Charlton wanted a 60" Ossabaw and this is what we came up with. She has a persimmon riser, boo cores, and eastern red cedar limb faces. I think we will go with buffalo horn overlays, but are not 100% yet. I have to play with some woods tonight against the cedar to see how they look. I really think the black horn will look best against this riser and cedar though.
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Looks awesome Marty. First time I've ever seen persimmon in a riser and it looks impressive.
Nice! That sure is some beautiful cedar for sure.
lookin good Marty
sweet! i never would have thought persimmon looked like that. i like it. and those limbs are killer.
Really gorgeous wood there man. Nice!
WOW, Marty that riser looks absolutely awesome.
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Andy
Looks nice Marty. And your paper is cleaner than mine:)
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This morning I got the limbs initially profiled, string grooves cut, and got her strung for the first time. I then started tillering and taking her to weight.
Alignment looked good, the blank was drawing 52@28, and she required some reduction on the top limb. Now she is drawing 46@28 and will fall right into the 42-43@28 requested weight after final tiller and finish sanding.
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Looks like I was slightly off center when I took the photo. The string tracks much better than this photo shows.
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Man can't wait to see this one finished. Beautiful choices!
Excellent!!
It is really hard to take a string track pic!! Never looks right on mine.
I agonized over what overlay material to use. Couldn't make up my mind, but finally went with the buffalo horn. I made overlay lams out of four different woods, but finally made up my mind. I found a piece of horn large enough and went to work. She is glued up under the lamps now. I should get them cleaned up for more photos tonight or in the am.
I love it when the customer wants me to use my own "artistic" choices in the details.
looks great,Is that "wild" persimmion or the Chinese persimmion with the big red fruit? I'm thinking that big cedar in my front yard is in trouble...
A buddy of mine cut this one down in FL.
I know where some tall straight wild persimmons trees are,not sure if they are big enough for risers.. we have a couple of the Chinese trees but I can't cut them.
Yesterday I got the overlays glued on, and this morning cleaned them up. The tips are coming along nicely! The buffalo horn has to be the best looking material against the cedar. Next step is riser shaping!
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Wow Marty looks great. Nice work
I really like the way you do the tips of your bows.
That Buff really does set it off nicely. Looking really great man.
Plus, you've already been working on it AND posted this early on a Saturday! Dang! I'm still waiting on the coffee pot to finish up haha.
Nice all round bow Marty.
This morning I stalked final tiller, rounded the limb edges, and cut the sight window!
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Great looking bow. The buffalo tips and overlays look real good.
Very nice Marty! :thumbsup: :clapper:
I got some more riser shaping done this morning. Lots of sanding left now!
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Here she is with an alcohol wipe to see the colors.
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Can I be your apprentice?
Here she is folks! She finished at 42@28 and is mighty sweet.
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One of the best parts of building bows for me is taking the rough materials and building something smooth, finished and functional. Great job finishing this one!
Very nice looking bow...do you do a lot of horn overlays?
Love Cedar lams!
Josh
P.S. Yes I'm up!
Yep, you're on Josh! Started playing this morning. The osage is gonna work fine in a canine. I'll start another "Josh's bow" thread if you want.
This is the fourth one I've used horn on. I like it.
QuoteOriginally posted by Apex Predator:
Yep, you're on Josh! Started playing this morning. The osage is gonna work fine in a canine. I'll start another "Josh's bow" thread if you want.
This is the fourth one I've used horn on. I like it.
I really like the smooth almost glass finish the horn has when sprayed...I have some pronghorn antelope tips on my recurve (pic in my avatar)...it's so smooth!
Heck yes I want to see the build!
I'm really excited to see how you work the Osage in.
Josh