Post your all wood bows.

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49.5" sinew backed osage.  Rat snake belly skin backing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mark Smeltzer]

WOW all of those are really good!

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2013 plain jane osage hunting bow.  It drove a stone tipped cane arrow through a bucks heart.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Pat B]

Sam, I get hot every time I see that bow of Chris'. She's amazing to see in person.
 Nice batch of bows, Clint. Are they all from your "giant osage"?

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Osage bow with a bullet wound

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pat, all of them are from the monster tree except for the bullet wound bow.

[Black Mockingbird]

Atta boy Clint...    

Thanks Sam...it is a wild one of a kind,that's for sure  

Pat  Pat  Pat...be careful of lust,as it can drive a stake thru the heart....lol        

Always fun when these threads pop up....nuttin but pure bow porn  

[KellyG]

Well the first shoot able self bow Osage pulling some where around 45#

 

My second shoot able shelf bow a hickory with some natural cammo. This was a bow I shipped in the 2012 swap.

 

My Third was for my nephew 4 at the time. A water snake skin backed osage self bow. It was the first skinned bow I did.

 

My fourth was a Rat snaked backed hackberry that I toasted the belly on. This bow I shipped in last years swap.

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My last was this bull snake backed Osage I made for last years PA trad bow. And I think My best bow.

 

I have a few others not finished and 3 made by others but they can show off their work.

[halfseminole]

 

 

This is Knotmare, a cable- backed red oak bow.  It's also my first bow, so be gentle.  I've learned a lot since then.

[takefive]

Wow, those are some terrific and downright beautiful bows.  Love looking at the wooden bows posted on the bench.  Here are a few I've made from boards.

Hickory/walnut/osage:
 

Hickory/cherry/osage:
 

Bamboo/cherry/osage:
 

Hickory:
 

Cherry bark/hickory/osage:
 

 

[Ironfist_Canada]

Great tillering on your bows takefive.  Superb work if I may say so.

[takefive]

Thanks Ironfist.  I've made 8 bows so far and about half as many that didn't work out.  Picking a board with good grain and tillering it has been the toughest part of the process for me.  Glad to belong to a forum where the experienced bowyers are so willing to help.  That's much appreciated, too.    

[swamhuntr]

great looking bows guys.

[Jack Skinner]

I like osage
 
Unbacked,bullsnake,and one hornbeam
 
Sinew and snake backed osage
 
Rawhind backed (daughters) and unbacked osage billet bows
 
Torges style osage flat bow

[Jack Skinner]

Just to show a little diversity
Rawhide backed yew
 
And an in "the white" hickory board bow
 

[Mark Smeltzer]

Geeez they keep getting better and better, I love that R/D bamboo cherry and osage.

Mark

[Ironfist_Canada]

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Hickory backed Purpleheart wide and long. I gave it to a friend for Xmas and cannot remember the weight . I know he shot some rabbits with it.

[takefive]

Good looking bow, John.  That's a cool wood combination.