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Offline Bitterguy

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My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
« on: April 07, 2013, 01:29:39 pm »
As some of you know I was having Pearl and some of the other nice folks here on PA show me how to make a bow through this thread(http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,37695.msg499029.html#msg499029). well I finally got the finish on the bow all said and done. It may not be the prettiest but it shoots so here it is:





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Offline Del the cat

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Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2013, 01:31:36 pm »
Good to get that first one under your belt.
Looks pretty good to me, a tad bendy in the middle, but if that's the short bow style you were after that's fine.
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Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2013, 01:39:59 pm »
What Del said!  8)
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Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2013, 01:42:39 pm »
Looks nice, congrats.
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2013, 01:51:50 pm »
Got the next one started yet? What are you waiting for? Im glad you seen it through to the end and didnt give up. Good job
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Offline Bitterguy

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Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2013, 01:56:54 pm »
Quote from: PEARL DRUMS on April 07, 2013, 01:51:50 pm
Got the next one started yet? What are you waiting for? Im glad you seen it through to the end and didnt give up. Good job
I really want to build a penobscot bow but all the info I can find doesn't Gove any dimensions and seems really vague
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Offline burn em up chuck

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Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2013, 02:04:39 pm »
    nicely bent for a first bow, like pearl said when can we see the next  ;D
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Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2013, 02:12:46 pm »
Idk if Penobscot bows are very hard to make but regardless i would make a couple more normal bows. Congratz on making your first bow, it looks great, but Pearly here did pretty much walk u through the whole thing. Now based on the knowledge taught to you, try to make a few more bows by yourself. Idk about you but i personally learn best by doing things myself, and you need to experiment and find out what works best for you. That's how each bowyer develops his own style.
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Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2013, 02:32:19 pm »
Way to go!!! Keep up the good work, they just get betterer and betterer :laugh:
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Offline Jmilbrandt

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Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2013, 02:43:43 pm »
Glad to see it worked out. Good job! Now let's see number 2!
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Offline Gordon

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Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
« Reply #10 on: April 07, 2013, 02:58:14 pm »
That looks pretty darn good. Congratulations!
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Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
« Reply #11 on: April 07, 2013, 03:16:59 pm »
Nice circular bend on that one!! ;)
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Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
« Reply #12 on: April 07, 2013, 10:56:59 pm »
Good stufff looks like a great shooter
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Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2013, 08:04:25 am »
Congrats on your first,nothing like that,bend looks pretty good to me. :)
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Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
« Reply #14 on: April 08, 2013, 09:16:29 am »
What Pappy said!

And I'm with Zion: don't try to make a Penobscot as second bow. You should get a lot more experience to make such a difficult design. I have seen Penobscot made by Mark St. Louis, perhaps you can get dimensions from him.

Again congrats on the first success!
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