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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: sleek on December 24, 2012, 03:07:48 am

Title: Spliced handle red mulberry
Post by: sleek on December 24, 2012, 03:07:48 am

Here is a simple scarf joint spliced deflexed in the handle with flipped tips red mulberry bow. The backing is silk with many coats of true oil to a mirror finish. I applied a thin coat of watered down TBIII that made it yellow as a base. Never again. The silk was not needed, I just thought the sapwood back was ugly as hell, so I covered it. The bow is 66 inches tip to tip, 40#@28", and is probably the most sweet shooting bow, so smooth to pull back, I have ever made. Also the only deflexed handle I ever made... coincidence? I bet Blackhawk would say not!

One note on the handle scarf. When you clamp those two haves together, the glue will allow the halves to slip. It help to drill a little dimple on the inside of the splice on both halves and insert a little BB, to lock the halves together under a clamp so they dont slip.

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Title: Re: Spliced handle red mulberry
Post by: bubby on December 24, 2012, 03:10:58 am

look's like a winner, Bub

Title: Re: Spliced handle red mulberry
Post by: BowEd on December 24, 2012, 09:39:04 am

You can hardly see your splice.Nice job.

Title: Re: Spliced handle red mulberry
Post by: lesken2011 on December 24, 2012, 09:45:04 am

Another nice one, Sleek. You have sure been busy!!

Title: Re: Spliced handle red mulberry
Post by: blackhawk on December 24, 2012, 09:48:37 am

Looks like an day shooter to me sleekster...did you use titebond for the scarf joint?

Title: Re: Spliced handle red mulberry
Post by: Badly Bent on December 24, 2012, 09:54:20 am

Nice work Sleek! That baby is polished and certainly does look to be a smooth shooter.
Greg

Title: Re: Spliced handle red mulberry
Post by: George Tsoukalas on December 24, 2012, 09:57:42 am

Nice splice. Good job. Jawge

Title: Re: Spliced handle red mulberry
Post by: sleek on December 24, 2012, 03:22:25 pm

Thanks guys! And yes, you can shoot that bow all day long. Just holding it in your hand, you feel the confidence in it to just know you can hit any mark. Blackhawk, yes that is tightbondIII. Love that stuff.