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Offline Pappy

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Re: Honeysuckle bow finished
« Reply #15 on: January 19, 2010, 06:24:25 am »
Nice job on a challenging piece of wood,sweet looking bow.Congrats. :)
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Offline wodpow

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Re: Honeysuckle bow finished
« Reply #16 on: January 22, 2010, 07:50:16 pm »
Went and cut me one nice long section about as big as a basetball one of the bigger limbs I have seen on a Amur honeysuckle and nice and straight looks about the size you cut Greenstick .  after it gets dry maybe a sinew back will make a bow that will take a deer and not brake .

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Re: Honeysuckle bow finished
« Reply #17 on: January 22, 2010, 09:46:19 pm »
Great Job with the honeysuckle bow-I still may try it again. So how wide are limbs near the handle?

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Re: Honeysuckle bow finished
« Reply #18 on: January 22, 2010, 10:13:13 pm »
 ;D  Never seen one from Honeysuckle, and you did a great job! Like Keenan said, the learning never stops unless you want it too..

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Re: Honeysuckle bow finished
« Reply #19 on: January 26, 2010, 10:30:44 am »
Good luck on your bow Wodpow , I hope you have great success and get a deer. The width of the limbs at the handle are 2 1/2" , Orcbow.  I didn't back it because I was reluctant in covering up the nice deep groove pattern.
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Re: Honeysuckle bow finished
« Reply #20 on: January 26, 2010, 01:18:18 pm »
Cool bow I love seeing different woods :)
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Re: Honeysuckle bow finished
« Reply #21 on: January 26, 2010, 03:52:24 pm »
Looks nice, good job. :)
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Re: Honeysuckle bow finished
« Reply #22 on: January 26, 2010, 11:12:53 pm »
 Wow! That's a cool bow from a different wood.
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Re: Honeysuckle bow finished
« Reply #23 on: January 27, 2010, 10:57:19 pm »
FYI- just a little warning , this wood is hard on the tools, I had to keep resharpening the draw knife.
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Re: Honeysuckle bow finished
« Reply #24 on: January 27, 2010, 11:33:11 pm »
Great looking bow. Well done. Jawge
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Re: Honeysuckle bow finished
« Reply #25 on: February 03, 2010, 12:43:06 am »
Thats what I found out also something about mineral  crystals in the wood structure. Did you leave the crown full at 2 1/2  "the one I made was good just the back was knotty and a backing of even silk would of helped a lot but I really thought I was going to hold up all I did was remove the bark   I just thought man this wood isn't bad better than some Osage or Mulberry limb bows I tried to make.

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Re: Honeysuckle bow finished
« Reply #26 on: February 03, 2010, 01:01:21 am »
Did you flatten the crown to get that deep groove pattern  looks like the growth rings is why I asked .I had a large trunk but with the high crown I had to make it 1 1/2 wide  and hit my draw weight of 60#@ 28".

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Re: Honeysuckle bow finished
« Reply #27 on: February 06, 2010, 11:05:39 pm »
Did you flatten the crown to get that deep groove pattern  looks like the growth rings is why I asked .I had a large trunk but with the high crown I had to make it 1 1/2 wide  and hit my draw weight of 60#@ 28".
No I didn't have to , the grain was just like that.
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Re: Honeysuckle bow finished
« Reply #28 on: February 07, 2010, 07:38:35 pm »
I took a bigger look and see that grains look is from leaving some of the inner bark on the back it didn't look like the back of mine . I steamed mine loose and rubbed it off  with a chore girl copper pot cleaning pad to keep from nicking the back with a draw knife beings it was kind of rough .

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Re: Honeysuckle bow finished
« Reply #29 on: February 07, 2010, 08:04:04 pm »
saaaweet.looks good
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