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Title: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: HMlongbow on October 13, 2011, 03:18:00 PM

What are you favorite wood combos in either handle or limbs?
I know I'm particular to the para rosa limbs w/ para rosa and black colored wood combos in the handle.  I also like the natural woods colors as well.

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: ron w on October 13, 2011, 03:52:00 PM

My favorites....cocobolo with osage, but there are others that look well also! Limbs...I like waterfall or tamo ash! Good grainy elm is nice also!

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Bladepeek on October 13, 2011, 04:02:00 PM

and I'm partial to the walnut/maple on my new Lost Creek I just posted.

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Sixby on October 13, 2011, 04:10:00 PM

Koa and Maccassar or wenge.Koa lights up like a Christmas tree. It has a depth like no other wood I have seen.
Ebony and Cocabola is pretty neat too as is Claro Walnut and ebony.
I have built a couple of bows of super fancy maple and purpleheart that are simply stunning.
Then there is Myrtle and Koa

Hey, I guess I just like wood.

God bless you all, steve

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Shedrock on October 13, 2011, 04:13:00 PM

I really like the looks of walnut/osage. I have a stunning 56" Pronghorn one piece with a walnut riser and osage limbs. Looks great when the osage was "new", now after it has aged a fews years, looks even better.

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: cbCrow on October 13, 2011, 04:24:00 PM

Osage limbs and Bacota riser really floats my boat. Really like how they look when they have aged together for a few years.

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: AdAstraAiroh on October 13, 2011, 04:29:00 PM

The black natural figuring and grain of Kingwood or Cocobolo in contrast to its red/orange base wood color really looks great to me.  If these woods are highlighted with osage or black ebony, then all the better.

Mark

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Night Wing on October 13, 2011, 04:33:00 PM

Cocobolo and white myrtle looks great.

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Jerry Jeffer on October 13, 2011, 04:36:00 PM

My favorite just became yew limbs and purple heart riser on my new longbow.

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Eric Sprick on October 13, 2011, 04:49:00 PM

Here some combos I like on my Mohawks

Bubinga with Cocobolo

 (http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj93/ruger1970/IMG_1467.jpg)

Osage with Cocobolo

 (http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj93/ruger1970/new007.jpg)

Another Osage and Cocobolo reversed

 (http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj93/ruger1970/IMG_2423.jpg)

Eric

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Eric Sprick on October 13, 2011, 04:51:00 PM

Forgot to add that the Osage in the middle pic is really mellowing and turning that nice honey color.  Looks even better with the Cocobolo as it ages.

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Sixby on October 13, 2011, 05:02:00 PM

Yew and purpleheart, Fantastic combination. great choice you made on that. Do you have a picture.

God bless you, steve

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Javi on October 13, 2011, 05:32:00 PM

My favorite riser wood is Texas Ebony… I’m torn on the limb veneers between Mesquite and Osage… probably leaning toward the Osage after it ages..

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Sirius Black on October 13, 2011, 05:41:00 PM

I second Sixby on that Koa. Grows in Hawaii. I just sent off an email question to my bowyer on making a bow for me in Koa. I think he has used it in the past.   :thumbsup:

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: COLongbow on October 13, 2011, 05:59:00 PM

How about these combos?

Cocobolo riser and Tulipwood limbs

Zircote riser and Tiger Myrtle limbs

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: pauljr on October 13, 2011, 06:13:00 PM

Cocobolo riser yew limbs or solid curly maple stained dark like Bob Thompson used to do.

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Canadabowyer on October 13, 2011, 06:21:00 PM

Shedua and bubinga riser with red elm limbs.Natural camo!! Bob

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: meathead on October 13, 2011, 06:24:00 PM

I have a shedua and zebrawood that I like alot.

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: d from phx on October 13, 2011, 06:28:00 PM

I like Zebrawood with Cocabola.That isd on my V-Bow

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: coaster500 on October 13, 2011, 06:28:00 PM

I like Myrtle and Walnut but when in doubt mix them up    :)  

   (http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/BigJim604528008.jpg)
   (http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/BigJim604528-1.jpg)

soooooooooo many choices and soooooooooo little time...

