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Cocobolo bows?

Started by Swiftspeed10, April 02, 2014, 11:06:00 AM

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Lost Creek Bows

#20
April 02, 2014, 08:14:00 PM
This is my favorite combo coco and bocote. Love this bows woods.
May the spirit of archery always be with you,and keep you young at heart.  www.lostcreekbow-com.webs.com

Jack Hoyt 75

#21
April 02, 2014, 08:43:00 PM
Cocobolo can vary in color from tree to tree and the region it was harvested in. You can find more reddish (seems to most common), a more chocolate color and a more orangeish color.

See Hummingbird Bows stock longbow pics to see the orangeish color phase.

Best thing is cocobolo is a heavy wood and make a heavier riser.  It is heavier than Shedua, Bubinga, Chechen and most others.

Wood database.com
Hill Country Bows - RER

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longbow fanatic 1

#22
April 02, 2014, 09:25:00 PM

Gdpolk

#23
April 02, 2014, 09:49:00 PM
The cocobolo on my Sarells Sierra is kind of unique.  It's nothing that's just absolutely wild, but I've never seen anything else like it.  The grain pattern runs in undulating waves and it has wide, deep fiddleback figuring to it.  It's very difficult to photograph under the matte finish but in sunlight it plays and dances around like a holograph.  

In person it is colored almost like half way between a lighter piece of walnut and that reddish cordovan leather color.  The grain is a very dark grey like 70-80% black in a paint or spreadsheet.  The lightest areas between the grain and in the figure turn up to a reddish orange color.  It's not expedition grade cocobolo, but it's just special enough to be unique and grown on me.

Here are some photos before and after the home-made grip was installed in various lighting conditions...

Summer time, direct overhead, no clouds:
 


Summer time, partly cloudy, about 1.5-2 hours before sunset:
   


Indoors at night with flourescent lamps on to help show the figure thats hard to catch with a camera in full, direct lighting:
   

Hope this helps.    ;)
1pc and 2pc Sarrels Sierra Mountain Longbows - both 53.5lbs @ 29"

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TexasStick81

#24
April 02, 2014, 10:41:00 PM
I have a thing for dark cocobolo









Centaur Triple Carbon 60" 55@29

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake"

#25
April 02, 2014, 10:55:00 PM
Zane, that top one is a beauty!

Bisch

TexasStick81

#26
April 02, 2014, 11:02:00 PM
That's the Horne I just sold.  Awesome bow, great piece of coco.
Centaur Triple Carbon 60" 55@29

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake"

Mike Gerardi

#27
April 02, 2014, 11:34:00 PM

duffer1565

#28
April 02, 2014, 11:49:00 PM
My Big Jim Buffalo , Cocobolo and Zebra wood
   
60" Firefly 48#@28"
60" Big Jim Buffalo 48#@28"

58" BW PSA IV 48# @ 28"
58" Firefly Messenger Static Recurve 47# @ 28"

BigTimber

#29
April 03, 2014, 06:10:00 AM
YORNOK, Who made your bow?

BT

lbshooter

#30
April 03, 2014, 09:23:00 AM
I have always thought this old Grizzly had a pretty Bubinga riser

Manitoba Stickflinger

#31
April 03, 2014, 09:57:00 AM

How about Birdseye Coco?

nineworlds9

#32
April 03, 2014, 10:10:00 AM
Birdseye coco?...annnd mind blown...
52" Texas Recurve
58" Two Tracks Ogemaw
60" Toelke Chinook
62" Tall Tines Stickflinger
64" Big Jim Mountain Monarch
64" Poison Dart LB
66" Wes Wallace Royal
            
Horse Creek TAC, GA
TBOF

Airdale

#33
April 03, 2014, 10:57:00 AM


My 58 inch Fox Royal Crown.

Manitoba Stickflinger

#34
April 03, 2014, 11:20:00 AM

The Birdseye Coco limb!

Straitshot

#35
April 03, 2014, 11:31:00 AM
Big Timber, YORNOC's bow is a Schafer.
A man's true measure is not found in what he says, but in what he does.

Joeabowhunter

#36
April 03, 2014, 11:58:00 AM
Ryan, that birdseye coco is fantastic.

LittleBen

#37
April 03, 2014, 02:41:00 PM
Might consider other rosewoods also like kingwood

#38
April 03, 2014, 03:36:00 PM
I have two a Hill and a pierce point Robertson.  I was considering parting with them, but it may be better to let them rest and hand them down for the kids.

**DONOTDELETE**

#39
April 03, 2014, 03:47:00 PM
Here is some bubinga for you along side Bocote.




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