Best Tool in the Cookie Cutter Bowyers Toolbox?

[huisme]

From tree to bow

axe
chainsaw
iron wedges and sledge
draw knife
machete
a little more draw knife
rat tail rasp
quite a bit of farriers rasp
machete again, this time for scraping
Old-Timer knife for the itty bitty scrapes
sandpaper
modern finishes and string because I'm just not that hardcore 

I think my machete gets the most use. If I had to I'm pretty sure I could get decent at using nothing but the machete, especially if I made a magnetic clip-on handle for the blade to use it as a draw knife.

[PaulN/KS]

Patience.... 

[dwardo]

I just bought and setup my first ever Bandsaw. I am very, very taken with it.

I managed to go through all of my lumber in one day and turn it into 2" wide 1" thick staves, or 9" long firewood in one day!!!!!!

That would have taken me a week and several cortizone injections.

[lostarrow]

My brain 

Where can I get one of those?

 Apperently they can be quite hard to come by these days. You'll find most don't even bother trying to acquire one. . I find the best are the older models made up from the parts of many others.

[Gus]

My brain 

Where can I get one of those?

 Apperently they can be quite hard to come by these days. You'll find most don't even bother trying to acquire one. . I find the best are the older models made up from the parts of many others.

How do you use it, as a Wedge or Hammer?

 

-gus

[Tom Leemans]

4dog - I have completed a couple BBO bows and a selfbow with hand tools and my vise was a quick clamp and a 6X6 post resting on two saw horses.

[Marc St Louis]

My brain 

Where can I get one of those?

 Apperently they can be quite hard to come by these days. You'll find most don't even bother trying to acquire one. . I find the best are the older models made up from the parts of many others.

How do you use it, as a Wedge or Hammer?

 

-gus

It's a multi purpose tool limited by your imagination