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Just playing with my new camera toy, trying to figure it out.[8D]

Here's my bow rack. Bottom to top: Wing Presentation II; Chek-Mate Kings Pawn; blank space waiting for my soon-to-arrive Pearson Cougar; Pearson Colt; York Cadet; my homemade reflex/deflex longbow; painted flatbow; a couple of selfbows - the new silk backed one is hiding behind the hickory backed one in front; my huntin' knife [8D]; a few messed up arrows. That's my fox hide Sunday Go To Meetin' quiver hanging on the left.;)

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huntin knife...claymore.....$hit..... everything *is* bigger in TX :D

Nice rack of bows and I am soooooo diggin the fox quiver...guys who used to run the trad shop here had a few animal skin quivers like that...I always was gonna buy one...but never did...exactly what I was gonnna buy..grey or red fox....y' know where ya can get 'em online Art?

BTW..your homemade longbow...what's she made of? that's a very nice looking riser section...

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Jeff, sorry but I don't know where to get skin quivers like that. I've had that one for 20 years. Hardly ever use it, so I figured one is enough.;) Just haven't been keeping an eye open for them. I did see some at the Texas State Fair a few years ago.

The riser on my longbow is bocote. The accent stripe is two strips of hickory, two strips of black fiberglass with a stip of osage in the middle. The limbs are hickory under clear glass. Overlays are bocote over black glass. It's 68" long and pulls 48 pounds at 31".

Here's a closeup of the riser:

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(Insert drooling sounds)

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Now, don't go slobberin' on my stuff, Kevin![:-]:D

Jeff, this guy has some skin quivers. Price on a fox quiver is pretty reasonable, compared to the plain old back quivers from 3 Rivers and such.
http://www.hidehandler.com/catalog/L...th_Catalog.pdf

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Dang Arthur, YOU made that longbow? That thing is beautiful. I was just thinking before I saw your second post that the 3rd bow from the top was my favorite..

Very good!!!!!!!!!

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Art...thanks for the link!...and I'm with doublecreek...def that's a gorgeous bow..you should be proud...I love bocote for a riser..(looks AND weight)

How do you like hickory as a limb wood?...what would ya compare it to? Elm? locust? I see Great Northern uses quite a bit of hickory as well as some lesser known bowyers.

I don't think I've ever even seen a bow w/ hickory limbs in person...

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Just looked...that price sounds reasonable to me...I think the local trad shop was sellin 'em for 100 bucks back in the late 90's....One of the guys there made a quiver outta birch bark..now *that* was cool

and I sooo want one of those Skunk Hats that guy makes...I'd look really cool wearin that into the office this winter up here in yankee-land

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Thanks, guys. I am pretty proud of her, especially since she's the first glass laminated bow I ever attempted.:)

Jeff, I don't think I'll use hickory again. The light color contrasts really well with a dark riser and it's got suprisingly nice grain to it. The bow shoots okay and has good speed... well, excellent speed really... but hickory is fairly heavy and I think it gives the bow a little more shock than it needs. But I'm pretty sensitive to hand shock because I severely dislocated my bow hand thumb playing b'ball in college. Didn't bother me too much back then but now, 35 years later, it gives me fits. I'll probably use red elm for my next one. I really want to try my hand at a H. Hill style straight limbed bow. I'm thinking face cut red elm under clear glass and shedua for the riser.;)

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That hickory will feel like a feather pillowcompared to a Hill Style...those things ring the beejesus out of me no matter what wood is in 'em...[:'(]

I admit though..they ARE way cool....:)

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I've shot some Hill style bows that'll make a couple of your teeth swap holes on every shot. And I've shot some that were gentle as lambs, and they were always longer ones, 70" or so. I think the key is to keep enough bow length to minimize limb tip movement, use lighter woods in the limbs (maybe why Hill was so partial to bamboo?) and get the brace height just right. At least that's the theory I'm gonna work under for now.

Might make a bow just to wind up sticking it on Ebay, but I gots to try.;)

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Ebay my a$$, I might know a guy that likes buying bows:D

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Man, that is one beauty of a longbow you made Art!