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Offline Stickhead

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Re: Stone age bow- Pics added, page 2
« Reply #30 on: July 14, 2014, 12:47:09 pm »
Very impressive!!

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Re: Stone age bow- Pics added, page 2
« Reply #31 on: July 14, 2014, 04:32:23 pm »
Absolute awesome work!
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Re: Stone age bow- Pics added, page 2
« Reply #32 on: July 14, 2014, 04:39:27 pm »
That is as cool as it gets!!!!! Hope you get a chance to get it bloody ;)
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Re: Stone age bow- Pics added, page 2
« Reply #33 on: July 14, 2014, 06:20:57 pm »
Very nice, Ryan.
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« Reply #34 on: July 14, 2014, 06:50:16 pm »
Awsome.  Like it a bunch.
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« Reply #35 on: July 14, 2014, 07:33:06 pm »
i soooo wanna try this...one question..now that you have..would ya do it again...amazingly cool!!
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Re: Stone age bow- Pics added, page 2
« Reply #36 on: July 14, 2014, 08:39:14 pm »
Awesome bow and accomplishment. It's on my bucket bow list for sure. Is there alot of snake wood around you ;)

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Re: Stone age bow- Pics added, page 2
« Reply #37 on: July 15, 2014, 09:11:39 am »
thanks guys
4dog-  yeah I would definitely do another one. It's a lot of tedious work but so long as you are not in a rush or trying to muscle through it, it's very doable.
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Re: Stone age bow- Pics added, page 2
« Reply #38 on: August 07, 2014, 08:22:45 pm »
Cool bow Ryan!

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Re: Stone age bow- Pics added, page 2
« Reply #39 on: August 07, 2014, 10:04:39 pm »
Beautiful.   8)
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Re: Stone age bow- Pics added, page 2
« Reply #40 on: August 08, 2014, 05:10:57 am »
Beautiful bow Ryan. I have always admired you work. I do have question. Did you seal the bow with some sort of primitive sealant like bear grease or more readily available wild pig lard etc? just kinda curious.

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Re: Stone age bow- Pics added, page 2
« Reply #41 on: August 08, 2014, 09:26:04 am »
thanks,  no I didnt seal the bow with anything, for 2 reasons..   first, my choice is already super dense and sinks in water. So by my justification, if it is more dense than water, I don't think there is too much worry of it taking on excess moisture.   Second reason is, it shouldn't see any wet weather anyhow. With a sinew string and non modern sealed sinew wraps on my arrows, like primitive man, I wont be hunting in wet weather.  I also have a hunch that sealing bows is more of a modern idea than primitive. I am not entirely convinced that grease doesn't actually add moisture to wood. Although I may be wrong one way or another, who knows, So far so good with not having a sealant on the bow.   I've made some whitewood bows in the past without any sealant, more or less to see what happens, and they never suffered any excess string follow than any regular sealed bow... so again, I am not real convinced it does much unless you are actually hunting in the rain.  All speculation of course.
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Re: Stone age bow- Pics added, page 2
« Reply #42 on: August 08, 2014, 01:56:35 pm »
I agree with that Ryan.  I never sealed any of my early bows.  I also won't seal some of the Plains style bows I make.  Texas is pretty dry so I won't be forced to shooting in wet weather as a rule.  Never seen a problem with leaving them natural and yours looks great this way.
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Re: Stone age bow- Pics added, page 2
« Reply #43 on: August 08, 2014, 02:10:06 pm »
Talking about primitive archery! Nice work, awesome bow
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Re: Stone age bow- Pics added, page 2
« Reply #44 on: August 09, 2014, 06:30:58 am »
Thanks Ryan for the answer. Sounds sensible and authentic.