Author Topic: Hawthorn bow (Read 1738 times)

ajooter · « **Reply #15 on:** June 11, 2025, 10:34:53 pm »

Nice looking bow love the character!

bentstick54 · « **Reply #16 on:** June 12, 2025, 12:00:23 am »

Love the gnarly ones Pappy. Great looking bow. Job well done.

Pappy · « **Reply #17 on:** June 12, 2025, 09:18:32 am »

Thanks guys.

Pappy

Parnell · « **Reply #18 on:** June 12, 2025, 10:51:33 am »

Nice job on that Pappy!

jameswoodmot · « **Reply #19 on:** June 13, 2025, 07:44:44 am »

Nice bow!

How did you find the hawthorn to work, did it want to tear out much? Ive carved it green a few times and remember it being hard and well behaved but it was a very straight and clean piece

Pappy · « **Reply #20 on:** June 13, 2025, 09:01:24 am »

It worked great, a lot like yew or ERC to me.

Of course I didn't chase a ring, just remover the outer bark and used the sap wood as the back.

Pappy

wooddamon1 · « **Reply #21 on:** June 13, 2025, 03:18:55 pm »

Sweet bow, Pappy!

WhistlingBadger · « **Reply #22 on:** June 16, 2025, 09:31:45 pm »

Cool looking bow, Pappy. We have some hawthorn in our hedge that scratches the daylights out of me when I try to trim the thing. Bet it makes a tough bow--That's a wood that can stand up for itself.

stuckinthemud · « **Reply #23 on:** June 24, 2025, 07:45:44 pm »

Don't suppose you know if US hawthorn is the same genus that grows in the UK? I have a few lovely staves of crataegus monogyna but there are conflicting opinions about British hawthorn as a bow wood, and, as it is a fabulous carving timber, I haven't been willing to use my carving stash on an experiment in case I turn a great piece of timber into a broken bow and a pile of shavings...just wondering

Badger · « **Reply #24 on:** June 24, 2025, 11:18:09 pm »

Love it! I like the tiller shape on that bow. Fast design if the wood can handle it and it looks like the hawthorne can handle it

Pappy · « **Reply #25 on:** June 25, 2025, 09:34:54 am »

Thanks guys, Stuckinthemud I am not sure if it is the same, this came from Ill. I think it will hold up Steve, very light in phy. weight and really springy. Not sure on the speed but seems very fast and good cast with a 500 grain arrow. Like I said reminds me a lot like Yew.
Pappy

Pat B · « **Reply #26 on:** June 25, 2025, 01:25:01 pm »

Stickinthemud, here in the US we have 4 or 5 different native hawthorns, all crataegous, and from what I've seen all quite curvy. It surprises me to see ones like Pappy used here. I've never found one with enough straight wood to build a bow. I do know it can be quite hard when dried.

Selfbowman · « **Reply #27 on:** June 25, 2025, 03:24:21 pm »

Looks like a shooter to me Mark! Well done!

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