2020 Virtual Bowmaking Festival

[Bob Barnes]

mmattockx~ looking good...you don't have any problems with the porous red oak sucking moisture from glue and then needing a few days to dry?  Just curious... no wonder everything takes me so long.   

Tillering with one eye requires time and now some good eyes for help...    I know what I see, or think I see... suggestions before going the last few inches tomorrow?  Got it to about 22-23" still working a bit on the top limb but it seems to spring right back so far.  The 2nd picture is immediately after a very long and slow tillering session.  Thanks.

[PEARL DRUMS]

Lots of good stuff going on boys. Looking good all around. I started fletching some shafts for the new bow I posted a few pages back. Needed some lighter spined stock. I think tomorrow morning I will get back on a bow.   

Good to see you tonite Gregor. I think I'll pour me a glass of dessert bourbon, you know the stuff.

[PEARL DRUMS]

Bob, Id say a few inches off each fade could bend a bit more. That will get you a good 1.5"more draw. Maybe 2".

[Badly Bent]

Hey Chris, you gonna drink that candy bourbon are you? BTW, I really like the copperhead skinned bow you finished, nice artistic touch on those limb ends.

Thats gonna be a good looking bow Mr Barnes, wonderful snake character in those limbs.

[EdwardS]

Badly bent, if I can get my white oak untwisted I want to do a scalloped bow.  How did you cut those? 

[RyanR]

Good to see you on here Greg.

[BowEd]

Well holy smokes....Lots of bows from everywhere it seems.Recent and ones from the past getting finished up.All pretty impressive.Good thing about pulling shavings I never run out of fire starter for the stove.....Ha Ha.I finished my cat quiver made with a real cat.Need a carrying strap yet.

[bjrogg]

Great to see you Greg. I sure hope we can do Marshall.

Yesterday was frustrating. I had been working on my planter for three days. Once I thought I had it fixed for sure. Then next morning it wasn’t working again. Hate those intermittent problems. Then had expert out for half a day. That’s going to be a nice bill. He thought he had it, but next morning it wasn’t working again. Yesterday another expert. I was suspecting a part. It was what I suspected. Of course that was the part I was hoping it wasn’t. $2800 + 2 service calls. Then I decided to put on some fertilizer on my wheat. I put on liquid 28% with my sprayer. I had already tested it with water a couple weeks ago and everything worked perfect. Of course I didn’t make it all the way around the field and seal went out on hydraulic motor. I fortunately had a spare. There goes another $2100.

Today everything is working.

Bjrogg

That’s a sweet cat quiver Ed

Anybody seen Dbar?

[bjrogg]

Oh Bob I see the same thing Pearl does.
Bjrogg

Ps love that front profile.

[Badly Bent]

Hi Ryan, how you doing my friend? I like the looks of the bow you have going here.

Edward, I use a 1" wide 1/2 round rasp/file, to cut the scallops.

Good looking cat quiver BowEd.

Here's a couple pics of the semi bendy handle osage I finished tillering and shot in today, 37# @ 24".  Made this one for my youngest daughter, last bow I made for her was when she was around 13 yrs old I think, she's 26 now. Didn't take any work in progress, or braced, or full draw pics. It got a coat of varnish at the end of the day today, if its dry enough to string up tomorrow I'll bring it home and have the wife take a pic at full draw. I have some smoked tanned deer hide from Paulsemp for the handle wrap when its done.

[Bob Barnes]

thanks guys...that's the problem I always have... I will try to fix it some tomorrow.

Ed, that is a great looking quiver... and a BobCat ta' boot.   

[mmattockx]

mmattockx~ looking good...you don't have any problems with the porous red oak sucking moisture from glue and then needing a few days to dry?  Just curious... no wonder everything takes me so long.   

This is my first red oak bow, so I can't say (only my second bow ever, so I am about as green as can be at this). I used titebond III and put a light sizing coat on the wood before the backing went on and it certainly didn't feel wet this morning at all. I live in central Alberta and we are near desert levels of humidity so everything dries too fast in general.


Mark

[Deerhunter21]

Hey badly bent!! its good to see you!!!

[RyanR]

Nice looking bow Greg. I don't know how you come up with some of your tip ideas ,but I really like them. It's one of the first things I look at on your bows.

[RyanR]

Well here's the HHB I started today. It's been awhile since I have worked this wood, but I kinda like it. It's a little softer than Osage which is a nice break. I may have to go cut some next weekend. Tomorrow I hope to get back to the Osage bow and shape the grip and overlays and do the final sanding.