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Title: indian archery flatbow repaired and refinished
Post by: don s on December 17, 2010, 08:00:00 PM: i decided to repair and refinish my indian archery flatbow. click on the pic and go to my photo bucket. i have 3 albums with before and after pics, as well as pics with the handle off. you can see that the bow is actually two pieces joined by a "z" splice. the handle is stamped "55" as well as penciled with the number. the handle also is dowel pinned together.if you can't access all 3 albums let me know and i'll fix it.looks like maple, would you agree?
(http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h356/donny-szymanski/indian%20archery%20flatbow%20repaired%20and%20refinished/th_indianarcheryflatbowrepairedandrefinished002-1.jpg) (http://s1105.photobucket.com/albums/h356/donny-szymanski/indian%20archery%20flatbow%20repaired%20and%20refinished/?action=view¤t=indianarcheryflatbowrepairedandrefinished002-1.jpg)
Title: Re: indian archery flatbow repaired and refinished
Post by: don s on December 17, 2010, 10:20:00 PM: this will take you to before pics. (http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h356/donny-szymanski/th_indianarcheryflatbow002.jpg) (http://s1105.photobucket.com/albums/h356/donny-szymanski/?action=view¤t=indianarcheryflatbow002.jpg) this will take you to pics with the handle off. (http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h356/donny-szymanski/refinishing%20indian%20archery%20flatbow/th_refinishingindianarcheryflatbow021.jpg) (http://s1105.photobucket.com/albums/h356/donny-szymanski/refinishing%20indian%20archery%20flatbow/?action=view¤t=refinishingindianarcheryflatbow021.jpg)
Title: Re: indian archery flatbow repaired and refinished
Post by: Liquid Amber on December 18, 2010, 06:19:00 PM: Looks good.

Better photos of the wood and I'm now pretty sure it's lemonwood. They'd saw out billets from a lemonwood log imported from Cuba and then shaped the bow. Sometimes they backed it, most times they didn't. I have owned several Pearson and Indian bows, both of hickory and lemonwood. I still have an old Highfield ELB of lemonwood.

I'm not sure maple was used in the manufacture of these bows. It was a favored wood for early wood/fiberglass composite bows and still used for that purpose.
Title: Re: indian archery flatbow repaired and refinished
Post by: don s on December 18, 2010, 07:21:00 PM: thanks LA. i've never seen lemon wood before. i've heard of it. i know it's from cuba and AKA degame. the grain appears similar to maple.
don
Title: Re: indian archery flatbow repaired and refinished
Post by: KYArcher on December 19, 2010, 08:50:00 PM: Looks good! Nice Job.... KY
Title: Re: indian archery flatbow repaired and refinished
Post by: don s on December 20, 2010, 12:58:00 AM: thank you. i'm going slow with this bow. i made up a string for it and i strung it with a shallow brace. i'm going to short draw it to excercise the limbs and let it come to the string.
don
Title: Re: indian archery flatbow repaired and refinished
Post by: dposalski on December 28, 2010, 01:46:00 AM: Don, that looks great. I will do that to my bow as well. Trying to figure out what to do about the logo.
Title: Re: indian archery flatbow repaired and refinished
Post by: don s on December 28, 2010, 04:35:00 PM: dposalski, i can't help you there. my logo is not a decal. it was coming off, so it was easy to remove and clean up. when i finished with the bow it was simply a matter of regluing it to it's original spot.
Title: Re: indian archery flatbow repaired and refinished
Post by: dposalski on December 28, 2010, 07:22:00 PM: I dropped a line to the BP factory and they weren't of any help. I know I have seen decals for the Bear bows floating around on here.