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Offline Marc St Louis

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Re: Northern Community Bow
« Reply #165 on: February 24, 2007, 11:13:36 am »
I've been following this and things are looking good. Reminds me of the other 2 CB projects we had in the past, one of which crashed and burned. Actually I think we had 2 that crashed and burned. The EuroCB didn't make it last time around either
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Re: Northern Community Bow
« Reply #166 on: February 24, 2007, 11:34:49 am »
Jamie, Will you tell us about the cresting? Very unique and good looking.   Pat

ps. your footings look ok too!   lol
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« Reply #167 on: February 24, 2007, 12:07:22 pm »
pat aside from doing them by hand they were easy. i use paint markers and just draw them on. i keep telling myself to build a cresting jig and im sure in a few years i'll get to it. lol

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Re: Northern Community Bow
« Reply #168 on: February 24, 2007, 12:09:53 pm »
Why bother Jamie. Just something else to clutter up the shop. With work like that you don't need no stinking cresting jig.   Pat
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Re: Northern Community Bow
« Reply #169 on: February 25, 2007, 09:01:45 am »
heres the fletching for the stone points . the field points are getting some turkey feathers a friend of mine dyed red.


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Re: Northern Community Bow
« Reply #170 on: February 25, 2007, 09:04:06 am »
very nice.  i like how the color of the wrap is repeated in the cresting.

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Re: Northern Community Bow
« Reply #171 on: February 25, 2007, 11:25:39 am »
Very nice, Jamie. You yanks do pretty good work.   Pat
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC

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Re: Northern Community Bow
« Reply #172 on: February 25, 2007, 11:35:35 am »
 Awesome Jamie,  The colors are great.  What do you all think for color of the points.  I made a couple yesturday out of some striped obsidian. But I have black, black with gray strips, clear/smokey brown, mahogany(black w/ red), punkin(brownish orange), gold flake obsidian and some rainbow. It's some times hard to see the rainbow colors in the points though. Also do we want these square based or barbed ?  I know many states that you can't hunt with barbed.   Keenan
  I'll dig through the rock pile I may be able to find a piece of red jasper big enough.
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Re: Northern Community Bow
« Reply #173 on: February 25, 2007, 12:03:00 pm »
That tiller looks gret Matt.
Dane, I really enjoyed the posts on weaving. Just seeing that loom made me remember my summer working in the weaving room at Callaway Mills here in JawJa. We had 4 rows of 6 of the large industrial models of looms. My job was dolpher. That meant I went down the row with a full cart of thread bobbin's on one side of me and a cart of empty bobin spindles on the other side. I took the empties off with one hand and put full bobbins on with the other. LOL's...thats was a loooong summer. ;D and those shuttles could get dangerous sometimes and fly off too.
Thanks Dane.

Thanks for the kind words, JPitt. Sorry, I've been so busy with work, I have had almost zero time for the board, or for anything else lately.

Those industrial looms are facinating beasts. They have a museum in Lowell, the Boot (sp?) mill, a preserved 19th century mill that is a National Park now, and when they crank up all 20 or so looms, it is almost deafeing, and the room shakes.

I finished card weaving a border, and so just have to get to sewing the sock together, then starting the Southern boy's sock. They saved the tater sack, thankfully.

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Re: Northern Community Bow
« Reply #174 on: February 25, 2007, 01:20:40 pm »
Wow, those arrows are really something Jamie!
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Re: Northern Community Bow
« Reply #175 on: February 25, 2007, 08:23:34 pm »
Jamie, if those were my arrows, I would be terrified of using them at all, for fear of breaking or loosing them. Your work is fantastic.

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Re: Northern Community Bow
« Reply #176 on: February 25, 2007, 08:27:41 pm »
compliments from fellas who do work as good as you all do means a lot. thank you.

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Re: Northern Community Bow
« Reply #177 on: February 25, 2007, 10:32:12 pm »

Dane, what's that...getting ready to start the southern bow sock? I guess you got some gray yarn in stock? ;D
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Re: Northern Community Bow
« Reply #178 on: February 26, 2007, 06:52:31 am »
Don't worry about a thing, Greg. The materials are all ready, it is just getting a bit of time to get it woven. I came off a 35 days or so straight with no time off, and after one Sunday off, here I am back to a few more weeks with no time off. I'll get it done, even if I have to skip some sleep, though. I'm already a zombie - "must...eat...brains." Can't get much worse :)

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Re: Northern Community Bow
« Reply #179 on: February 26, 2007, 08:52:33 am »
finished. they will go out tomorrow. have snow to plow today