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Offline bubby

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Re: Native American bow build challenge and showcase
« Reply #75 on: September 17, 2016, 10:41:46 pm »
 Here's one i built a few years back using measurements from an Ishi bow and adjusting according to how he measured his bows for length and width

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Re: Native American bow build challenge and showcase
« Reply #76 on: September 18, 2016, 07:54:22 am »
Sweet!  What kind of paints did you use on this one bubby?
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Re: Native American bow build challenge and showcase
« Reply #77 on: September 18, 2016, 11:37:29 am »
All i had was craft paints next time i shiuld use pigment paint
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Re: Native American bow build challenge and showcase
« Reply #78 on: September 18, 2016, 12:32:49 pm »
Hey, I think it looks really good, paint and all. You know, by the reservation period all sorts of paints were used. The earth pigments are are cool though.
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Re: Native American bow build challenge and showcase
« Reply #79 on: September 18, 2016, 03:05:01 pm »
Thanks slim
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Re: Native American bow build challenge and showcase
« Reply #80 on: September 18, 2016, 06:52:36 pm »
Thunder, you said arrows and quiver optional, so I am working backwards. I have a stick picked out for my bow, but that will come later. I'm hoping to have this quiver completed in a couple of weeks. I still have quite a ways to go on it. This is Dictionary's sneak peek. I'll do arrows once the quiver is complete, and then the bow.  Curtis
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Re: Native American bow build challenge and showcase
« Reply #81 on: September 18, 2016, 07:09:30 pm »
I quit!
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Re: Native American bow build challenge and showcase
« Reply #82 on: September 18, 2016, 07:16:28 pm »
Thunder,
       Sort of the same situation with the old man. I have built a couple Great Lakes bows to get "warmed up" and am also working on a Otter quiver and bowcase, and some split timber ash arrows.
I'll post the plain bows if you are interested..... I am taking this challenge very seriously.
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Re: Native American bow build challenge and showcase
« Reply #83 on: September 18, 2016, 08:35:54 pm »
Alright, not quiting. But that quiver is just....to cool.
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Offline dylanholderman

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Re: Native American bow build challenge and showcase
« Reply #84 on: September 18, 2016, 08:45:50 pm »
I might have ruined this stave  :-[
I steamed backset(I thing that's the right term) into it and it looked good but once I got it back to a low brace again all the backset pulled out, and I found I can easily push it back and forth and it will hold where ever I leave it :-X

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Re: Native American bow build challenge and showcase
« Reply #85 on: September 19, 2016, 01:04:28 pm »
Quote from: tipi stuff on September 18, 2016, 06:52:36 pm
Thunder, you said arrows and quiver optional, so I am working backwards. I have a stick picked out for my bow, but that will come later. I'm hoping to have this quiver completed in a couple of weeks. I still have quite a ways to go on it. This is Dictionary's sneak peek. I'll do arrows once the quiver is complete, and then the bow.  Curtis
That is beautiful, can't wait to see the rest of it.
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Re: Native American bow build challenge and showcase
« Reply #86 on: September 19, 2016, 01:08:35 pm »
Quote from: half eye on September 18, 2016, 07:16:28 pm
Thunder,
       Sort of the same situation with the old man. I have built a couple Great Lakes bows to get "warmed up" and am also working on a Otter quiver and bowcase, and some split timber ash arrows.
I'll post the plain bows if you are interested..... I am taking this challenge very seriously.
rich
Hey Rich,
Post whenever you'd like, I've been tied up with one of my biggest clients since the day after I posted the challenge. I have managed to get 2 staves cleaned up and ready to go, but wont be able to get much done until this weekend.

Cheers
Thunder
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Offline Oglala Bowyer

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Re: Native American bow build challenge and showcase
« Reply #87 on: September 19, 2016, 01:13:00 pm »
Dylan I would recommend the next time you leave the handle area a little thicker for back set.  This helps cut down on the stave wanting to straighten out. 
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Re: Native American bow build challenge and showcase
« Reply #88 on: September 19, 2016, 01:15:58 pm »
Quote from: bubby on September 17, 2016, 10:41:46 pm
Here's one i built a few years back using measurements from an Ishi bow and adjusting according to how he measured his bows for length and width



Hey bubby
That is some awesome work...how about posting some specs? Wood? Length? Etc?...curious minds want to know.  ;)

Cheers
Thunder
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Offline half eye

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Re: Native American bow build challenge and showcase
« Reply #89 on: September 19, 2016, 05:43:28 pm »
Thought I would post my "warm-up" efforts. I made a couple of bows, which are replicas of Eastern bows in museums. Both are made from scraps from the ironwood bow I recently made for Turtle.

First bow is a copy of a Bodewadmi bow located at the NMAI. Mine is 51", Ironwood self bow, 44#@25", made with stone tools, stained with boiled tobacco, and the finish is pitch/bees wax/ and grease. My string is single ply raw-hide but differs from the original in that mine does not have the "hair on". I think it is a fair representation of a plain Great Lakes style.

The second bow is also ironwood, 47" sinew backed double curved. The bow is NOT skinned but is painted with oxide pigment in glue, then finished with the usual pitch and grease. Made with steel tools. The bow is painted in the common (Ojibwe) Chippewa manner of solid color with bands at mid limb....I reversed the color palate from a actual portrait picture....

Hope you like them. PS: now on to the serious work.
rich
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