A long,long while ago. Duck'n posted a thread asking about what TX Ebony is good for. I replied that its my favorite riser wood. You see, he had a TX Ebony tree in his yard that shed a pretty large limb. So.. he cut it up and sent it to me all the way from McAllen to Houston, which is a long way. We decided that I would build him a bow of the wood as a courtesy for sending it my way (it was a lot of wood). It took FOREVER to dry enough to make a bow but it finally did. We also decided that I would build the bow completely from logs that came from here in TX (Texans love stuff from Texas). So here is the TX bow with the riser cut from a tree in his own back yard. Now he and I have never met...this is a total TradGang deal.

First the raw materials



Now the finished product. Its 60" 53#@28" TX Ebony riser, TX Hill Country Cedar limbs, Osage accents.









 



Pretty cool story isn't it?

Bonner

The friends we've never met!  Great story, great looking bow!

Very cool story and sure is a beauty of a bow!!!!!!!!  

Another great bow ,you have talent.

Real nice...like the limbs.

Would ya look at them limbs!!!!!!  Wow!!!!!

Nice story and nice bow!!

Beautiful bow...thanks for sharing  

That's something! Hap

Love the limbs!

You can use those tips for a spear if the hogs get too close, right?  :D

These new curves he's building shoot as well as they look.  quiet, no hand-shock,  and fast!

That thing is a beauty.  

That's just too cool!

Well believe me all, I feel HONORED to own one of Dan's bows!  This is the first time I have personally laid eyes on it and I can't tell you how impressed I am.  I knew it would be really cool and Dan's work is very impressive but those pictures took my breath away!  Thanks again Dan and I hope to get together sometime and share a campfire...maybe even bloody that purty bow!

wow that is a nice one.

Beautiful.

Bonner makes some great bows.  He has probably learned more about this stuff (and faster) than you guys can imagine.  A couple of years ago, he and I decided to make some self bows. That's how he got started. Now he is a full blown bowyer making incredibly fine equipment. The boy has talent!