   (http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/Idaho%20Curt%20Bows/HB20.jpg)

Left to right Myrtle, Snake, Walnut, Striped Ebony and Redwood Burl....

   (http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/Finished.jpg)

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: WESTBROOK on October 13, 2011, 06:57:00 PM

Ebony and Osage works for me.

Eric

 (http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/mandoman_2006/Shrew%20bows/DSC00741.jpg)

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: ChuckC on October 13, 2011, 07:08:00 PM

To be honest. . .  I like black, cause I'm gonna paint it when I get it.
ChuckC

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: ron w on October 13, 2011, 07:08:00 PM

Wow ,some real nice combos..........

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: coaster500 on October 13, 2011, 07:24:00 PM

Dave need some pictures "para rosa" ?  I don't recall ever seeing it but that's not unusual for this old dude if it's been more than a couple of days...       :)

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Sixby on October 13, 2011, 07:37:00 PM

This is a combination that I built for a charity auction in Jackson Wy. It is spalted maple and koa and I thought it was one of the nicer combos I have seen. The koa was an extremely rare piece and very hard to find. I have not replaced it yet.
God bless you all, Steve

 (http://eaglewingarchery.i8.com/images/christy2010/crstauc1-.jpg)

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: hvyhitter on October 13, 2011, 07:38:00 PM

ebony riser with yew limbs........

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Kapellmeister on October 13, 2011, 07:42:00 PM

I have a Hill "Half Breed" with yew limbs and walnut riser that I think looks good.

I also like that combination of ebony and osage posted above.  (Hmmm... I might have to get a Hill "Owl" one day.)

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Sixby on October 13, 2011, 07:52:00 PM

Another super fancy koa and spalted maple with the wildest koa limb veneers in the world.
God bless you all, Steve

 (http://eaglewingarchery.i8.com/images/chis%26bradley/100_5682.JPG)

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: coaster500 on October 13, 2011, 07:55:00 PM

Very nice Steve.... That is some Georgous KOA!!!

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Sant-Ravenhill on October 13, 2011, 08:05:00 PM

I've seen some very nice zebra wood combinations. I like yellow and canary wood is very nice as it doesn't darken like osage over time.

With veneers almost anything is possible and there have been some very unusual and stunning woods under clear glass.

Bubinga, cocobolo, ipe, padouk, East Indian and rio rosewood, sapelli, and tulipwood are just some of the woods that I have seen.

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: **DONOTDELETE** on October 13, 2011, 08:11:00 PM

here's one you don't see every day.....

can you guess what this stuff is?


 (http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u301/kirkll/Wood/Roys%20Black%20%20white%20ebony/SANY0015.jpg)

 (http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u301/kirkll/Wood/Roys%20Black%20%20white%20ebony/SANY0021.jpg)

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: coaster500 on October 13, 2011, 09:06:00 PM

Striped Ebony?


 (http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/Big%20Jim%20Buff%2060%20inch/BigJim604528003.jpg)

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Friend on October 13, 2011, 09:39:00 PM

My favorites change like the seasons.

One particular combo that has interested me for years is a macassar riser w/bocote flare and bocote limb veneers.

The Zircote riser with tiger Myrtle limbs has possibly been one of my all time favorites. Since I own one, I just had to find another favored combo.

Best of luck choosing.

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: MikeW on October 13, 2011, 10:42:00 PM

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can you guess what this stuff is?

Marble Wood...what did I win?
     ;)

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Hermon on October 13, 2011, 10:54:00 PM

another vote for cocobolo and osage

 (http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc452/ghermon/100_2378.jpg)

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Sixby on October 13, 2011, 11:21:00 PM

Claro walnut is pretty nice.


PIC SIZE!

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: **DONOTDELETE** on October 13, 2011, 11:41:00 PM

Coasre500 cam the closest... Black and white ebony is what they called this stuff.  Roy Mackey found it about a week ago and we are are going to build him a Sasquatch RC out of it.

