pm »
Sweet looking bow from a nice piece of yew.
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Offline selfbow joe

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Re: Dad's Yew
« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2018, 02:13:14 pm »
Very nice looking bow
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: Dad's Yew
« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2018, 06:59:57 pm »
Outstanding! Came out great!
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Offline Rākau

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Re: Dad's Yew
« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2018, 07:07:03 pm »
I really love those nocks! How wide is the limb just before the nock?
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