Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: akbowman on April 30, 2009, 12:00:04 pm
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I am planning to make a bamboo backed hickory bow and am curious if anyone has any good ideas for stains or cools stuff you can do to color the bamboo. I have made a couple bbh in the past and just left the bamboo natural color which i really like, but i was wanting to try something a little different. I have seen posts on here in the past with some really cool colored bamboo backing, but cant find em. Any ideas or techniques would be appriciated.
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Bamboo takes alcohol based stains really well. I use leather dye.
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I will echo leather dye. It comes in a variety of colors and is easy to find. Go to American Leather on line they carry a large selection of colors and types. Good luck
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there was a post on here maybe a year ago or so that had a bamboo backing, think it might of been a build-along, but the bow was looking awsome then all of a sudden in the next picture the bamboo was a florescent green or chartreuse, and i thought the builder had lost his mind but then he did something else to it and it ended up being a beautiful emerald green color with dark streaks in it. Does anyone remember this post? or who the builder was?
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No but I would love to know how it was done......
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I remember seeing that bow. and yes the green looked really cool. but I can't remember who posted it. Sorry
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It was prolly Joe Don Jones of Genisis Bows, he does outstanding work. He can make bamboo look like fiddleback maple.
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It also may have been from James (Robustus) Parker with Huntworthy Productions.
From his website
(http://www.huntworthyproductions.com/boo_strips_066.jpg)