Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: VenomBOWslinger on April 07, 2010, 05:47:48 pm
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Good day ladies and gents. As some of you might know I am a busy bee with working too many jobs and hours I build bows just to have them sit around and unfinished! Well today my son got sick in school so I had to bring him home. Instead of getting sleep from my 18 hour shift I just worked I decided to spruce up one of my maple flat bows! To give you a hint it's not real snake skin but something I stole from my wife ;) :-X >:D maybe she wont recognize it! Anyway thanks for taking the time to look when it is dried and I flemish up a nice new string I will get a braced and full draw pic up. I cant wait to get a spring bird with it and I am making some nice arrows to go right along with it all with some nice knapped heads of mine from my Onondaga chert I quarried! The only thing that wil bother me is I have a store bought quiver I havent got around to making one. The bow is hard maple with cherry handle 60'' 65lbs@28'' it is rawhide backed again using dogbones from the pet shop! Any who wont bore you fellas hope u like my shabby work!
Cheers,
Russ
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Wow tuff crowd not many responses oh well guess its not worthy... :'( lol
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Russ the bow looks good but without a braced and full draw pic ya can't expect many responses eh.
Just the way it works, hope yer son feels better :)
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Venom,
I like it a lot, a very nice hunting bow in keeping with what I think of as primitive archery. I build board bows, they aint cooked, flipped, supeglued or ring chased staves. Aint never glued a snake skin, limb tips or anything else on, so I guess I aint no bowyer either. For what ever it's worth the old man likes your bow, and I hope ya keep on makin them and makin meat.
Rich
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I like it a lot.
I have a hard maple stave roughed out awaiting floor tillering. Right now the limbs are about 2.5 inches wide for a little over half the length of the limbs.
I'm only looking for 55-60 at 26" draw...how wide are your limbs at the fades?
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She looks like a good one. Well done! Jawge
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Looks good to me. Look forward to he full draw pic.
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looks great to me i like it cant wait to see some full draw pics.
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Hey thanx and if ye read the post I was just happy to get the time to almost finish it was still wet I will brace and post pics up ASAP!
Its hard maple 60" 1"5/8" at fades to 5/8" at tips its flat with little to no set. Its 5/8" thick tapering down to 11/16'' at the tips. I used gunstock stain and used a fine grade varnish meant for musical instruments. I enjoyed the touch ups and have been inspired to do some finish work from my friend half eye...thanx Rich for the tips on finishing Im on the Iroquios bow now! I have issues finishing bows for some reason otherwise I can post up about 50 bows that have nothing on them except a string! I love wood working and primitive anything be patient with me guys Im not new to being a bowyer Im new to getting them finished! Thanx for all the kind words!
Cheers,
Russ
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full draw please!
i'm dying to hear about what article of clothing you harvested the skin from. i been eyeballing my wife's leopard skin robe lately (some kinda sheer material, it's gonna look GREAT on the back of a red oak longbow i'm makin).
beautiful work, by the way.
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Whatever it was you stole from the wife, it looks cool. But I'm bettin she notices it!
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cool bow Russ, can't wait to see the full draw and braced pic! :)
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Very good looking bow Russ, Can't wait to see it bending ;)
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HOLY $#!T hi Shannon! Josh howdy to u too! I told my my comrade KEN75 that the snakeskin came from my oldladies panties!!! Makes u wonder how wide the panties are??? ;D ;D :o lol joking aside they are synthetic boa pants that look like something a hooker might wear. My wife is a hotty and are not big at all! She didnt ever use them but once in the bedroom ;) long story short I wanted a snakeskin and had none so I snatched them from her dresser and hacked them up! They were pants but now DAISEY DUKES ..shorts. I folded them up and gently placed them back in her dresser! She spotted them right away and laughed it was a funny moment we had. I tend to be a bit animated maybe too much for some of you guys I apologize!!! I do nothing but work and dont get out much.. OK I will get u a full draw and a braced pic ASAP! Good night boys!
Russ
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LOL guys I hope I didnt start a downward spiral trend in getting guys to steal there wifes clothing to use on your bows!!! :D :D The one guy said something about eye balling his wifes leopard robe. Thats funny! So whos next???
Venom
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Looks good so far...but we need full draw, braced and unbraced profiles... 8) 8) 8)
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Ya I like it so far also,love to see it when it is finished. :)
Pappy
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Sorry I didnt get one on tiller I'm sure some of you will be devestated its good enough for me Im not worried about Bow of month I make them to either fill the freezer or because someone wants one! Have a good day guys and thanks again! I'm going to sleep now been up for 2 days! ZZZZzzzz!
Russ
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Very nice!
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That's a nice looking bow.
I thought you were going to put up a pic of your wife wearing the cut off snakeskin short shorts? Did I misread something?
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Tiller looks good to me, great job Russ. I like how you thought outside the box on backings, mine woulda killed me even IF she never planned on wearing those pants again. Seriously... ;) :)