Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: half eye on April 05, 2011, 09:07:45 pm
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Hey Fellas,
Got down to some serious building here while it still snowing. Built three bows and three cased sets. One of the Ojibwe is a western pattern, one is an eastern/ riverine pattern, and the black bear set is Odawa styled. I made two bows for the eastern cased set a 45" elm self bow in the Shawnee pattern (49# @ 23"), and an eastern Ojibwe single side scalloped bow of 52" (61# @ 27") it's hickory backed elm and the little Odawa (Ottawa) bow is a self ash bow 45" ntn (51# @ 23") will get the bow pics posted tomorrow if the snow lets off some......
The western Ojibwe cased set is buckskin, with pony beads. has the bow case and quiver seperate, and has a "kit" bag. the coyote head forms a rain flap for the arrows but also has an opening at the bottom edge so you can case longer arrows, (like in the pic. the fringe is cut from the original piece and are not sewed on.
The Eastern Ojibwe, is sewed up "hair-in", and has beaver fur cuffs. again all three pieces are seperate. The tassells are strips of beaver fur and are whipped and tied on with buckskin. The bow case, quiver and bag are all "hair-in".
The Odawa set is made from a black bear, obviously hair out. The bears head forms a rain cover for the normal arrows, but will accommodate longer ones at the bottom of the head. This set is also 3 piece. the robins-egg blue straps were dyed up because the color was common to the Ojibwe and Odawa, the beads are pony beads. There is a bearskin holder at the bottom of one bandolier strap as you can see. This bear skin and hatchett came from wildman and I think they all look real good and wanted to share the pics
Hope ya like 'em and I'll post the braced, unbraced and full draw pics tomorrow.
rich
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we need to see these un sheathed and drawn my good man.
outstanding covers for these works of art!
great work pre usual.
jamie
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very nice.you have been busy.i think i just drooled on my keyboard.i want one real bad,steve
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WOW!!, man Rich you are scary talented, outstanding, Bub
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:o
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I just knew you had to be up to your neck in sawdust...you had been too quiet for too many days ;D
Stunning work Half-eye and I can't even see the bows very well. Your attention to detail and the level of planning/execution is amazing. Truly envious of your skills.
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WOW ;D
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outstanding work on all of them! I really really like the coyote one though. good to see you haven't been idle. ;D
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Thanks for the compliments, fellas. If the snow aint flying again tomorrow I'll get the full draw pics.
rich
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Wow Those are amazing can't wait to see more-the tribes you mentioned are they all great lakes area tribes?-Hammertime
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Very nice half eye. I really like the way "hand craft" those ;D Gives me another idea how to use the Bobcat ;)
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you're on another level dude.... nice work.
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Well done, half eye. That's some nice work there! Jawge
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wow, those are awesome! what do you plan to do with those?? >:D ;)
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Man you guy's are about too much,eh? I do like them but I'm sure there is still a lot of "improvement room".
Hammertime, you are correct. Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomii, Cree, Shawnee, Saulk, Fox, Ho-Chunk, etc. all from the Great Lakes region of the Eastern Woodland Natives. The Ojibwe in particular were very widespread from the subarctic to the Ohio valley area and from the East to western Dakotas and Saskatchewan....I've found pics of 3 distinct styles of bows, and 2 different case sets attributed to them.
Thanks again, Arrowwind and all of ya.
got a few ideas in mind, Aero
rich
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Those are some great looking quivers. Good work as usual Rich. :)
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Rich, I love your work! PERIOD!!! 8)
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im realllllllyyyyy liking that eastern set.. very nice!
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those are really nice , you should do a build along for a complete set case and all :)
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VERY NICE!
Some detailed photos of both bows and cases would be great!
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those are really nice , you should do a build along for a complete set case and all :)
;D that would be cool! :D
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SWEETTTTTTT
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I can't wait to see those bows naked and bent! ;D
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Good gosh those are awesome, Rich!
