Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: gstoneberg on April 02, 2011, 12:29:35 pm
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Woke up early this morning (can't sleep in even on Saturday ???). Mary asked if I was going to walk on the treadmill and I said I had a different plan. Went out to the shop and roughed out 2 osage bows. One I had already close to a growth ring
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5030/5581622535_54cf1e2b74_z.jpg)
the other one not so much.
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5011/5582208744_15da92576d_z.jpg)
90 minutes of aerobic draw knife work (with a little spindle sander rest time included ;) ) and they're ready for heat bending.
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5102/5582208852_c9d0c03236_z.jpg)
I love Saturday mornings. ;D
George
PS. Cipriano, that bottom one is yours.
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Good workout!!
That last pic looks like you are trying to breed some bow stock >:D
Bevan R
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Love those bent staves >:D
Katt
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that first one looks like the stave you sent me ;D
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;D ;D ;D
I have a thing for bent staves, that's for sure. :D
Yes, actually both of these staves came from the same tree as yours but the second one was from the other (smaller) trunk (it had 2).
George
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I hope you at least use straight arrows ;D
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Good stuff George, that'll get the blood pumping in the morning ;D
Darcy
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ya, always said, working a stave with a drawknife, builds the upper body, to shoot the finished bow! ;D
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George,you said you have a thing for crooked staves.Is it possible you have this"thing"because that's all you can find growing around your area.Crooked trees. I know that is my case. ;D. The best wood I ever find is crooked. That's east Texas osage for you. God Bless
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Sure Pete, the reason I started using crooked wood is because that's what there was. Then I began to enjoy doing it. Even so, I cut some bow wood into lengths for the fire pit the other day. I still have limits I'm not willing to go past. ;)
I do really like the exercise. Much better than the treadmill.
George
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Sure Pete, the reason I started using crooked wood is because that's what there was. Then I began to enjoy doing it. Even so, I cut some bow wood into lengths for the fire pit the other day. I still have limits I'm not willing to go past. ;)
I do really like the exercise. Much better than the treadmill.
George
if only i could convince my parents that ;D how bent is too much, the ones you showed had some pretty good bends in it so now im intrigued ;D
noel
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George that looks like a real dandy!!! I think I will name it, "Mijo." Looking forward to that hunt :D
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... And then I heated them up and shaped em to floor tiller stage. hahaha. You think that is a workout? Do that in July in MO.
Seriously, good work. its definitly a lobor of love.
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Noel, I've begun to reject anything requires a lot of limb sideways bending to put the string in the handle. I don't mind taking out deflex. adding reflex, taking out twist, or bending in the handle. But, I'm not very good at taking a limb sideways. Most of the wood I'm rejecting I'm getting a billet out of so it isn't a total loss. Some of the wood I cut with that in mind, but left long anyway, hoping to luck into some character.
Mijo, I like that. If you want the bow in its current state (or after I straighten it) I can send it. I'm looking forward to it too.
Yea, July in the shop in Texas is no picnic either. I work a little bit, jump in the pool, then repeat. Not as aerobic, but definitely a sweat-fest. This is a nice time of year to work. Thanks, it sure is.
George