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Title: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: Santanasaur on March 24, 2021, 08:55:01 am

White oak static recurve. 45# at 28” and 61” ntn. Tips are deer antler and the handle is buffalo leather tooled with antler tines and homemade stamps. The finish is built up tung oil and paste wax. This one was only heated once to straighten the limbs, otherwise  it was just dried and tillered near 7% mc. All in all it’s taken about a half inch set per limb holding 1.75” reflex after shooting.

Title: Re: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: Santanasaur on March 24, 2021, 08:58:21 am

a few more

Title: Re: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: Santanasaur on March 24, 2021, 09:00:23 am

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Title: Re: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: RyanY on March 24, 2021, 09:30:15 am

Looks like it turned out great. The sapwood rings look pretty thin. Love white oak though. Very pretty wood. That cambium on the back looks awesome.

Title: Re: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: Allyn T on March 24, 2021, 10:06:02 am

Beautiful bow

Title: Re: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: Parnell on March 24, 2021, 10:19:07 am

Beautiful work.  That white oak is very good looking.  I really like your handle wrap work.

Title: Re: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: WhistlingBadger on March 24, 2021, 12:20:54 pm

I love the antler tips.  Great looking bow.   :OK

Title: Re: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: Will B on March 24, 2021, 05:18:22 pm

Great bend and beautiful bow. Love those antler tip overlays and the look of the back of the bow. Great job!

Title: Re: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: PaSteve on March 24, 2021, 05:20:21 pm

Your tiller is always spot on. Very nice bow. Great pics too.

Title: Re: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: George Tsoukalas on March 24, 2021, 05:35:32 pm

Wow! That is an awesome bow. Well done. Jawge

Title: Re: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: bradsmith2010 on March 24, 2021, 06:11:04 pm

beautiful  congrats (-S

Title: Re: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: Weylin on March 24, 2021, 08:39:50 pm

Looks great, Dan! Love everything about it. what kind of leather do you use for your handles?

Title: Re: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: M2A on March 25, 2021, 05:51:57 am

Very clean looking bow! Impressive tiller.
Mike

Title: Re: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: Pappy on March 25, 2021, 09:24:14 am

Beautiful bow in all aspects, love your work. :)
 Pappy

Title: Re: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: eastcreekarchery on March 25, 2021, 02:54:41 pm

Ive got plenty of small diameter white oaks in my woods. Ill have to try it.

Title: Re: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: rps3 on March 26, 2021, 06:29:10 am

Beautifully bending bow.

Title: Re: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: Santanasaur on March 26, 2021, 10:11:10 am

Quote from: Weylin on March 24, 2021, 08:39:50 pm

Looks great, Dan! Love everything about it. what kind of leather do you use for your handles?

Thanks Weylin. I buy big pieces of veg-tan leather in a few thicknesses.  Recently I’ve been using a lot of buffalo because I got a good deal on an entire hide that was damaged. This piece is about 5-6 oz thick. For heavily tooled handles I like something a little thicker but if there is minimal tooling you can go thinner too.

Title: Re: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: bjrogg on March 27, 2021, 08:51:49 am

Very nicely done sir. Nice bend and beautiful bow.
Bjrogg

Title: Re: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: Bob Barnes on March 28, 2021, 12:42:38 am

just gotta love it...how did you put the curves in?

Title: Re: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: backtowood B2W on March 28, 2021, 07:08:24 am

Very nice bow! Especially the grain and handle catches my attention. Tiller also ;)

Title: Re: White oak static with antler tips and buffalo leather. 45#@28”
Post by: Santanasaur on March 29, 2021, 09:23:57 am

Quote from: Bob Barnes on March 28, 2021, 12:42:38 am

just gotta love it...how did you put the curves in?

Bob I steamed the limbs about 45 mins then bent on a 2” radius caul. I use a wallpaper steamer with heat resistant kitchen bags (made for for vacuum sealing food)  to hold in the steam. I usually keep a metal strip on there to hold splinters and chase a g ring on the belly side where the bend will be. Finally I lock the bend with a heat gun.

Here’s a static recurve buildalong of another bow where I used the same recurve caul. Bending starts around 5 minutes in  https://youtu.be/ye4GqWDGRak