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Offline Mo_coon-catcher

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Osage Penobscot 50#@27”
« on: December 24, 2018, 01:46:02 pm »
Here’s the Penobscot I’ve been piddling with over the past year. I’m finally content with it and will call it finished. I had to make a second backer bow as the first didn’t have enough reflex to work with the bridges. It has a bit of thump but is really not too bad. Over all it shoots well and was interesting to mess with. I may try another bow that I’ve done one.
The main bow had extremely tight growth rings, with some spots a bit tighter than 1/64”. I got most of it pretty well but there was one spot that was next to a damaged area of the tree to I was having trouble with so I put a silk backing on to help reduce the possibility of splinters popping up in those spots. I think I had the main bow pulling about 30# at 27” before the backer bow was attached.

Thanks for looking,
Kyle
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Offline Mo_coon-catcher

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Re: Osage Penobscot 50#@27”
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2018, 01:46:36 pm »
And some more

Kyle
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Offline BowEd

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Re: Osage Penobscot 50#@27”
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2018, 03:03:51 pm »
Excellent accomplishment Mo paying attention to all the little details along with stating the increase in draw weight.Tiller looks spot on to me.
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Offline Stixnstones

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Re: Osage Penobscot 50#@27”
« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2018, 03:28:16 pm »
Great work...
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Offline Hawkdancer

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Re: Osage Penobscot 50#@27”
« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2018, 04:04:58 pm »
Looks real neat to me!  I may try one someday!
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Offline DC

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Re: Osage Penobscot 50#@27”
« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2018, 05:10:47 pm »
Cool! Can we have some closer pictures of the string anchors and tips, they look interesting. :D
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Offline Trapper Rob

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Re: Osage Penobscot 50#@27”
« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2018, 06:50:30 pm »
Good looking bow.
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Offline Knoll

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Re: Osage Penobscot 50#@27”
« Reply #7 on: December 24, 2018, 08:47:25 pm »
Looks like ya nailed that one. Congrats, Mr Kyle.
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Offline backtowood B2W

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Re: Osage Penobscot 50#@27”
« Reply #8 on: December 25, 2018, 01:45:17 am »
Wow! Very cool man, you are a talented guy with skills.
I guess this take some time to make
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: Osage Penobscot 50#@27”
« Reply #9 on: December 25, 2018, 02:08:39 am »
I'm not a fan of the Penobscot >:( , but I like the workmanship and attention to detail on your one :)
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Offline ohma2

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Re: Osage Penobscot 50#@27”
« Reply #10 on: December 25, 2018, 08:42:19 am »
Looks good Kyle
i made a friend one several years  ago he took it to wyoming on a hunt and the land owner liked it so much he left it with him at the and of the hunt .got a letter from the rancher a couple weeks later saying  i was welcome to come and hunt any time i wanted .guess thats passing it on.
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Offline bradsmith2010

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Re: Osage Penobscot 50#@27”
« Reply #11 on: December 25, 2018, 04:18:36 pm »
I was thinking that a bow like that could not be effecienet,, but if you had a bow that was too light, what would be a good way to put some weight on,, without adding much mass,, seems like,,if you go from 30 to 50 that got to shoot the arrow a bit harder,,
nice job on that one,, congrats,,
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Offline upstatenybowyer

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Re: Osage Penobscot 50#@27”
« Reply #12 on: December 25, 2018, 06:45:12 pm »
Nice work Mo.  8)
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Offline Mo_coon-catcher

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Re: Osage Penobscot 50#@27”
« Reply #13 on: December 27, 2018, 07:17:13 am »
Thanks everyone!
It was definitely interesting to build. And took a bit to figure out how much reflex the backer bow needed with the string bridges. It definitely did improve upon the base bow. The main bow was fairly slow and thunky. The wood almost acted rubber, you can see it in the limb oscillation in the slow mo video. But the backer bow pulled it up to about 170fps but retained the vibration.
I’m not a huge fan yet, but I’m definitely going to try another and refine it a bit.

Kyle
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Offline simk

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Re: Osage Penobscot 50#@27”
« Reply #14 on: January 01, 2019, 09:42:05 am »
Splendid job on those! Seems 2018 was a successful bow year at your place - looking forward 2019!
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