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Author Topic: Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?  (Read 894 times)

Offline TxAg

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Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?
« on: February 26, 2014, 09:49:00 PM »
Well....what do you like?  :)

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Re: Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2014, 09:58:00 PM »

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Re: Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2014, 10:00:00 PM »

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Re: Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2014, 10:00:00 PM »
Tenbrook,

Those are some crazy lines on that bow!  Do you have a pic strung?  Very nice wood there too.
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Offline hunthold

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Re: Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2014, 10:14:00 PM »
Black and white ebony

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Re: Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2014, 10:22:00 PM »
Everything goes with black   :D

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Re: Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2014, 10:25:00 PM »
This is the only black glass bow I own but I think it looks good.
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Re: Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?
« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2014, 10:27:00 PM »
Ziricote with Osage I-beam.  Black glass belly and back.

 

 
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Re: Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2014, 10:51:00 PM »
I love black glass bows. Just about anything goes great. I built one and called it a hornet. black glass and sage with maccassar flare. It looked awesome. That's about the strangest one I have done but love heavily figured walnut or koa with it and some red uniweft outlining the riser and for the power lam.

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Re: Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?
« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2014, 11:57:00 PM »
I have two bows with black glass.  One is my Dick Palmer longbow that has walnut for the riser.  The other is my Browning Cobra II.

   
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Re: Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?
« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2014, 12:03:00 AM »
Bloodwood/curly maple??

 

 

 

 

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Re: Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?
« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2014, 12:24:00 AM »
Koa, Cocobolo, Kingwood, Rosewood, and several other darker woods go great with black glass. About half of my bows have black glass on them and darker color risers. Another wood that comes to mind is Osage. I didn't like it at first with the black glass but once it darkens up it really goes well with it.
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Re: Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?
« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2014, 12:26:00 AM »
Rosewood, cocobolo, pau ferro, walnut.
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Re: Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?
« Reply #13 on: February 27, 2014, 01:11:00 PM »
Zebra wood.
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Re: Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?
« Reply #14 on: February 27, 2014, 01:22:00 PM »
Bocote and black looks awesome.
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Re: Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?
« Reply #15 on: February 27, 2014, 02:17:00 PM »
Bubinga + Black Glass= Beautiful bow !

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Re: Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?
« Reply #16 on: February 27, 2014, 02:23:00 PM »
Alot of choices, hard to go wrong.  You can see a 52" Kestrel bow on Dan Toelke's website that is Cocobolo riser and black glass limbs.  Beautiful.
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Re: Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?
« Reply #17 on: February 27, 2014, 03:00:00 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by SARarcher:
Alot of choices, hard to go wrong.  You can see a 52" Kestrel bow on Dan Toelke's website that is Cocobolo riser and black glass limbs.  Beautiful.
If it's the same pic I'm thinking of, I owned that bow for a while.  :)

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Re: Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?
« Reply #18 on: February 27, 2014, 03:09:00 PM »
The contrasting of colors always look good maple or osage would make a nice looking bow.

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Re: Favorite riser wood to compliment black glass limbs?
« Reply #19 on: February 27, 2014, 03:15:00 PM »
Jeff,

Almost any redish and figured wood is stunning with black glass.  It was my goto combination for sometime on new customs.  Here are a few black glass bows and cocobolo I have ordered and sold...

Stewart Slammer Special
   

Jack Kempf Trophy Hunter
   

Eagle Wing Double Carbon TD black phenolic I-beam.  Really sharp bow!
 

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60" Super Shrew 2pc 53@28
58" Ed Scott Owl Bow 53@28

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