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Title: hickory selfbow
Post by: Ken75 on March 31, 2011, 08:27:00 PM
built this one today 58 inch tip to tip 47lbs at 28 inches . flipped tips, (//%5BIMG%5Dhttp://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee487/Ken7051/009-4.jpg)
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(http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee487/Ken7051/003-12.jpg)[/IMG]  pin knocks and turkey feathers on the back , cherry stain. feather idea came from someone else.
Title: Re: hickory selfbow
Post by: Ken75 on March 31, 2011, 08:28:00 PM
full draw  (http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee487/Ken7051/009-4.jpg)
Title: Re: hickory selfbow
Post by: beetlebailey1977 on March 31, 2011, 08:32:00 PM
Nice profile at brace....Like the turkey feather idea.  Looks good.  You are a bow making machine.
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Post by: TimB on March 31, 2011, 08:33:00 PM
Looks nice! The turkey feathers sure are different. What did you finish it with? And now for a newbie question, how do you "flip" the tips? Do you heat it, or steam it and then clamp it to a form?
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Post by: Ken75 on March 31, 2011, 10:14:00 PM
thanks beetle, dritydan on PA did feathers a while back , so its not original

thanks Tim, titebond over the feathers and cherry acrylic stain, cleer gloss over that.steam the limb tips , and these i bent by hand if im not putting large bends in i just do it by feel . hold till the wood cools or like me run cold water over them (the bowyers are turning flips at that thought !!)
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Post by: George Tsoukalas on March 31, 2011, 10:35:00 PM
Very well done! Jawge
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Post by: don s on March 31, 2011, 11:09:00 PM
ken, so far you've built somewhere in the neighborhood of 732 bows in the last 2 weeks. give or take 3. what do you do with all these bows? don
Title: Re: hickory selfbow
Post by: SEMO_HUNTER on March 31, 2011, 11:16:00 PM
Man, you had me goin there for a second Ken. I didn't know what the heck that was on the bow's back?? I was wondering where you got those big fish scales......maybe a Dragon?? LOL

That's cool, I might borrow that sometime.
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Post by: Stiks-n-Strings on March 31, 2011, 11:34:00 PM
semo that was my first thought until I looked closer. I thought they where carp scales or something
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Post by: Stiks-n-Strings on March 31, 2011, 11:35:00 PM
Ken I forgot to say that is a sweet hickory stick. You must live  in your bow shop,LOL
Title: Re: hickory selfbow
Post by: CaptainJ on April 01, 2011, 12:16:00 AM
Another nice bow Ken!
I can't decide about the feathers. I look at them once and think 'nah' and then look again and think 'wow'. Pretty cool idea.

I do the cold water thing on mine too.    :thumbsup:

CJ
Title: Re: hickory selfbow
Post by: Ken75 on April 01, 2011, 09:27:00 AM
thanks gentlemen,for the kind words
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Post by: Dave Bowers on April 02, 2011, 12:50:00 PM
Dang you are a bow building machine...great looking bow   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: hickory selfbow
Post by: Ken75 on April 02, 2011, 04:47:00 PM
thanks sir
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