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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: akila on January 02, 2013, 05:09:30 pm

Title: Ash R/D bow...
Post by: akila on January 02, 2013, 05:09:30 pm

Hello....today i  finished another bow...its a board bow...i had this piece of wood, for aboute 4 years, it  wass 1" wide, so i said to my self, to  try to make  a R/D bow...so here it is..its 61" long, 1" wide  for all most the entire lenght...its has some taper, where the reflex starts, and at the noks its verry narrow as u will see in the picture..it pulls 38 lbs @ 29.5".....i didnt do anithing fanci on the finish....just linseed oil, and thats all...:)
(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x212/Akila_07/P1020054_zps0580cae9.jpg)
(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x212/Akila_07/P1020059_zpsee9de103.jpg)
(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x212/Akila_07/P1020061_zps790ac299.jpg)
(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x212/Akila_07/P1020062_zps0281d498.jpg)
(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x212/Akila_07/P1020066_zpsf1231e84.jpg)
(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x212/Akila_07/P1020071_zps14cca026.jpg)
(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x212/Akila_07/P1020074_zpsc26e85e5.jpg)
(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x212/Akila_07/P1020075_zps20ac2b9a.jpg)
(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x212/Akila_07/P1020077_zpsb893a369.jpg)
(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x212/Akila_07/P1020080_zps6ebfb4b1.jpg)

Title: Re: Ash R/D bow...
Post by: autologus on January 02, 2013, 06:05:58 pm

looks nice, I live the nocks.

Grady

Title: Re: Ash R/D bow...
Post by: Badly Bent on January 02, 2013, 10:27:14 pm

Nice curvy bow and those tips are slim and graceful. Fine looking bow akila.  :)
Greg

Title: Re: Ash R/D bow...
Post by: doulosparachristos on January 03, 2013, 12:12:13 am

Absolute perfect profile on that bow; i love the curves.

Title: Re: Ash R/D bow...
Post by: Pat B on January 03, 2013, 12:30:45 am

Very cool bow and the tips are almost scarry. I love the look of ash but have terrible luck with it. You sure got those curves opening nicely at full draw.   8)

Title: Re: Ash R/D bow...
Post by: akila on January 03, 2013, 06:32:20 am

Thanks alot for your compliments...actualy, at the start, i had much mor reflex in those tips, but, at some point, i wanted to put a little moore reflex, just to the last 2" from the tip, and some splinter pop up, so i had to thinn down a little   the last 12" from the tip, so, this is why i lost some reflex...this is why the bow looks like it has set, but actualy, that just the deflex, that i wass put in there, from the start, steaming the bow...well...this is it...this is whatt happents, whenn u are trying to do moore...sometimes MOORE,  is the BAD, , for GOOD... :-\

Title: Re: Ash R/D bow...
Post by: Del the cat on January 03, 2013, 10:03:11 am

Nice bow... sounds very much like my experience of Ash.
Del