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Offline Pat B

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Re: Eastern woodland bow
« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2008, 01:57:03 pm »
Mike, beautiful tiller. Actually that is a better back drop than most use.     Pat
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Re: Eastern woodland bow
« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2008, 02:29:14 pm »
Very nice!   I like it a lot.  Wells
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Offline Mechslasher

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Re: Eastern woodland bow
« Reply #17 on: February 17, 2008, 04:32:43 pm »
very nice!!  tiller looks spot on.  are you gripping the bow in the center?  bottom limb looks a bit longer than the upper.
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Offline MikaelMazz

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Re: Eastern woodland bow
« Reply #18 on: February 17, 2008, 07:22:36 pm »
I might be holding it a little above center. The weather has been not so great for shooting so I am still not used to holding it in the center.
Thanks for the compliments,
             Mikael

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Re: Eastern woodland bow
« Reply #19 on: February 17, 2008, 10:09:06 pm »
Simple and beautiful, I love it.....Brian
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: Eastern woodland bow
« Reply #20 on: February 17, 2008, 10:34:03 pm »
Looks well tillered. Let us know how it shots. Jawge
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Re: Eastern woodland bow
« Reply #21 on: February 18, 2008, 09:29:11 am »
Very nice ,tiller looks good to me,simple and effective.Nice job. :)
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Offline Woodland Roamer

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Re: Eastern woodland bow
« Reply #22 on: February 18, 2008, 10:16:14 am »
Really nice bow, tiller and braced profile look great!

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Re: Eastern woodland bow
« Reply #23 on: February 18, 2008, 12:32:17 pm »
Very well done, good job.
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Re: Eastern woodland bow
« Reply #24 on: February 18, 2008, 01:09:58 pm »
very nice!

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Re: Eastern woodland bow
« Reply #25 on: February 18, 2008, 03:20:31 pm »
Nice job, very capable of most anything you'd want to use it for.
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Re: Eastern woodland bow
« Reply #26 on: February 18, 2008, 03:34:16 pm »
Nice bow Mike, looks very primitive! Great! What kinda quiver did you make? Looks even very primitive.
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Re: Eastern woodland bow
« Reply #27 on: February 18, 2008, 03:39:46 pm »
Tiller look sgreat Mike. Nice bow.    Danny
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Re: Eastern woodland bow
« Reply #28 on: February 18, 2008, 09:24:52 pm »
Thanks every one.
You can read a little more about my quiver in my arrows post on the arrows section. It is made of hickory bark. Accually from the same tree as the bow. I used my knife to shave off the grey bark and that revealed the nice tan bark underneath. After that I just wetted the dried bark and put it around a log and let it dry stiff. It is not stiched in a cylinder. Then I made a bottom out of twined corn husks and sewed that into the bottom. It is very simple and would be very easy to make with only stone tools. 
The bow shoots great. Very accurate. I read that you had to spine arrows to make them accurate but I did not and they fligh very straight. Maybe because the bow is only one inch wide.
    Mikael
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