Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: ssgtchad on March 26, 2013, 11:24:39 pm
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Here is my latest bow....#6. Its a rawhide backed bendy handled molly. The bow is 50" TTT, 48 ntn. The levers are short 6". The working portion of the limbs are 1.75" wide with the levers tapering to 3/8" with a 4 inch handle. She's pulling 60lbs at 25". After looking at the pictures a see the bottom limb is a bit stiff but I can live with it. The bow shoots really nice and hits HARD. The rawhide is covered with woodland camo print the army use to use. The bow is finished with several coats of tru-oil. This is my best effort yet, I know I still have allot to learn, but compaired to my first bow I've come along way. Thanks for looking comment pro or con are welcome.
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Forgot to mention tip overlays are bone. Sorry for crappy pictures had to edit them 3x lol :-\
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:o
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Cool ...tiller looks good enough for me....maybe take some meat off those short levers...being so short it only needs to be a couple hairs thicker than the thinnest point in your working limbs...
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Blackhawk thanks I might do that! Its already fast I could only imagine how much faster iit could get with less weight on the tips!
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Awesome bow man, 6th bow? Wish my sixth looked like that....and was osage. :) Like the colors too, what kind of rawhide did you use?
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Beautiful bow,very nice job. :)
Pappy
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Looks like a great bend and nice finish. Cammo not for me but would help hunting I guess.
Also looks like you are drawing out more than 25 so very cool 8)
Very little set too, very nice indeed :)
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Now that dog will hunt !!!!! that's very nice in all respects. Performance is suprising for that style, aint it?
rich
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Very cool little bow. I like the bend on that one.
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I would be very happy with that bow.
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Nice work. Bend looks darn good to me.
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I'm really likin those mollys. Great job on that one. Saw JonW's last weekend and it has me a thinkin. Danny
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I like it. I agree with what BH said about the levers but Its still a darn cool bow.
I have a short stave that I think I'll make a very similar design from. I've always like the idea of a short molly, and you executed that well.
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Sweet bend right there.
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Nice bends!
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Nice one! Tiller looks good!
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That'll be pretty easy to carry in the woods and should proove exceptionally lethal! I like the contrast between the belly color and the dark painted backing.
BTW - I really don't see the stiffness you mentioned in the lower limb. It looks pretty near perfect to me!
OneBow
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Nice bow & camo job.
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Love short bows:)
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Thanks everyone for your compliments. I'm hoping to get good enough for a horn bow. But for now I'm really pleased with this one. Man it really shoots nice. :D
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Good job! A lot of bend out of that shorty.
I also think you could reduce a little the levers, but anyways - great bow.
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It developed some serious hand shock about a month after posting. I noticed that the upper limb had a lateral bend that needed attention so I striped the rawhide off, steamed the corrections, and took blackhawks advise and trimmed some fat off the levers. This is how it came out. Leather die finish, and sealed with bee's wax. Hand shovk is gone and shoots much better.
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nice, i like that one.
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Whoa! That sucker is bending! Nice fix. Without those Mollie levers, that bow would stack something awful.
The lighter tips improved the hand shock I'd say. I have a hickory backed osage Holmegaard that would rattle your fillings loose. I re-worked and refined the tips as you did, and it's much sweeter to shoot. All you have to do is have enough wood that those levers don't bend. Anything else is just useless weight, and the tips are not a good place to have it.