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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: flntknp17 on January 03, 2007, 05:47:00 PM
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My wife got me a Dryad blank (cool huh!) for Christmas and I finished it this week. Ended up 65# @ 27" and I am extremely pleased with how it shoots. It really likes my heavy ramin wood arrows!
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b36/flntknp17/Picture059.jpg)
I thought it would be cool to inlay a stone point into the handle. I made a little window with a dremel tool and set a point into it. The point is one I made in my first real year of knapping (1993) and is made of local creek cobble chert. It sybolizes how far I have come and yet how I feel connected to both my past and the past of those others who hunted with wood bows and stone points in the past.
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b36/flntknp17/Picture066.jpg)
I plan to use the bow on a bear hunt in northern Saskatchewan this May and have the OK from the outfitter to use a stone point!
Matt
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Outstanding job, idea, and look there, Matt. Best of lock on your Bear hunt.
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very cool , nice work :0)
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Beautiful!
These blanks are awesome.
Congrats. What is the finish on the bow?
:clapper:
F-Manny
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Very nice job! That is a fine looking bow.
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what part of iowa ya from kevin
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That is awesome. I hope mine turns out that nice. Those pics give me inspiration to go work on it somemore.
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Beautiful, the inlaid arrowhead is a nice touch.
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Wow, great job. Hop I can get mine to look like that. What type of finish did you use? And how about a pic of the back?
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Buck, here is a pic of the back......I used tru-oil on the osage and boo with shellac on the cocbolo because nothing else would stick to it very well.
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b36/flntknp17/Picture064.jpg)
Kevin, I live in Ames. You?
Matt
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I've got the exact blank and sealing the Cocobolo was a concern. Thank you for the idea. Got to get the scraper sharpened and finish mine now. Hope it turn out as nice as your did.