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Offline Bob W.

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Sinew Backed Yew with Cotton mouth skins
« on: July 05, 2016, 09:35:20 pm »
Just finished up my 60" sinew backed Yew with flipped tips, rawhide over the sinew and Cottonmouth skins over the rawhide. Kingwood tip overlays. She is pulling 70# at my 28" draw and is stable as any bow I have ever shot. The Yew was very light colored so I dyed the edges black and faded it  to the center with brown. The handle is jute with a Massey finish. I finished it with Truiol and then hit it with poly to nock off the shine. Thanks for looking and any criticism is welcome.

Offline Bob W.

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Re: Sinew Backed Yew with Cotton mouth skins
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2016, 09:36:49 pm »

Offline Bob W.

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Re: Sinew Backed Yew with Cotton mouth skins
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Offline bjrogg

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Re: Sinew Backed Yew with Cotton mouth skins
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2016, 09:41:04 pm »
Darn nice looking bow yah got there. No criticism here bend looks great.
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Offline Bob W.

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Re: Sinew Backed Yew with Cotton mouth skins
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Re: Sinew Backed Yew with Cotton mouth skins
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Offline ajooter

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Re: Sinew Backed Yew with Cotton mouth skins
« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2016, 09:50:24 pm »
Oh man what a beauty!  Would love to rip a few thru that baby!!

Offline Bob W.

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Re: Sinew Backed Yew with Cotton mouth skins
« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2016, 09:50:41 pm »
Thanks, here is the belly of the bow , the yew was 30 years per inch. I used knox hide glue and whitetail leg sinew and TB3 to glue the rawhide and skins on.

Offline hunterbob

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Re: Sinew Backed Yew with Cotton mouth skins
« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2016, 09:52:43 pm »
Sweet bow Bob. I like the looks of those skins. Hurts my shoulders just thinking about drawing that one back. Good job on the tiller also.

Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Sinew Backed Yew with Cotton mouth skins
« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2016, 10:09:45 pm »
That's a gorgeous bow!  I hope you post it in the B.O.M contest.  Why did you put rawhide over the sinew?  That's not criticism, just curious  :)
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Offline Bob W.

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Re: Sinew Backed Yew with Cotton mouth skins
« Reply #10 on: July 05, 2016, 10:28:47 pm »



Thanks Osage Outlaw and HunterBob.  No reason other than to give the skins a nice smooth backing to glue on and to protect the soft sapwood out towards the tips.

Offline Mounter

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Re: Sinew Backed Yew with Cotton mouth skins
« Reply #11 on: July 06, 2016, 12:27:37 am »
Wowzer!!! Beautiful!

Offline wizardgoat

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Re: Sinew Backed Yew with Cotton mouth skins
« Reply #12 on: July 06, 2016, 12:32:07 am »
Nice bow and skins. Tiller looks nice

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Re: Sinew Backed Yew with Cotton mouth skins
« Reply #13 on: July 06, 2016, 12:34:16 am »
Sweet shooter you got there! Love that unbraced profile! Cheers- brendan

Offline Lehtis

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Re: Sinew Backed Yew with Cotton mouth skins
« Reply #14 on: July 06, 2016, 01:41:57 am »
Great work!