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Title: My new hunting bow(second time around)
Post by: bow loving man on January 21, 2015, 08:39:00 PM

Well I had picked some beautiful bocote and some nice grained cocobola with a little pecan accent stripes just for my new hunting bow....glued it up with nice dark bocote veneers and red elm cores...I made it heavy and with my first attempts at antler tips....When it was roughed in, I decided to shoot a few shots from it...just to see how heavy it might be.  It was heavy alright but on the 8th shot it sounded like my arrow hit the riserplate hard but what had happened was the lower limb cracked...dead bow!   I was upset!  So I grabbed some wild looking zebra from the scrap pile some pieces of black walnut left over from another build and a little black glass and started over...I glued it up with shedua veneers and some nice red elm cores.   Came in 58" 62#@28".  My first try at an Ibeam, made it out of walnut.  and of course it got the Bodork finishing touch applied to make it look good!   Anyway here it is....

    (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/Bowlovingman/037cba97-d775-4c0f-ad51-0c4f4d1ef7b4_zpsszk53qgq.jpg)  
      (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/Bowlovingman/8215cc14-ded1-413f-9be6-92b97ae08fd1_zpsew1t1ghg.jpg)

       (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/Bowlovingman/IMG_3518_zpsfymconk6.jpg)

   (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/Bowlovingman/image1_zpsvyyxx1zj.jpg)

Title: Re: My new hunting bow(second time around)
Post by: Roy from Pa on January 21, 2015, 08:46:00 PM

That is a very awesome looking bow.. Congrats...

Title: Re: My new hunting bow(second time around)
Post by: kennym on January 21, 2015, 08:55:00 PM

Really nice job Barry!!  :clapper:    :clapper:

Title: Re: My new hunting bow(second time around)
Post by: Crittergetter on January 21, 2015, 09:03:00 PM

Very good lookin indeed!!!   :thumbsup:

Title: Re: My new hunting bow(second time around)
Post by: Trux Turning on January 21, 2015, 09:30:00 PM

Great looking bow!

Title: Re: My new hunting bow(second time around)
Post by: fujimo on January 21, 2015, 09:32:00 PM

that is a beautiful bow-    :thumbsup:  
 what happened to the first one?

Title: Re: My new hunting bow(second time around)
Post by: bow loving man on January 21, 2015, 09:39:00 PM

Many thanks guys, Fuji best I could tell and what my mentors had to say was that I left the  lower fade on the riser too thick for it to flex like I needed it too... When we scaled it, at 25" it really cracked bad and I was only at 75#!!!!!!! Needless to say I quit right there.... I gave it to Mike to make a lamp out of it...

Title: Re: My new hunting bow(second time around)
Post by: JJB on January 21, 2015, 09:42:00 PM

That looks really nice, good job!
-Jay

Title: Re: My new hunting bow(second time around)
Post by: soy on January 21, 2015, 10:29:00 PM

Love the combo   :thumbsup:

Title: Re: My new hunting bow(second time around)
Post by: chackworth3 on January 21, 2015, 11:19:00 PM

Very nice!

Title: Re: My new hunting bow(second time around)
Post by: bowhntineverythingnh03743 on January 21, 2015, 11:45:00 PM

Great job!

Title: Re: My new hunting bow(second time around)
Post by: cunruhshoot on January 22, 2015, 01:19:00 AM

Very nicely done! Love the nocks...

Title: Re: My new hunting bow(second time around)
Post by: Thadbow on January 22, 2015, 05:54:00 AM

I really like that strung profile... Great job!

Title: Re: My new hunting bow(second time around)
Post by: Buemaker on January 22, 2015, 08:07:00 AM

Excellent work. Bue--.

Title: Re: My new hunting bow(second time around)
Post by: bjansen on January 23, 2015, 12:53:00 PM

Nice job...I really like the tip work.