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Offline Weylin

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Re: Hickory Stave ?
« Reply #15 on: June 18, 2011, 12:05:29 am »
I use Fiebing's leather dye. Works great. I just dyed my hickory flat bow with it. I dyed the back black and then I sanded the dye off the ridges. Then I dyed the bare ridges brown so they would stand out and provide some camo effect. I'm pleased with the results.

Offline BowJunkie

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« Reply #16 on: June 18, 2011, 12:54:24 am »
Weylin Do you by chance have any pic you could upload?
Thanks for the info
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Offline Weylin

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« Reply #17 on: June 18, 2011, 01:14:20 am »
Sorry man, I just put a coat of Tru-oil on it about 20 minutes ago :( I'm planning to take some pictures of it soon though. Maybe I'll snap a quick pic of the back tomorrow once I buff out the shine on the finish and I'll post it on this thread.

Offline soy

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« Reply #18 on: June 18, 2011, 02:08:05 am »
Here are some pics. Of iron wood using a similar method to the one weylin uses, and the same dye(fiebing's)
hope it helps. 8)
« Last Edit: June 18, 2011, 05:47:01 pm by soy »
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Offline Weylin

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« Reply #19 on: June 18, 2011, 11:51:08 pm »
Here's how mine turned out. sorry for the crappy pictures but hopefully you can get the idea.




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Offline BowJunkie

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« Reply #20 on: June 19, 2011, 12:20:48 am »
Nice work, Pictures turned out nice actually.
String her up and lets see some draw pics
Johnny
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Offline Weylin

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« Reply #21 on: June 19, 2011, 12:53:23 am »
Yeah, I'm planning on unveiling her with due ceremony soon. it's my first bow I ever made and I finally got it finished. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I want to put several more coats of Tru-oil on it still and I found out the hard way on my yew bow that the tru oil takes a while to cure all the way. when i strung and shot my yew bow the finish where the string laid over the back of the tips got all messed up. And that was a good week and a half after the last coat of tru-oil. So I'm gonna take my time and give the finish on this one the time it needs to cure.

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« Reply #22 on: June 19, 2011, 01:06:04 am »
Wow weylin that looks good...there u go bowjunkie that is a good template to follow have fun and good luck, can't wait to see the pics.from both of you :-X
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Offline Weylin

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« Reply #23 on: June 19, 2011, 01:58:28 am »
Thanks for the compliments, guys.  :)

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Re: Hickory Stave ?
« Reply #24 on: June 19, 2011, 10:58:14 am »
Gorgeous finish!

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