That board weighs 14.5 pounds with a 14% MC level.
it's pretty dense material.

Check out these Black walnut riser blocks....

 (http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u301/kirkll/Wood/CIMG0486.jpg)

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: cahaba on October 14, 2011, 12:34:00 AM

Cocobolo or Madagascar Ebony for the riser. Bubinga looks pretty good also. Tigerstripe myrtle looks great on limbs.

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Sixby on October 14, 2011, 02:52:00 AM

Kirk, Like my grandson says, O MY lanta That walnut is to die for,.

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: **DONOTDELETE** on October 14, 2011, 03:02:00 AM

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Originally posted by cahaba:
Cocobolo or Madagascar Ebony for the riser. Bubinga looks pretty good also. Tigerstripe myrtle looks great on limbs.

There is a big difference between Madagascar ebony and Macassar ebony.

here is Madagascar.

 (http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u301/kirkll/Bow%20building/TD%20Sas%202010/TDSas004008.jpg)

 (http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u301/kirkll/Bow%20building/TD%20Sas%202010/TDSas004014.jpg)


here as Macassar Ebony.

 (http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u301/kirkll/Bow%20building/TD%20Sasquatch%202011/Billys%20Sas%20RC/CIMG0521.jpg)

 (http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u301/kirkll/Bow%20building/Splinter%20Kat/SANY0004-2.jpg)

 (http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u301/kirkll/Bow%20building/Splinter%20Kat/SANY0009-2.jpg)

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: coaster500 on October 14, 2011, 09:18:00 AM

Now you're talkin my Language   :bigsmyl:  


 (http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/CIMG0486.jpg)

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: recurve_shooter on October 14, 2011, 04:35:00 PM

My new BigJim Buffalo is in the box as I type this, it will be another hour or so before I get to open it  It has a kingwood riser with zircote accent, koa and quilted maple veneers.

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Stiks-n-Strings on October 14, 2011, 11:13:00 PM

Just got my Macassar ebony with ebony riser and stained yellow birch accents from Striker yesterday and love it. Ordered another Striker today with maccassar limbs and osage riser with maccassar flare. I think it will be my new favorite when the osage get's good and aged.

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: MikeW on October 14, 2011, 11:38:00 PM

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Originally posted by Stiks-n-Strings:
Just got my Macassar ebony with ebony riser and stained yellow birch accents from Striker yesterday and love it. Ordered another Striker today with maccassar limbs and osage riser with maccassar flare. I think it will be my new favorite when the osage get's good and aged.

I have a Whippenstick that's a couple weeks away now. Macassar footed with Wenge and Osage accents, I used the Osage because I know it will aged and blend in nicely.

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Red Tailed Hawk on October 15, 2011, 12:42:00 AM

(http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x438/lead955/April2011045.jpg)

I like Maccassar and Red elm.

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: Bjorn on October 15, 2011, 12:59:00 AM

This is pretty good I think
 (http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q291/bjornweb/Schafers/IMG_1995_2.jpg)
My Schafer LB 60" and 51@28 Rosewood and Russian Olive limb veneers dyed to match. Moose tips.

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: cahaba on October 15, 2011, 02:05:00 AM

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Originally posted by Kirkll:

Quote

Originally posted by cahaba:
[qb] Cocobolo or Madagascar Ebony for the riser. Bubinga looks pretty good also. Tigerstripe myrtle looks great on limbs. [/b]

There is a big difference between Madagascar ebony and Macassar ebony

 What, did I spell something wrong?????

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: HMlongbow on October 17, 2011, 04:26:00 PM

Keep them coming folks as I always like looking at these different bows.  
Awesome

Title: Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
Post by: MikeW on October 17, 2011, 04:37:00 PM

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Originally posted by hitmanlongbows:
Keep them coming folks as I always like looking at these different bows.  
Awesome

My Blacktail Macassar Ebony & Coccobolo
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