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Offline Old timber bows

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Re: #100 and #101
« Reply #15 on: August 25, 2011, 01:20:38 am »
Nice bows good job keep up the good work
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Offline soy

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« Reply #16 on: August 25, 2011, 03:40:15 am »
Nice pair for such an occasion ...congratulations
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Offline Cameroo

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« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2011, 03:44:25 am »
Congrats Ken! I know you'll continue to inspire all of us with the next 100 :)  With all that practice, you should be able to hammer them out in half the time ;)
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« Reply #18 on: August 25, 2011, 07:50:14 am »
Congrats on both bows,nice work,good looking tiller and on 100+ club. You done it in a hurry. :) :) I knew you have been turning them out. :) :) Keep um coming. :)
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: #100 and #101
« Reply #19 on: August 25, 2011, 10:49:20 am »
Wow! Congratulations on quite a milestone. You made 100+ bows in less than 2 years? Jawge
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Offline ken75

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« Reply #20 on: August 25, 2011, 11:29:24 am »
thanks ya'll for the kind words , we joke when the new guys show up about "welcome to the addiction" but theres a lot of truth to it . i broke about 15 bows before reading the instructions and finally completing one , and once i got started i felt like i needed to try every design i could read about or dream up. thanks to all of yall for direction and inspiration, and especially to Rich for answering many questions at all hours of the day and night.it was nice to lean on his years of experience and knowledge.
Ken
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Offline Arrowind

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« Reply #21 on: August 28, 2011, 03:26:29 am »
So are you going to change your name to Ken100?  Ken101?  Next thing you know it will be Ken1000.   Like others have said both bows are very nice but the tiller on that black one is just AMAZING.  Good work on both!  Congrats on breaking 100! Wait I mean MAKING 100.  Just AWESOME.

My father-in-law asked me the other day "...what are you going to do with all these bows? You gonna sell any or are you just trying to see how many you can make?"   He also said recently " You need to stop making bows and check the oil in your car once in a while..." 

He thinks I neglect things that "need" to be done while I'm wasting time making bows. 

I never started this with the thought of making a few bucks.  I just thought it would be cool to make a bow. 

I'm still a newbie to bow making and it's just something I need to do. Yep I got the addiction you mentioned.  It's just enjoyable.  Nothing like shooting the first arrow from a bow you just made.  Or going through the tillering process and feeling the excitement of transforming a peice of wood into a bow.  Or when you string it for the first time, or....I think I have 5 in the works right now not to mention the additional 11 or so I have the local boyscouts working on. I can't finish them fast enough before I just have to start another one!

You are one of the people that have really inspired me on these forums and I thank you for it.  Thanks for sharing your work with us!
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Offline ken75

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« Reply #22 on: August 28, 2011, 03:28:33 pm »
thanks arrowind for the nice reply . i hearya on others understanding whay we do it. no name change though 75 is the year i was born. glad to hear others like my work
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Offline medicinewheel

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« Reply #23 on: August 28, 2011, 05:02:38 pm »
Quite a landmark, congrats!
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Offline dbb

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« Reply #24 on: August 28, 2011, 06:22:30 pm »
Wow 100 bows in two years...impressive!
No wonder you make beautiful bows with all that practice ;)
Thats like one every week if you take xmas and new year off  :o

Well done and congratulations!

/Mikael
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Offline 4dog

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« Reply #25 on: March 17, 2014, 03:33:50 pm »
happy centennial!!   make more...lol....congrats!
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Offline IdahoMatt

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« Reply #26 on: March 17, 2014, 03:39:14 pm »
Very cool, I have quite a long way to get to those numbers.  Very nice couple of bows.  I really like tha CM.  Great job
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Offline Badger

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« Reply #27 on: March 17, 2014, 03:48:24 pm »
  Well you certainly learned how to tiller a bow while making the 99 before these. Congrats on the triple digits.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: #100 and #101
« Reply #28 on: March 17, 2014, 04:26:41 pm »
Unfortunately Ken hasn't been around for a few years now. He did build great bows...and prolifically.
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Offline BOWMAN53

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« Reply #29 on: March 17, 2014, 04:44:48 pm »
i wish he was around, i got alot of cm questions.
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