I'm sure most everyone here knows or has seen Pat Kelly' ( Pdk25) post! He is consistently killing animals and has one of the sweetest collection of beautiful bows I've personally seen!
He definitely has an eye for wood combos!
So when he asked me about making him a bow I knew it was going to be a challenge live up to his expectations, but I like a good challenge!! We conversed back and for for a while tossing wood combos around and narrowed it down to a few choices. He already had an amazing set of spalted mango veneers from IdahoCurt that he wanted to use in this bow.
We live a little over 4 hours apart and decided to meet up halfway so he could personally inspect some pieces I had picked out and make a final decision. After he so graciously bought me breakfast we laid everything out on the tailgate and started playing with the combos.
Didn't take long for him to narrow it down to a combo of stabailized walnut burl and some stabilized black palm in the riser. He also opted for Kudu horn overlays!
Here are a few pics of how it's coming together.
Everything compliments well with each other without being to subtle or overpowering the other!!
I think he absolutely nailed it!!! What do y'all think!
https://m.imgur.com/ogYmMCK
https://m.imgur.com/pWQiwXn
https://m.imgur.com/IM1EZQO
Looks awesome to me. Ken
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Looking great Randy. I would never have even thought about black palm if you didn't show me that piece, and you came up with the flare and mosaic layup. Great job. I think the palm will blend into the mango very well.
I think it will come out terrific,congrats guys.
Nailed,glued and tattooed!! Gonna be really nice!! :thumbsup:
My goodness, that's going to be pretty!
awesome
Can't wait to see this one!
That's going to look amazing!!
Pat has the identical taste in wood and bows as me so its nice to live vicariously hehe.
Wow, that is a stunning combo all the way around! You guys work well together. I just got some veneers from Curt as well and I hope you don't mind Pat, but I think I may be requesting that same black palm flare in my 3pc. The other woods I have in mind are different though.
That is going to be a beaut!!!
Lol, Darren. I don't have a copyright on the woods that bowyers use. The only problem is if yours comes out better looking than mine, I may have to order another, lol.
Awesome, Randy..
WOW!!!! That is going to be freaking awesome looking !
Great looking bow!
Oh baby, that looks amazing!!
:thumbsup:
Pat
Look forward to seeing it in person.
Terry
Can't wait to see the finished product!
:notworthy:
Wow that will be a looker!
Wow that will be a looker!
Beauty! :eek:
Very, very nice!!
Can't wait to see the finished product!! :thumbsup:
Oh wow! Can't wait to see the finished product!