Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Matt S. on January 09, 2012, 11:14:42 am
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With the holidays I have barely stepped foot into my workshop, much less handled a bow for about a month. The past few days have happily changed that. I spent a couple hours yesterday shooting with a friend. He was happy to join me with his first bow.
Here I am shooting a Maple backed Black Cherry. This bow is light, only 30# draw weight, but was spitting out all my arrows with surprising speed, including the heavy 600+ grain arrows. It was also the most accurate bow, once again, no matter which arrow it was shooting.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bLyGunngMQg/TwrlUJAoWnI/AAAAAAAABUo/_cBtN-NxNtQ/s512/maplebackedcherry.jpg)
I finished this bow in December but need to get a few more photos of it before posting it up.
Here are a couple of photos of my friend and "student" Ben. Every week 3 guys come over for a bow making class. This is Ben's first bow, a red oak board bow. 72" tip-to-tip, semi-rigid handle, 50#@28" and about 3/4" set. He still has to finish the wood and make a handle for it.
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-HHMCp03bH_M/TwrlSkrdMGI/AAAAAAAABUo/ZrWMQDLFgjA/s512/bens_first2.jpg)
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--peeKFqgqzs/TwrlUYLpksI/AAAAAAAABUo/BVXQDVDC1Ok/s512/bens_first3.jpg)
His bow shoots really great and fast. I can't be too bad of a teacher (and he's an excellent student!!) with these results ;)
And finally, here's a shorty I just finished tillering and was trying to put a lot of arrows through it before committing to finishing it up. It's a 52" hickory that pulls about 46#@26". This is one of my first shorties but I think it came out pretty good. Took about 1-1/2" set, not bad IMHO.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-95ii8S_PbAs/TwrlTnFPJ2I/AAAAAAAABUo/CLGhG4Q-ADo/s512/Hickory-shorty-3.jpg)
Once these bows are "prettied up" I'll be posting them with better photos and more details.
Thanks for looking.
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Good looking bow,cool photos. :)
Pappy
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Nice couple of bows for sure. Well done to both of you.
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Very clean lines and great tiller.
Del
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Matt those are some great looking bows. The tiller on that first one is superb.
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Great job on those. looks like you guys had lots of fun.
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Nice lookin' bows
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nice bows glad to hear you doing classes .
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that cherry is beautiful... Very pretty wood...
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Thanks for all the compliments. Can't wait to get these finished up and posted.
We did have a lot of fun that afternoon. We had a cardboard target about 120 yards out and it was easily my best shooting judging from how consistent the arrows were landing.