Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: SLIMBOB on August 12, 2012, 03:11:53 pm
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Hey guys, been out of pocket for a bit, but found a few days to finish one up (almost). Hackberry, 62" ttt. 2" at the fades tapers to 1 3/4" mid limb and then tapers sharply to 3/8" tips. 27" draw, 47 lbs. horn tip overlays. I will put a brain tan handle wrap and horn strike plat on today. It started out as a 70" mollie, but limitations with the stave caused me to change it up early on. Ended up with a semi pyramid/Meare Heath hybrid I guess. Shot 100 or so arrows out of it the last few days. Really sweet shooter.
Had a little scrap brain tan (too much work goes into it to consider any of it "scrap") just the right size. Added a little vermilion to color it up a bit. Really like the way it shoots.
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Nice job, Slim!
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Oh Lordee, me likee, me likee plentee!
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Like me some hackberry........looks good.
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Yea!! Great job :)
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Looking good Slim! Like the style and bend. I got one in the works that is slighty longer with a couple inches of reflex.
Tracy
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Thanks! I'll post more pics when I finish the handle.
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Looks good,I like that style, I use that design a lot. Nice job. :)
Pappy
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Lookin good Slimbob, like that nearly flat unbraced profile and the tiller as well looks nice.
Greg
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Nicely done sir! Hackberry grain sure is purty with a little color added. Josh
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Nice job on that bow. I would like to see it all done.
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Thanks for all the kind comments. I have seen a lot of really awesome bows from all of you guys. Really inspiring stuff you know what I mean? The friend that showed me how to make bows back in the mid 90's (he was making them before the TBB's) came down for the weekend. He couldn't believe I was making them out of Hackberry. He has made countless bows from bois d'ark, hickory, ash, elm, chokecherry and a few others, but Hackberry? Well, we made him 2 plains style Hackberry bows over the weekend. 48", 45lbs, 23" draw. Both about an inch and a quarter wide. 105 degrees every day, but what's a little heat when there are bows to build, and friends to build them with. Wow.
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Looks great Slim! I'm working on an ash bow would like my handle to look as nice as yours. Would you mind sharing dimensions on the handle and into the fades?
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The handle is 5" long, 1" wide and about 1 3/8" deep. The middle of the handle is slightly crowned (on the belly) at 1 1/2" deep. 2" fades and the limbs are 2" wide at the fades. Good luck with it.
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Thank you sir! Have fun shooting that great looking bow.
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Looks great all finished up Slimbob really like that handle wrap. Sounds like you had a good weekend of bow building and it's great that
you turned your friend onto hackberry as a bow wood. Made a few from hackberry myself and also think it is good bow wood. Nice work
on your bow.
Greg
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look's great slimbob, got me a pc of hackberry, this gives me some motivation to get to work on it, soon as i get the billet's i got from pearlie done, Bub
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look's great slimbob, got me a pc of hackberry, this gives me some motivation to get to work on it, soon as i get the billet's i got from pearlie done, Bub
You better get movin' before I fly out and take em' back bub!
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Pearlie you know i ain't no speed bowyer, you build bows like a spyder monkey on mt. dew >:D
Bub
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sweet looking bow there.
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All right Slim,,,,,,,,,,,, I'm tacking this on to your thread. I know,,,,,,,,,, my bows are not the show pieces that yours are, but they are not supposed to be (a built in excuse). They are just a couple of simple plains style self bows. These two hackberry bows came out of the same stave. They are 48 inches long, and pull about 45 pounds at 24 inches. Each has a double nock on the lower limb, and single nock on the upper. These were easy to build in comparison to the bois d arc that I usually use.
CC
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Very cool Curt. Tolja Hackberry was good bow wood. I like the paint. Looks like red ocher on one and some kinda green pigment on the other. Show pieces, mine??? Have you seen some of the bows on this forum? I'm always playing from behind. Glad you finished 'em, enjoyed helpin'.
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Great looking bow there Slimbob! I love the handle wrap. ;)