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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: bowralph on February 23, 2010, 05:43:43 pm

Title: yew self bow
Post by: bowralph on February 23, 2010, 05:43:43 pm
hi all ,
at first ,i like to appologise for my english .
i´m spying a few months on you ,seeing great craftmanship and art you´ve been an inspiration to me all the time
nevertheless i´d like to show some work of mine
this is a stave wich nearly was decided to be fire wood then it took nearly two years from roughing out to finishing
it is 63 ntn draws 36@28
ralph

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Title: Re: yew self bow
Post by: John K on February 23, 2010, 05:47:35 pm
Great looking bow Ralph ! Lots of character, i like it !
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Post by: riarcher on February 23, 2010, 05:55:42 pm
Very nice!
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Post by: Del the cat on February 23, 2010, 06:00:47 pm
Beautiful bow   :)
Del
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Post by: Josh on February 23, 2010, 06:09:54 pm
wow!!!!!  :o  that is a very nice bow, good save man!
 I love the character  in it!    :)
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Post by: OldBow on February 23, 2010, 06:27:10 pm
That is just an excellent character bow! And bookmarked, too, for Feb Self BOM fun.
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Post by: Pat B on February 23, 2010, 06:35:50 pm
Welcome Ralph. Looks like you will fit right in here at PA.  Beautiful yew character bow.
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Post by: medicinewheel on February 23, 2010, 06:41:38 pm
That a very nice bow Ralph!
Nice colour yew; where did you get it from??
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Post by: rileyconcrete on February 23, 2010, 06:43:48 pm
Wow! That is awsome, I love it. Good job. Welcome to the message boards!

Tell
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Post by: George Tsoukalas on February 23, 2010, 08:24:40 pm
Wow! That's  a great bow. Very nicely done. Jawge
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Post by: Keenan on February 23, 2010, 08:33:44 pm
Ralph, Welcome to Primitive Archer. That is a very, very nice character bow.  It takes some serious skill to turn out that good of bow from a stave with so much character. I'm very impressed with your work and looking forward to seeing some more of your bows. Congratulations.     Keenan
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Post by: mullet on February 23, 2010, 08:34:46 pm
 Welcome Ralph. And a great looking, challenge of a bow.
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Post by: El Destructo on February 23, 2010, 09:10:21 pm
Nice Job on a Gnarly Piece of Wood! What's Next.......... ;D
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Post by: Josh on February 23, 2010, 09:32:49 pm
...do you have a braced picture of the bow?  I would really like to see the brace profile if you have one!  Again, great bow man, lots of talent to make one from that piece of wood.  :)
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Post by: Marc St Louis on February 23, 2010, 09:51:14 pm
You've done a great job getting a bow out of that piece of Yew.  Well done
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Post by: Mark Smeltzer on February 23, 2010, 09:54:18 pm
Nice job!
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Post by: Timo on February 23, 2010, 10:32:43 pm
nice work. love the arrow pass ;)
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Post by: woodstick on February 23, 2010, 10:49:37 pm
that is some fine work. luv them character bows.
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Post by: Blacktail on February 23, 2010, 10:53:56 pm
yeh,that is some great work..i love the handle..you can come out to Oregon any time and whittle some wood with us..john
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Post by: adb on February 24, 2010, 12:46:36 am
WOW!! Nice job on a character stave. Welcome aboard.
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Post by: elk country rp on February 24, 2010, 12:49:26 am
beautiful!

it looks like it was worth the time & effort for sure!
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Post by: bowralph on February 24, 2010, 04:06:41 am
thank you for your very very friendly words  i nearly go red .

the stave was cut in a garden in a liittle town called hilden here in germany

again thanks a lot
greetings from Solingen
ralph
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Post by: Badger on February 24, 2010, 04:26:59 am
Very nice job on that one. Steve
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Post by: Pappy on February 24, 2010, 06:04:03 am
Very nice on a challenging piece of wood.Love that character. :) :)
   Pappy
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Post by: AndrewS on February 24, 2010, 08:32:26 am
A nice bow! I like the character...... and you are on the right way back to the right side ;D
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Post by: Cromm on February 24, 2010, 08:37:58 am
Welcome here and great work.
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Post by: dantolin on February 24, 2010, 03:27:17 pm
Wow!!
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Post by: Aries on February 24, 2010, 10:02:02 pm
I love the Handles' grain!! looks like and awesome character bow
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Post by: KenH on February 25, 2010, 12:08:00 am
You keep working on bows like that... we'll work on your English with you!
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Post by: VenomBOWslinger on February 25, 2010, 01:17:41 am
Now that character...Good stuff!!!

Russ
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Post by: J05H on February 25, 2010, 06:32:04 am
That is a truly beautiful bow.
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Post by: DanaM on February 25, 2010, 07:37:54 am
Awesome bow man :)
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Post by: bowralph on February 26, 2010, 09:44:31 am
 some more pics  :)


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