Me And My Cocobolo Bow

[Redbow]

That I made several years back it pulls about 50 pounds. Toughest wood I ever made a bow out of, never again.

 

[NCHillbilly]

Looks good! I've never tried cocbolo, but most of those tropical hardwoods are tough. I've made a couple out of ipe. They shoot good, but it's tough to work, and the dust kills your lungs and sinuses. Got a full-draw pic of the tiller?

 

[NCHillbilly]

PS-love the vintage woodland camo, I still have a good bit of that, too.

 

[specialk]

nice redbow!

 

[Redbow]

Looks good! I've never tried cocbolo, but most of those tropical hardwoods are tough. I've made a couple out of ipe. They shoot good, but it's tough to work, and the dust kills your lungs and sinuses. Got a full-draw pic of the tiller?

I used to have a picture of the bow at full draw on the tiller but that was on another PC it crashed and I lost all my photographs. The Cocobolo bow shoots well but its hard for me to shoot now at my age. I still have a hickory bow that I need to finish maybe I will do that next year.

I made a shorter Cocobolo bow 58 inches that thing would sling an arrow but it broke on day when I drew it back. Luckily the top limb that broke didn't hit me in the face that would have been nasty. The one in the picture is 68 inches.

 

[wvdawg]

Looks awesome!