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stonecarver

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Crabapple
« on: June 15, 2008, 04:55:48 pm »
A big thanks to JD Duff and others here for the inspiring posts on Crabapple as a bow wood!

Well I'm fairly new to bow making having started last winter. I have been searching for a local wood to work with and found a few references here at PA on Crabapple. My first few Crabapple staves were from the mouth of the Thorne river (Thorne Bay SE Alaska) they were really lumpy and had a lot of red heart, not very good for bows but pretty wood. As the snow melted I was able to get away from the shoreline and find Crabapple that was a much better grade for bowyering. I think that being right on the bay the saltwater had something to do with the red heart I found in my first staves

example of red heart notice how little white wood there was in this character stave (this one ticked on me):




here is my more recent bow made from non red hearted Crabapple:

notice the stave is deflexed

this pic shows the set it has taken

I worked in a little pistol grip on the handle

mahogany tip overlays

pics of the bows back



strung shots



Did I mention its a bear bow ;)



the bow is 63.5 long 62 3/8 ntn 70# at 26 inches I was trying for 80# @ 28 but never pulled the extra 2 inches




I hope you enjoyed the pics!

sc








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Offline Justin Snyder

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Re: Crabapple
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2008, 07:35:44 pm »
The color contrast is great. How does it shoot?  Justin
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Re: Crabapple
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2008, 09:01:29 pm »
nice job. good tiller as far as i can tell, and i really like the grip. great job.
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Re: Crabapple
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2008, 06:02:06 am »
Man, that is wicked looking.  Looks like it would be a real hard tillering job.  It came out really good. 
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Re: Crabapple
« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2008, 07:30:14 am »
Looks to me like you did a great job on a tough stave.
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Re: Crabapple
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2008, 07:58:36 am »
Thats one GNARLY piece of Wood!! Looks really good....but a Straight On picture of the Bow at full Draw would be easier to tell if there was any issues with the Tiller....diagonal Pictures are deceiving....
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Re: Crabapple
« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2008, 09:18:33 am »
man this is nice. And making a 70# bow can sure be tough (never worked with that wood though).
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Re: Crabapple
« Reply #7 on: June 16, 2008, 10:34:54 am »
Great looking bow love the characterI am working on a crabapple as well thanks to J.D.Again great bow!Hammertime
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Re: Crabapple
« Reply #8 on: June 16, 2008, 10:53:51 am »
That did come out nice for a challenging piece of wood :). I'm eyeballing a pear tree close to the house nobody wants, hmm...
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Re: Crabapple
« Reply #9 on: June 16, 2008, 12:28:11 pm »
Whew! If I was voting for BOM today, I'd have to give this one a vote.
Reasons:
1)Primitive
2)Stickbow
3)Character bow
4)70#
5)Great story
I'll have to be patient. This one is bookmarked for June Self BOM for sure.
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Re: Crabapple
« Reply #10 on: June 16, 2008, 12:34:30 pm »
Beautiful bow with lots of character and from a relatively unused bow wood. Nice work!    Pat
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Re: Crabapple
« Reply #11 on: June 16, 2008, 01:44:33 pm »
That is one wild bow. I love the look of it. 70 or 80lbs make my shoulders hurt just thinking about tillering that one. Very sweet!
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Re: Crabapple
« Reply #12 on: June 16, 2008, 04:25:04 pm »

great bow! nice character!
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Re: Crabapple
« Reply #13 on: June 16, 2008, 10:12:31 pm »
Thanks!
It was a very fun project :)
Compared to the other Crabapple staves I had found this one was clean ;)

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Re: Crabapple
« Reply #14 on: June 20, 2008, 12:46:09 pm »
 Hey neighbor !  Good to know there is another primitive in southeast Alaska.I am up here at Hoonah.I stumbled on to some crabapple down in Tenekee inlet reckon you just turned me on to a new bow wood. Thank you !  Very nice looking bow.Hear you have plenty of blacktails and black bears down there,you plan to take that bow for a walk in the woods ?  Frank
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