We kind of get to thinking sometimes that Cocobolo is a reddish wood with relatively large pores...not alway though as this piece is very dark and dense with no visible pores

DDave

This piece is redder with much more open pores...presumably not as dense

DDave

And a side view of the Gharing rise just to show how dark it looks in most light

DDave

Is this a show your cocabola thread? Cause if it is here's one I got from dp

Yep, it can vary quite a bit from piece to piece.

Anything from light orange to dark violet. It's beautiful stuff!

However, as beautiful as it is, I decided to discontinue using it recently because I'm slightly allergic to it, plus it was upgraded to the CITIES II list.

Since it was upgraded on the list, it makes it more difficult to find nice pieces, and it also drove the price up.

We're not even supposed to ship out of the U.S. under the CITIES regulations.

medium dark, very red and very dense

darker dense and grainy

These are a couple of the my last cocobolo bows...

lighter red and dense

cocobolo and zebra

dark and semi dense

My favorite bow wood but it darkens with age. Some stunning examples here and on the Silvertip thread. One over there has flames licking through it.

Hard to get the right angle to show the beauty of this bow

One thing that just hit me...I am pretty sure nobody ever built an ugly bow with Cocobolo...Brandon you really make me wish I had bought one of your Special Edition bows a long time ago...that lefty is about as good as it gets...thanks for posting people and yes the idea was to show what ya got...in my case nothing since in my ultimate wisdom I no longer own either of those bows...and I have a feeling that by starting this thread I may have driven up the price of used ones...be careful what you wish for

DDave

My Blacktail

Recurve Crafter

thats one very nice looking bow there

lots of work in that one

Rosewood vs cocobolo

Some more

Dale Dye

Bear's Paw

Nice bow Mike, but your quiver's on upside down. :^)

Yeah I know... ;) Long story and the bow is long gone also.

My friend put it on while I was doing some other stuff and I didn't catch it until after I took the pics. Don't have many pics of it.

Had to sell it while I was raising 6 kids to keep the lights on once. Meet a guy at a local 3D shoot who agreed to pay $800 for it($1200 bow that was 6 months old) he shot it for the day at the shoot and during that shoot a good buddy heard what I was doing and offered the money I needed so I didn't have to sell the bow...tracked the guy down and he already sold it for $500 to someone else at the shoot..Who does that? Takes a $300 loss in a matter of hrs.

I've seen it posted here once since then.

Cocobolo is my favorite.

A rich piece of coco looks so great paired with the black ebony which is also getting hard to find.

Wes Wallace makes a beautiful recurve pairing coco with bacote.

Best wishes.

I figured there was probably a reason, but I couldn't help myself from picking on you about it. :^)

I am with you Fisher,Cocobolo and Gabon makes the best combo with plenty of mass.

No Orange wheres that at and isn't that the Cocobolo thats more rare and harder to get a hold of?

I found one more cocobolo bow from a couple years ago. :^)

Son nice furniture there boys.

two of Brandons from about 8 yrs ago.... both light and dark coco.......

Here's one I built a couple of years ago. Super fancy tight grained cocobolo and ebony.

God bless, Steve

Really dense Mexican cocabola.

Limb

Example of Mexican cocabola. It is uaually higher figured and more colorful with lots of oranges and purples ect. The previous bow is also Mexican cocabola . It is also only epoxy sealed and not finished at the time that this pic was taken.

God bless, Steve

Silvertip, not sure how to classify it other than I like it.

Cocabola with myrtlewood veneer.

Another myrtle and cocabola

God bless, Steve

Cacciatore - you are an expert on that combo. I love your photos!

Sixby - Exquisite functional art as always!

Here is Coco Bola and Bacote .

Coco & Zebra

A Timberhawk Strike XL

Just a little bit of coco in my Timberhawk Falcon- very dark

Dark Cocobolo

Cocobolo and Macassar

Coco and Shadua.

Seems to me there are only two types of Cocobolo used by bowyers, great and better...thanks for all the great eye candy

DDave

This is my Coco with marble wood,

My guess would be boycote

I no longer have this one...

My newest addition...

Love me some good cocobolo - at it's best, it has a warmth and character to it that few other woods achieve.

