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Offline OldBow

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Pete Clayton's August Bow is Self Bow of the Year for 2009
« on: January 12, 2010, 06:28:55 pm »
Congratulations to Pete Clayton of Whitehouse, Texas
His Slippery Elm Recurve is 2009 Self Bow of the Year
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,14604.0.html
From Pete:Just finished this bow (in time for August BOM), and gave the tru-oil a week to cure,braced it today,shot a few through it ,and took some pictures.
Slippery Elm   ,65" tip to tip,63 1/2" nock to nock  ,  1 7/16" at fades,slightly tapering to 1 3/8" near mid-limb,then tapering to 3/8" tips,with osage overlays.
Scarlet Rit dye on tips,walnut stain on rest of bow.Western diamondback skins.dyed calfskin grip,heat treated.This is my first Elm recurve,and I really like this design with this wood.it is very smooth to draw and shoot,and has excellent speed. It's 60# @28",and came out of a 4" diameter tree.I've got 8 pictures so I'll put 4 on this one ,and post another.  God Bless
From PA forum members: I'll update your comments in a few days. -OldBow
-"VERY nice bow! l love recurves and your bow is an excellent example of one. Well Done" JustAim
-"Nice bow Pete.  I've always liked the way Elm looks like after heat treating.  Really brings out the grain" Marc St Louis
-"can i have it? that's amazing, i need some of that elm!" radius
-"thats got to be one of the nicest looking if not the nicest recurve bow i have seen" youngbowyer33

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Offline cowboy

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Re: Pete Clayton's August Bow is Self Bow of the Year for 2009
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2010, 08:20:45 pm »
Congrat's Pete! That is one fine looking weapon and well deserved win! So how does a person go about winning bow of the year anyway ;D. Oh, guess I'm sposed to build a bow every once in awhile  ::). Congradulation's again man!
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Offline Keenan

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Re: Pete Clayton's August Bow is Self Bow of the Year for 2009
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2010, 08:37:22 pm »
 Congratulations Pete, That is a very fine bow and great example of a recurve.
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Offline DanaM

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Re: Pete Clayton's August Bow is Self Bow of the Year for 2009
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2010, 08:40:28 pm »
Awesome recurve Pete, congrats eh :)
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Re: Pete Clayton's August Bow is Self Bow of the Year for 2009
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2010, 09:04:50 pm »
Congrats Pete!
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Re: Pete Clayton's August Bow is Self Bow of the Year for 2009
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2010, 10:16:44 pm »
Congrats on your win! Very sharp bow.

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Re: Pete Clayton's August Bow is Self Bow of the Year for 2009
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2010, 11:05:06 pm »
very well deserved win on one curvy bow. is she single?
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Re: Pete Clayton's August Bow is Self Bow of the Year for 2009
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2010, 12:29:43 am »
Congrats Pete. That's one sexy bow!
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Offline Postman

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Re: Pete Clayton's August Bow is Self Bow of the Year for 2009
« Reply #8 on: January 13, 2010, 12:59:42 am »
Inspirational stuff, Pete. Congrats!
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Re: Pete Clayton's August Bow is Self Bow of the Year for 2009
« Reply #9 on: January 13, 2010, 01:14:06 am »
This  bow  really  deserves  the  medal,  60#  sweet:) 
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Re: Pete Clayton's August Bow is Self Bow of the Year for 2009
« Reply #10 on: January 13, 2010, 06:31:04 am »
Nice job Pete,very nice bow and well deserved win.Congrats. :)
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Offline AndrewS

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Re: Pete Clayton's August Bow is Self Bow of the Year for 2009
« Reply #11 on: January 13, 2010, 07:13:23 am »
Congrats Pete. A fine bow wins!
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Re: Pete Clayton's August Bow is Self Bow of the Year for 2009
« Reply #12 on: January 13, 2010, 09:04:28 am »
Congratulations Pete on a well deserved win!
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Re: Pete Clayton's August Bow is Self Bow of the Year for 2009
« Reply #13 on: January 13, 2010, 01:27:37 pm »
A very fine bow. Congrats to this well deserved win.
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Re: Pete Clayton's August Bow is Self Bow of the Year for 2009
« Reply #14 on: January 13, 2010, 02:18:09 pm »
Nice job on a beautiful bow... a deserved win... congratulations!
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