Black Walnut Sasquatch Special

[Kirkll]

This one is heading to Canada today. She has light weight hybrid long bow limbs with a bit of bling.  Bamboo and walnut core and wedges.

Build album link below.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/R5d4jCyzbi6zjjGt8

[Crooked Stic]

Kinda looks like Claro. Purty

[DVSHUNTER]

  wow Kurt! 

[Mad Max]

Nice Kirk 

[Buemaker]

Looking good.

[Jon Lipovac]

Has to be one of my favorite bows that I've seen you build. 

[Even]

Stunning piece of wood!

[JGR1269]

Nice work!

[Stagmitis]

Thats a beeutifull bow kirk! Awesome job!

[Bryan Adolphe]

Real nice Kirk 🏹

[Kirkll]

Kinda looks like Claro. Purty

Clairo is just another name for fancy black walnut... Comes from the same tree as far as i know...

The wildest figured wood typically comes from just below the large branches on the trunk, and in the crotch of the branches. You can get some wild figured wood from bottom side of the large branches themselves too.  The figure is caused by the compression of the wood as it grows larger and carries more weight....  If you ever have an opportunity to cut up wood from the stump itself from the root wad you can also find some seriously figured grain.  I did this with curly maple years ago and still have some crazy figured stuff from that harvest that was 12 years ago.

[Stagmitis]

I remember when you cut up that maple

[Kirkll]

I remember when you cut up that maple

I’ve still got quite a bit of that stuff left. I never sold any of it, and don’t plan on it either… I’ve still got pieces with bullets in it too. I build a couple bows with bullets showing in the riser years ago. They were stock bows, and sold pretty quickly too.
I think I lost those photos in the big photo bucket BS. I can’t believe how many photos I lost over that fiasco.    Still makes me angry.    Kirk

[Noah70]

Kinda looks like Claro. Purty

Clairo is just another name for fancy black walnut... Comes from the same tree as far as i know...

Claro Walnut is actually the native walnut of the Pacific Northwest US, from Northern California through Oregon.  It’s denser and stronger than Eastern Black Walnut, and more prone to “figuring” , making it the premium choice of specialty woodworkers for items like gunstocks, etc.  ( bowyers too!)

[Kirkll]

Considering I live in Oregon, I never thought of comparing our native black walnut with the eastern variety.

 I’ve harvested a lot of black walnut over the years and burned many many cords of it in our wood stove years ago. Occasionally I had some milled for furniture I built and other things. But it makes really great firewood.

So does Osage …. I scored a huge trailer load of Osage a couple years ago that was 20 years old. The gal I bought it from hauled it up from California and was going to build furniture out of it, but never had it done. IT sat out in a shed all those years splitting and cracking. Wasn’t good for anything else but firewood once I got it.

Kirk

[kennym]

Awesome bow Kirk!! I know a guy who cuts walnut logs, excavates the stump and has it sawed. Says the best figure is underground!