Primitive Archer

Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Kidder on December 05, 2020, 12:19:28 pm

Title: Saturday morning’s hickory bow
Post by: Kidder on December 05, 2020, 12:19:28 pm

Just finished my most recent bow. It’s 66 tip to tip from a hickory board with hickory riser. It pulls 58lbs at 29 inches (although I’m only pulling 26) I’ll give this one to a friend of mine who is a woodworker who I’ve had rip my boards for me. For tip overlays I ended up using cocobolo wood. I opted to inlay buffalo horn for the strike plate. The rest is made of cork with a glue on felt pad. The grip is veg tan leather that was dyed with two coats of fiebing’s mahogany leather dye and one coat of fiebing’s leather wax with atom balm. It was glued down and stitched on the back. During the tillering process the bow picked up two longitudinal cracks. I filled them as best I could with ca and then opted to wrap them with mule deer leg sinew to try to ensure that no lateral tension causes them to run. I kind of like the look of the sinew wrap and it’s rewarding to use a product from an animal I harvested. It picked up a little more set than my last bow, which I feel may have been a result of how slow I tillered this bow - I’d estimate I took at least 30 trips to the tillering rack. The string is 14 strands of B55. Most importantly this is the best shooting bow I’ve build, by far - minimal hand shock, accurate, consistent, quiet, fast, and the arrow seems to slide along the strike plate without kicking off of it. Thanks for looking.

Title: Re: Saturday morning’s hickory bow
Post by: Kidder on December 05, 2020, 12:22:49 pm

Couple more

Title: Re: Saturday morning’s hickory bow
Post by: Kidder on December 05, 2020, 12:24:04 pm

And the money shot...

Title: Re: Saturday morning’s hickory bow
Post by: Flntknp17 on December 05, 2020, 12:32:58 pm

Fantastic!  I love the elegance of simplicity done so well.  It does look like a trouble free bow that will shoot well for years.

Well done.

Matt

Title: Re: Saturday morning’s hickory bow
Post by: Del the cat on December 05, 2020, 12:33:31 pm

Nice work, the two sinew bindings look very tidy :)
Looks & sounds like a very comfortable grip too.
Del

Title: Re: Saturday morning’s hickory bow
Post by: George Tsoukalas on December 05, 2020, 01:09:32 pm

Well done. Very nice. Jawge

Title: Re: Saturday morning’s hickory bow
Post by: Pat B on December 05, 2020, 01:29:25 pm

Nice hickory stick.  :OK

Title: Re: Saturday morning’s hickory bow
Post by: bjrogg on December 05, 2020, 03:00:01 pm

Nicely done. Bend looks really nice. Looks like your set is distributed pretty evenly.

Bjrogg

Title: Re: Saturday morning’s hickory bow
Post by: PaSteve on December 05, 2020, 03:58:06 pm

That bow looks excellent. Well done.

Title: Re: Saturday morning’s hickory bow
Post by: RyanY on December 05, 2020, 07:43:58 pm

Great job. I love hickory.

Title: Re: Saturday morning’s hickory bow
Post by: Bob Barnes on December 05, 2020, 08:32:05 pm

It looks like it wants to hunt... excellent full draw profile.   :OK

Title: Re: Saturday morning’s hickory bow
Post by: Kidder on December 06, 2020, 10:23:46 am

Thanks everyone! I’ve got one more like this I intend to build and then gonna start flexing some staves or maybe slap some bamboo backed hickory together. Fun either way!

Title: Re: Saturday morning’s hickory bow
Post by: Morgan on December 06, 2020, 02:52:31 pm

I like that. You did a good job on that bow.

Title: Re: Saturday morning’s hickory bow
Post by: bentstick54 on December 06, 2020, 08:22:35 pm

Very nice.

Title: Re: Saturday morning’s hickory bow
Post by: Hrothgar on December 07, 2020, 05:11:44 am

Good tiller, nice finish work!

Title: Re: Saturday morning’s hickory bow
Post by: Pappy on December 07, 2020, 06:32:38 am

Nice job, I am sure your friend will love it. :)
 Pappy

Title: Re: Saturday morning’s hickory bow
Post by: MM2 on December 07, 2020, 08:49:44 am

Wow, excellent bow! Congratulation!

And thank's for sharing.

Michael