Author Topic: The "Z-Lander" selfbow! (Finished pics pg 2 & 3) (Read 1555 times)

Osagetree · « **on:** July 12, 2010, 07:55:00 PM »

Just finished off a bow I had been secretly working on. The bows name has a meaning and I bet at least one T-ganger knows why. I still need to do some final treatments to the bow but I was shooting it like a mad man this evening.

Some staves sure give me fight but this one came together very easily,,, unlike in the firewood thread I've still yet to finish. This satve had a couple inches of natural reflex and ended up just about perfectly straight.

This bow is of a flat bow design 61 1/2" in length, 1 3/8" at the fades down to under 1/2" at the tips; Braced at 6" it is pulling right at 50# @ 26".

I feel by the time I do some final sanding and shooting it will be just over 45# which should be perfect for its new owner.

Okay John, you get the next one!

Stiks-n-Strings · « **Reply #1 on:** July 12, 2010, 08:21:00 PM »

Good looking bow Joe.

I got a stave with all kinds of character I'm working on and feel pretty good about. That BBJ I finished up for the Bow swap really gave me alot of confidence. Next year it will be Osage all the way!

Pat B · « **Reply #2 on:** July 13, 2010, 12:57:00 AM »

Nice clean lines on this bow Joe and the full draw tiller looks right on!

Roy from Pa · « **Reply #3 on:** July 13, 2010, 01:16:00 AM »

Nice Joe.

Osagetree · « **Reply #4 on:** July 13, 2010, 05:00:00 AM »

Thanks guy's and here is one I forgot

Bob Barnes · « **Reply #5 on:** July 13, 2010, 08:16:00 AM »

very nice...you did a great job. tiller looks about spot on...

Bob

George Tsoukalas · « **Reply #6 on:** July 13, 2010, 08:24:00 AM »

That is awesome! The tiller is great! Jawge

Shaun · « **Reply #7 on:** July 13, 2010, 09:23:00 AM »

Real sweet Joe! Sometimes the bow just wants out and it seems so easy. You did especially well with the tiller on that one. There is something about the braced lines in that second picture that just says, "Look out deer!" to me.

razorsharptokill · « **Reply #8 on:** July 13, 2010, 11:03:00 AM »

Very nice!!!

ChristopherO · « **Reply #9 on:** July 13, 2010, 12:16:00 PM »

Whoever is on your list for receiving bows are very fortuneate folks. There is a lot of grace in a simple osage wood bow and you bring it out well.

red hill · « **Reply #10 on:** July 13, 2010, 05:09:00 PM »

Nice bow, Joe! But are your shooting pics backwards? LOL
Stan

DVSHUNTER · « **Reply #11 on:** July 13, 2010, 07:03:00 PM »

very nice joe. I still like those "simple" osage bows. They just look great.

David Holt · « **Reply #12 on:** July 13, 2010, 07:18:00 PM »

sweet!!

Osagetree · « **Reply #13 on:** July 13, 2010, 07:34:00 PM »

I truley appreciate the responses,,, in fact,,, I think if it were not for this site and its really cool members, I would not enjoy this as much as I do.

Who is the Z-lander?

He'll be along soon,,, I hope?

JEFF B · « **Reply #14 on:** July 14, 2010, 12:15:00 AM »

I AM SPEECHLESS!!!!!! like wow!!!!!! buddy you have out done yerself that looks like a real shooter well all i can say is thank you so much joe and it is an honour to have you as a freind now i have another knife to make so you get two my freind. hey does the wife wear necklaces? if so i will make somthing fer her as well. let me know. jeff

:thumbsup:AND I LOVE THE NAME Z-LANDER awesome bro

scrub-buster · « **Reply #15 on:** July 14, 2010, 01:55:00 AM »

Very nice bow. Is the bottom limb shorter than the top?

Tony Chinn · « **Reply #16 on:** July 14, 2010, 01:08:00 PM »

A true work of art.

Osagetree · « **Reply #17 on:** July 14, 2010, 06:01:00 PM »

Scrub, the bow is slightly canted in the full draw pics providing that appearance but, they're the same lenght.

Jeff, Glad you like it. I still have a little dressing up to do. Would you like antler overlays on the tips? Should we take that chance with customs?

I will include an extra string and a trinket or something if I can. Your offer for the wife sounds great. She gets mad sometimes cause I get packages in the mail and she dont.

Bear with me a couple weeks or so as I have to raise the money to ship the "Z-LANDER" to the other side of the world!

I'll post some final picture here once it is completed and shot in some more

fish n chicks · « **Reply #18 on:** July 14, 2010, 06:05:00 PM »

I'm gonna take a stab at this but is it z-lander cause it's going to someone in New Zealand or cause you couldn't get it to turn left like zoolander (ben stiller)?

Either way great work my friend. Way to keep us wanting to refine our work just by looking at yours!!

DEATHMASTER · « **Reply #19 on:** July 14, 2010, 07:09:00 PM »

That is a very nice simple bow.

I love those and have dreamed of just the simplicity of a stick and string with no glass.

That one is splecial!!!!

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