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If your next bow you make was going to be made for yourself and you had any option what would it look like?
I think the next bow I make for myself will be a one piece longbow and will have a Zircote riser with diamondback skins on the back and cocobolo veneers on the belly with a cocobolo overlays on the back of the riser.
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My block of zircote has a crack, so I'm putting that one off and building a plain old chechen riser with elm limbs to compare to one with action boo limbs built to the same specs to see if I can feel any difference.
Just finishing a Honduran rosewood & osage riser with boo limbs for my brother and its awful sharp.
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Osage selfbow. The snake ones are cool, but for me a clean, straight bow with answer overlays is what i like. Maybe a bit of sapwood on the back as well.
-------------------- "There is a natural mystic flowing through the air; if you listen carefully now you will hear." Bob Marley Posts: 2886 | From: O' Fallon, MO | Registered: Feb 2008
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Wheels are turning. Ive got my veneers (Black and white ebony) Just looking for some really good looking Coco to go with it for the riser. It would be a take down because I travel to hunt to make things easier.
Shawn
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I never know until it is built. It will be a selfbow though.
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i love my snakey osage the most- right now- but am learning to work with this yew, and liking it more and more. mayabe a character yew, with lingcod skins and shark skin handle- with antler tips- oh wait, thats the one i am building for thingiemajig-cant seem to remember his name- but it is sure a bow i would like to make for myself someday!!i have been collecting materials for this bow for a few years now.
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All I want is a bow that puts an arrow where I want it to. The added benefit would be if it looked super snakey and had holes the size of fists... note I said holes
-------------------- He made my mouth like a sharpened sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me into a polished arrow, and concealed me in his quiver. Isaiah 49:2 Posts: 437 | From: Fort Smith, AR | Registered: Aug 2005
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BBO R/D with dark wenge handle with a couple of thin strips of osage in it and black cowhorn tips. I've got that handle and tips but gotta get more boo and osage.
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Hick backed osage, r/d or just flipped tips. But i'm also looking forward to a hunting weight snakey/rollercoastery hackberry stave that's staring me down
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"he hath bent his bow, and made it ready . . .his arrow shall go forth as the lightning" - Psalm 7:12, Zech. 9:14 Posts: 339 | From: Texas | Registered: Jan 2011
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The bow I am going to build myself for this years adventures will be bamboo backed osage from the slats Chisler sent me for Christmas. Going to be 66" ntn or thereabouts and 50ish to make sure I have plenty of knockdown power for the rabbits I wind up hunting when I SHOULD be watching for deer. Straight Hill style natural and beautiful is what I have in mind.
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