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Title: Sinew Backed Black Locust
Post by: jason5881 on April 01, 2010, 10:12:38 pm

60" ntn, 1.5" at handle, 1.75" at beginning of fade, about 3/4" thick tips, one thin course of sinew, two black locust billets spliced at handle. I left the limbs wide all the way to the tips becuase I was afraid of chrysaling such as everyone says happens to black locust.

The chunk of wood I had was 40" long, 1.5" wide, and 2 inches deep. So I ripped it on an angle, so that I could get two billets out of the thickness. That made it necessary to back the bow, as well as splice the handle.

Splice was done using smooth on.

I really think I nailed the tiller on this one, took me a couple hours to do it, enjoy pics.

Also, the back started a slight mildew problem, so I put it in a hot box at 130 degrees for a day to try to kill the mold. I gained about ten pounds of weight, and didn't feel comfortable drawing it all the way back, so pics are two-three inches short of full draw.

Jason

<a href="http://s594.photobucket.com/albums/tt28/Mithradates/Sinew%20Backed%20Black%20Locust/?action=view&current=DSC05685.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i594.photobucket.com/albums/tt28/Mithradates/Sinew%20Backed%20Black%20Locust/DSC05685.jpg" border="0" alt="SBL full draw"></a>

<a href="http://s594.photobucket.com/albums/tt28/Mithradates/Sinew%20Backed%20Black%20Locust/?action=view&current=DSC05683.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i594.photobucket.com/albums/tt28/Mithradates/Sinew%20Backed%20Black%20Locust/DSC05683.jpg" border="0" alt="SBL Splice"></a>

<a href="http://s594.photobucket.com/albums/tt28/Mithradates/Sinew%20Backed%20Black%20Locust/?action=view&current=DSC05682.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i594.photobucket.com/albums/tt28/Mithradates/Sinew%20Backed%20Black%20Locust/DSC05682.jpg" border="0" alt="SBL Brace"></a>

Title: Re: Sinew Backed Black Locust
Post by: jason5881 on April 01, 2010, 10:15:20 pm

Sorry guys, you'll have to click the links.... :-\

Title: Re: Sinew Backed Black Locust
Post by: sonny on April 01, 2010, 10:17:56 pm

(http://i594.photobucket.com/albums/tt28/Mithradates/Sinew%20Backed%20Black%20Locust/DSC05685.jpg)

Title: Re: Sinew Backed Black Locust
Post by: sonny on April 01, 2010, 10:21:19 pm

Jason, you can copy the image code from photobucket and insert it using the insert image button above the reply box.
sounded simple when I was writing it.....

(http://i594.photobucket.com/albums/tt28/Mithradates/Sinew%20Backed%20Black%20Locust/DSC05682.jpg)
(http://i594.photobucket.com/albums/tt28/Mithradates/Sinew%20Backed%20Black%20Locust/DSC05683.jpg)



never mind, did it for you.
 

Title: Re: Sinew Backed Black Locust
Post by: Pat B on April 01, 2010, 11:59:56 pm

You are right Jason, You nailed the tiller!  ;)  Very nice bow.  8)

Title: Re: Sinew Backed Black Locust
Post by: Pappy on April 02, 2010, 06:41:37 am

Nice bow. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: Sinew Backed Black Locust
Post by: Dean Marlow on April 02, 2010, 09:05:06 am

Vry nice bow Jason. You really nailed the tiller on that one.

Title: Re: Sinew Backed Black Locust
Post by: TRACY on April 02, 2010, 09:57:34 am

Tight splice, very nice bow

Tracy

Title: Re: Sinew Backed Black Locust
Post by: Hillbilly on April 02, 2010, 10:49:30 am

Good looking bow!

Title: Re: Sinew Backed Black Locust
Post by: Bullitt on April 02, 2010, 01:59:34 pm

Great job! Love that black locust!

Title: Re: Sinew Backed Black Locust
Post by: Josh on April 02, 2010, 02:21:17 pm

that is a beautiful bow!  Great job on getting 2 limbs from such a small piece of wood.   :)

Title: Re: Sinew Backed Black Locust
Post by: Orkraider on April 02, 2010, 10:34:00 pm

sweet bow, man, very nice.

Title: Re: Sinew Backed Black Locust
Post by: ricktrojanowski on April 03, 2010, 07:41:49 am

Nice job, the tiller looks really good.  Also good thinking on getting so much bow out of so little wood.

Title: Re: Sinew Backed Black Locust
Post by: OldBow on April 03, 2010, 01:26:36 pm

Excellent Z-Joint! Got your fine weapon bookmarked under April Self Bows for BOM, too.

Title: Re: Sinew Backed Black Locust
Post by: Justin Snyder on April 03, 2010, 03:01:46 pm

Great looking bow. The tiller in great.
If you use the bottom link IMG Code from photobucket it will show here without you doing anything else.

Title: Re: Sinew Backed Black Locust
Post by: jason5881 on April 03, 2010, 07:13:25 pm

HI Justin, thanks for the info, I'll do that in the future

OldBow, just wondering, since this is sinew backed, is it still considered a selfbow?  Don't want to rock the boat, just wondering how things are done....

All, thanks for the comments. I can finally get it back to full draw again.  Later this evening I'll post a couple more pics and also the narrow hickory bow I made.

Take care,

Jason

Title: Re: Sinew Backed Black Locust
Post by: FlintWalker on April 04, 2010, 02:44:15 pm

Outstanding tiller! Creative thinking too ;)