Well it turns out I am way more astute than I give myself credit for...apparently the Wolfer I am in the process of paying for has some nice Cocobolo in the riser which is likely one of the things that attracted me to it in the first place...all is right in my world...well other than a strange itch in my typing fingers urging me to order a Rose Oak and a Blacktail and a Silvertip...sometimes the best way to cure an addiction is lack of funds eh

DDave

Here's Bonita, made by Wes Wallace.

BTW Dave, all your bows are backwards!

TBB

It took forever on slow Internet for all pics to show. Wow, thanks for showing all of the beautiful bows.

Not sure if anyone is into it, but some acoustic guitars are being made with back and sides of cocobolo. They are incredible.

Rose Oaks are the top of the class in customs. I feel this because I have a few as well as Black Tails and Schafers and most of the rest.

When I look at the woods and the gloss that brings the beautys to life and I look at all my others. I have to say the oaks are the prettiest and do they ever shoot.

I see a few here with the orange and looks like to me in some of the Oaks to. Is this color in Coco hard to get? The strike and Smith hammer has some beautiful Orange Coco. I like that color more than the red maybe in my bows that have it rather than my red coco bows.

How about the waterfall Coco anyone have that?

Coco Habu

I too prefer the orange cocabola

Actually most of my bows are right handed...just turned out that those two cocobolo ones are lefties...the Wolfer is right handed...I have shot both right and left handed for a long time starting with guns when I was a teen, graduating to compound bows in the nineties and now recurves and longbows...like any activity if you do it long enough with some thought it just becomes something you do...I have taught people to shoot a recurve both right and left handed in a week...not with great accuracy maybe but with decent form...you might not be surprised to know that my best students have been women and children

DDave

Without a doubt, my favorite riser wood for both longbows and recurves, and absolutely love the contrast when paired with an Osage accent stripe.

CATK - please post a photo of the combo you describe? I would like to see it.

Thank you.

Oh ya!

Cocobolo and Osage look awesome together.

One of my favorite combo's, especially after the bow is about a year old and the Osage mellows out a little.

I have a bow by the late Shawn Peterson that's Cocobolo and Osage.

It's a unique and beautiful little bow.

Shawn Peterson "Red Tail"...

Here's my Thompson Zipper, Coco/CurlyMaple, inlaid Coco Arrows, Pics don't do it justice!

Let's run this one around one more time since Cocobolo is now on the CITES list...we should have all hung onto those bows as replacing them is gonna be more expensive now

DDave

It can also be a solid color one side and two tone on the other and still be a single piece of wood, love it!

Have a good one

Dave, You still have that lefty Gharing?? Nice bow.

Here's my favorite piece of cocobolo...I hope I have figured out how to properly put in a photobucket link....

Some fabulous bows here...cocobolo can be beautiful!

Oh well. didn't figure it out. Still some fabulous bows here. Can someone educate me on how to post PB links to show as pictures? I see people do it....

My favorite riser wood as of today. I have this cocobolo bow and more planned for the near future.

Some nice, dark and rich cocobolo in a Wes Wallace recurve.

I sold that Gharing locally some time ago...I know it is still around though as the local archery shop manager told me the buyer was in shooting it not long ago

DDave

My cocobolo/yew Centaur.

Like cocobolo-yew combo (my favorite)

My turn. Dale Stahl-my favorites.

cocobolo and cocobolo riser

Really great looking bows in this thread!

Joe

Bottom of the 9th and I add some more......

I think our pal Skookum may have been the first bowyer in this country to use cocobola in a riser; he told me about making one as early as 1960 as I recall. Here's his own hunting recurve from 2007, a 46# "Mojo" made with coco and yew. Bows come and bows go... but I'll be hanging on to this one I believe.

Who put that picture of Frisky's stupid old dogwood shoots in there??!! Here's Fred's yew-and-coco bow... I hope...

And one more, just because...

Fred make a red osier bow?

Joe

Take your shrubbery and leave, Frisky-- somehow you've corrupted a beautiful thread, LOL!

Vintage Works 59 replica for my daughters graduation ... love that cocobolo.

I know everyone is probably tired of seeing such great cocobolo influenced bows but I just told someone else about this thread and need to run it to the top again...that Vintage Works bow reminds me of the Brazilian Rosewood in my 1960 Kodiaks and also reminds me that cocobolo is a "true" rosewood

DDave

Man-o-man, nice bows :) JF

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