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Main Boards => The Bowyer's Bench => Topic started by: troutremble on November 07, 2010, 09:44:00 PM
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I built a new bow out of a mulberry branch i've had laying around. Only turned out to be 41#@26" which is a little light for my taste. Decided it would make a great gift for the 14 yr old son of a friend. I think I have a new convert. I had fun building it and it was a great escape from a lousy football game, but seeing the light come on when he shot his first few arrows was better.
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good looking bow, sure he'll get good use out of it.
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Here is your picture. Your bow looks nice.
(http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/z394/badcatbows/2010-11-06_08-40-27_445.jpg)
I hope you don't mind me fixing the image so it will show up; however, after looking at the image I think you will be required to reduce the size of the image.
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I really like the way that bends, I also like those kinds of light bulbs, when they go off, Very nice job....
Mike
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Great looking bow. Good job. The tiller looks great.
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nice one...
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Nice circular bend. Well done.
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is that branch tillered backwards? Looks like sapwood on belly. beautiful bend!
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You have plenty of lenght to shorten it if you want to raise the poundage.
Tiller looks great to me.
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Looks great
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Looks very nice.
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Thanks guys. It actually turned out better than I hoped, it was really just an experiment for me. I wanted to see if i could get a hunting weight bow from a small diameter branch. It is not tillered backwards, it is mostly sapwood because of the small diameter. It was 1 1/8" at large end and 7/8" at the other. I got into heartwood only the last 15" or so of thicker end. Got reports from friend that his son is shooting it daily too.
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Nice job.