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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: more work with the guys
« Reply #15 on: February 22, 2013, 10:01:07 pm »
Quote from: alitraci12 on February 22, 2013, 08:45:08 pm
J.W's bow is going to be nice your doin a nice job on it, think he will like it alot. If not Iwill take it. lol see you on bowday

Console yourself with a big bowl of NOT A CHANCE!   ;D

I'd consider myself blessed to get a bucket of iowabow's sweepings off his shop floor and be pleased to pay the shipping.  For that matter, I'll drive over to pick up that bow so we can get some pics shooting it in your yard!  See you in May!
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Re: more work with the guys
« Reply #16 on: February 22, 2013, 10:23:27 pm »
Heck ya, put them guys to work!  ;D
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Re: more work with the guys
« Reply #17 on: February 22, 2013, 10:37:44 pm »
On sunday some of the first guys from the first group are  coming over to help with the new group ...should be a lot of fun.
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« Reply #18 on: February 22, 2013, 10:44:39 pm »
Quote from: iowabow on February 22, 2013, 10:37:44 pm
On sunday some of the first guys from the first group are  coming over to help with the new group ...should be a lot of fun.

Student now teacher must become  ;D

Nice work Iowa bow!
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Re: more work with the guys
« Reply #19 on: February 23, 2013, 05:35:11 pm »
Wood envy!  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: more work with the guys
« Reply #20 on: February 24, 2013, 08:35:54 am »
Looking forward  :(to today. My first class and my second class are going to gather here at the house for a day of bow building. I worked a ring yesterday and applied a layer of glue on this stave that I plan to bring to the classic. Today we are going to finish tillering their bow and working out the
Also going to teach them how to split a log

we will be dropping arrows on the targets by night fall
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Offline jr 2bow

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Re: more work with the guys
« Reply #21 on: February 25, 2013, 08:03:20 am »
thats the other half of the one im workin on it looks like its gonna be another nice bow
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Re: more work with the guys
« Reply #22 on: February 25, 2013, 08:41:58 am »
Nice job,way to pass it on John. :) Good looking staves yall have.Should make some fine bows. :)
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Re: more work with the guys
« Reply #23 on: February 25, 2013, 10:27:11 am »
Good times and bad but its all about learning. We had a bow fail after heating it to align the string. I called Will to figure out what happened and because of winter the mositure in the bow was low so it seperated with a crack horizonal to the limb. I wanted to share this with others because I never saw this before. What we should have done was wait a couple if days before we pulled it to allow the stave to rehydrate. Live and learn but hate to see it in a new bow at had a great tiller.
Now for the good ....Paul's stave is looking great and should make a nice bow.

Tom's bow is done and got it first shoots yesterday!
So good times on sunday here in Iowa!!!!
Also Scott stopped in as he was passing through.
Annette made us all lunch had it was great!
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Re: more work with the guys
« Reply #24 on: February 25, 2013, 11:18:30 am »
You boys are havin' way too much fun :laugh:
Pretty slick to get that pic of the arrow going through the chrono'
I hope you tidied up afterwards :-*  ;)
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« Reply #25 on: February 25, 2013, 11:29:10 am »
That was fun, John. Glad I got the chance to stop in and mess things up for ya.  >:D ;D 
That's a cool shot with the chrono, but looks like the limbs are off balance somehow. Never seen that before...

Tell Annette lunch was GREAT (and the real reason I swung by. ::) )
Let's do this again in a few weeks want to?!?

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Re: more work with the guys
« Reply #26 on: February 25, 2013, 11:43:08 am »
Quote from: Stringman on February 25, 2013, 11:29:10 am
... but looks like the limbs are off balance somehow. Never seen that before...
Scott
That's probably just an artefact of the frame scan in the digital camera...
I've seen weird stuff like that when grabbing a frame from video too. I think it shows up on vertical lines most, which is why the arrow looks ok.
I've seen pics where the string shows up as a huge S shape.
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Ooooh just noticed that old style vice (vise) in the penultimate shot... that's really cool.
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Re: more work with the guys
« Reply #27 on: February 25, 2013, 05:57:39 pm »
Not sure about messing things up?

 Just kinda  running things like twin oaks with Gary Davis where we all have one idea about a particular design so they learn one method together and learn from each other in the process. Kinda like having parents on the same page so the kids dont get mixed mesages. Next time we need time to be on the same page for the student. We need to pick one design for them all to work with because if their bow fails then they can see how the process worked correctly with the other student  that shared the same design. This helps them see where they went wrong and where it went right with others in the class. It is very good to have help and it was appreciated.

As far a the chrono well it is the wonder of the modern camera ...can't always believe what you
see Scott. Look at the string on the bottom limb it appears two be cut in to and broke! Kinda a fun picture.
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Re: more work with the guys
« Reply #28 on: February 25, 2013, 07:34:16 pm »
Oh man!  Now I'm not only jealous but hungry too!   :-\
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Re: more work with the guys
« Reply #29 on: February 25, 2013, 07:40:53 pm »
Quote from: jackcrafty on February 25, 2013, 07:34:16 pm
Oh man!  Now I'm not only jealous but hungry too!   :-\
Lol dont be jealous our band is only 6 but counting. We lost one to the military. Thinking of getting another group together this .summer
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