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Offline bubby

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Re: New here... My first bow
« Reply #15 on: July 03, 2015, 11:50:54 pm »
failure is an option, everyone fails, it's how you handle it that matters.
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: New here... My first bow
« Reply #16 on: July 03, 2015, 11:57:41 pm »
I am laughing at myself right now so hard the tears are pouring down my face. 

I ran into a perfect grain pine 1x4 last winter and bought it thinking for giggles I would make a pyramid pine bow and post it with the intent of putting it in the bow of the month competition. 
 
Now here comes a newby and shows me up before I ever so much as put a tool to the wood!!! And pretty respectable tiller, to boot.  Well played, my new friend, well played!  Please continue posting, I look forward to watching your skills grow. 
Guns have triggers. Bicycles have wheels. Trees and bows have wooden limbs.

Offline TolkienFan

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Re: New here... My first bow
« Reply #17 on: July 04, 2015, 12:13:26 am »
I am laughing at myself right now so hard the tears are pouring down my face. 

I ran into a perfect grain pine 1x4 last winter and bought it thinking for giggles I would make a pyramid pine bow and post it with the intent of putting it in the bow of the month competition. 
 
Now here comes a newby and shows me up before I ever so much as put a tool to the wood!!! And pretty respectable tiller, to boot.  Well played, my new friend, well played!  Please continue posting, I look forward to watching your skills grow. 

Haha you should still do it. I would love to see what you could do with a pine board. This one was NOT perfect at all. Lots of run offs and really really soft. I didn't realize it was so soft till I tried working an another type of wood and it felt like stone after the pine.
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Down from the door where it began.
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: New here... My first bow
« Reply #18 on: July 04, 2015, 10:34:31 pm »
Yeah, but you stole my thunder and really really set the bar pretty high when your bow not only had decent tiller, but survived. 

Think of it as picking a fight with an old guy.  If you win, there is no glory in it.  And if you lose, you look like a wet fart feels!

Aw heck, I will make it.  And it will look like my usual work, pretty middling stuff at best!
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Offline TolkienFan

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Re: New here... My first bow
« Reply #19 on: July 22, 2015, 09:13:21 pm »
Haha just now seeing your post. I can't wait to see it!
“The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can.”