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Title: first red oak bow done...
Post by: Cody Roiter on June 03, 2009, 02:19:00 PM

Hello guys here a few weeks ago a friend gave me this bow and he didn't know that he could make a bow from it so he gave it to me to work on it and to see if I could get a bow that would shoot.. Well when I got home from the show I was thinking of useing a backing of this bow because from the past from me making oak bows have never works out for me.. which in the end of 5 bows not working out I told my self never agin would I make a bow from oak.. well I lied to my self...
So I did my homework and said i think I will use that dry wall glass tape for the backing and I used TB2 for glue that nite found me out in the shop glueing up the backing.. the next morring at about 6am found me out in the shop takeing it off the form and I could not think how good this came out.. I then sanded the tape on the side down to the limb.. I sanded the belly of the limb and with in a hr found me shooting it.. The back looked bad so I just paited the back of the tape white.. I realy like this bow because it looks like some that H.Hill made back in his early days...... I hope u lad's injoy the photos

Cody

P.S the bows about 35 to 40 pounds@30.. I wish it would came out in the high 50s as I would use it for hunting....

 (http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu197/TradBowKid/Redoakbow014.jpg)

 (http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu197/TradBowKid/Redoakbow015.jpg)

 (http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu197/TradBowKid/Redoakbow016.jpg)

 (http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu197/TradBowKid/Redoakbow017.jpg)

 (http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu197/TradBowKid/Redoakbow018.jpg)

Title: Re: first red oak bow done...
Post by: Dano on June 03, 2009, 03:07:00 PM

Nice job Cody, we gotta see it at full draw ya know.    :bigsmyl:

Title: Re: first red oak bow done...
Post by: Cody Roiter on June 03, 2009, 03:11:00 PM

Dano I will get one later 2day for u guys.....

Title: Re: first red oak bow done...
Post by: Pluck Yew on June 03, 2009, 06:55:00 PM

Cody, wear your helmut and goggles...

Shawn...

Title: Re: first red oak bow done...
Post by: Pluck Yew on June 03, 2009, 06:56:00 PM

Yeah watch your spellin'

Shawn...

Title: Re: first red oak bow done...
Post by: Pat B on June 04, 2009, 03:30:00 PM

Nice Cody. Lets see the full draw pic.

Title: Re: first red oak bow done...
Post by: tim-flood on June 17, 2009, 02:52:00 PM

Hows bout pikeing it and if thet is not enough put a piece of hickory on the back in reflex, or bamboo

Title: Re: first red oak bow done...
Post by: 2treks on June 17, 2009, 05:37:00 PM

Dang Cody, you got that done already? You gonna bring it to compton and show it off to Shawn?