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My, uh, cat would feel a lot better if you gave him one of those quivers.... ;D
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WOW.THOSE ARE AMAZING..glad to see anther indian stick guy...i love the quivers and the sticks...BOY,you must have alot of snow up.lol..great work..john
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Great work.
Del
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Very nice!
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Hey fellas here are the closeup pics of the western case and the bow pics....probably take a few posts......the last two here are so ya can get a size comparison between the bows.
rich
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here is the Ojibwe bow and pics of the 3 bows tips.
rich
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here is the Shawnee plus a shot of the 3 bows grip areas.
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Here is the Odawa (Ottawa).....the arrow in the photos of the shawnee and the ottawa has 24" of useable shaft and the arrow in the Ojibwe bow has 28" of useable shaft FYI
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Guess I should have looked at the draw pics better before I posted, eh? I'm proud to report that I have fixed that nasty stiff upper limb on the Shawnee bow ::) at least it's round now.....
rich
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They all look great rich I didnt even catch that but I guess I wasnt looking for any imperfections ;D Nicely done once again
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Beautiful work. You are a Craftsman and an Artist. Thanks for the showing ! ' Frank
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Those are some seriously awesome sets. Looks like they belong in a museum. Thanks for sharing with us.
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Thank you guys....next project is to make a set of matched arrows for @ cased set, if I can find all my arrow stuff :D thinks it somewhere underneath all the bow sawdust ::)
rich
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Incredibly beautiful work as always ... Your bows are truly inspiring... I love the tips on the darker bow that kinda look like oak leaves, I have to try something like that sometime.
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Outstanding work, me want to see bows. Markus.
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These are the kind of works that got me to buy my first copy of PA years ago , and are what I expect to see today from a magazine or forum with the word PRIMITIVE in the title.Outstanding work , you are a living museum for the Great Lakes bows. My hats off to you sir,
Jeff
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Fantastic work Rich!!! Not much else to say...simply fantastic.
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Thanks again to all of you for the very kind comments.....but special to wildman for the fur and tomahawk, and tattoo dave for his very fine leather that was used for two of the bandoliers, you two made it a whole easier, thanks
rich
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Ha, I was waiting for you to bring those guys out of their case, beautiful bows. Beautiful work.
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These are the kind of works that got me to buy my first copy of PA years ago , and are what I expect to see today from a magazine or forum with the word PRIMITIVE in the title.Outstanding work , you are a living museum for the Great Lakes bows. My hats off to you sir,
Jeff
Truely insperational
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Argree with n2huntn,very cool sets,looks awesome on the wall or sneakin through woods-Hammertime
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very nice work. are you planning on selling them?
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this board has some of the most amazing craftsmen
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Very nice, those quivers look exellent, very authentic, like your work as always
Dave
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you do awesome work rich
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We need a "we're not worthy" smilie ;D Beautiful stuff Half eye.
Darcy :)
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Thanks so much for the reception to these projects.....
DEllis@ don't think so, sir. There are a lot of super bowyers here that make bows I wouldn't even attempt...there are a few I can make but that's about it.
Ken@ your one of the guys who can do that ....I envy your talent, sir
Juniper@ want to stay on the site, so I'm not going to go there
ryoon, Ifrit, Markus, N2, tattoo, hammertime, dragonman....everybody, thank you
rich
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Rich all i do is bend sticks and take pictures of the ones that dont break .... you build works of art !!! now stop argueing with me or ill bring up your latest past time !! >:D
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So I aint the only one that knows your other past time >:D
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Quit right there......I just now got my man-card back ::)
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now i want to know what your other pastime is.maybe i can bribe those other guys into talking LOL
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OMG!!! Talk about some beautiful bows and the set I'm speechless! These are the type of bow I so badly want to learn to make. Please take the time one day to do a buildalong! FANTASTIC!!!!
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Amazing work as always Rich, You are a machine.
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those bows leave me speechless...
simply amazing!
any possibility of getting close-ups of the arrows?
thanks