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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Stretch on May 20, 2011, 12:50:13 am
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Hey All,
I just figured I'd check in and introduce myself. My name's Mark, but I'm just as comfortable going by Stretch. I've been a custom furniture builder and wood carver by trade for the past five years, but I've always been interested in building my own bows. I've got a fully equipped wood shop so tools aren't a problem, but I've been poking around the forum here and have come realize I know basically nothing about building a bow. So I plan on poking around more to gain knowledge and asking a question here and there as things start to make sense to me. In the mean time, if anyone has any good sites, build threads or books you suggest I look let me know. It seems like a really friendly place around here and I look forward to participating.
Mark
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Welcome Mark, I'm new here myself. These guys will get you started building your own bows, be careful though because it's addictive! ::)
I started a year ago with the intention of just building myself a longbow. Now a couple tons of Osage and now Hackberry later I'm still building them, I just can't stop myself. :-\
Hi I'm Chris and I'm a bow woodaholic. ;)
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Welcome Stretch. If you like wood and great folks, you will like PA. 8) Now, it is time to climb out of the wood box you've become accustome to and build some bows. 8) 8) 8)
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Welcome to PA mark glad to see another Texan on here where in east Texas do you live I'm in Victoria
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Welcome Stretch, any questions never hesitate to ask,someone here usually has an answer and don't mind giving it. That is what is so great about this place. No secrets :) :)
Enjoy the ride. :)
Pappy
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Welcome Stretch, make yourself at home. look at the build-along section and go back through all the old post that spark an interest, you will learn alot from them. And like Pappy said, ask questions. :)
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So I plan on poking around more to gain knowledge and asking a question here and there as things start to make sense to me. In the mean time, if anyone has any good sites, build threads or books you suggest I look let me know. It seems like a really friendly place around here and I look forward to participating.
Mark
Welcome Stretch! If you aren't too far from Dallas, come on over. I work on bows in my shop most nights and love company. Be happy to help you get started and would provide you a crooked old osage stave to play with.
George
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So I plan on poking around more to gain knowledge and asking a question here and there as things start to make sense to me. In the mean time, if anyone has any good sites, build threads or books you suggest I look let me know. It seems like a really friendly place around here and I look forward to participating.
Mark
Welcome Stretch! If you aren't too far from Dallas, come on over. I work on bows in my shop most nights and love company. Be happy to help you get started and would provide you a crooked old osage stave to play with.
George
Thanks George. I'm in Lindale, about 1.5 hrs east of Dallas. I'll definitely take you up on your offer when I get a chance.
Thanks for the welcome all! I'm glad I found this place.
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Bien venido Stretch. You probably have bow wood living in east Texas, but if you need something to get started on let me know.
Cipriano
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Stretch,
Jawge on here has a nice set of web instructions on bow building, http://georgeandjoni.home.comcast.net/~georgeandjoni/
You should have good bow wood close. I have cut osage up by Sulpher Springs and there's hickory and pecan all over east Texas. You should also have good hogs to chase once you get your bow done.
George
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welcome texan! get to building bows, but watch out, its addictive! youll be looking at every tree wondering what bow is hiding in there!
i myself live in greenville. george is a nice guy too! always trying to make people build bows, i mean really, who here wants to do that!! lol i still need to take him up on that offer
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Don't even get started on hogs! I've been wanting to stick a pig with my bow ever since I started bowhunting, but we don't have many here in Missouri. My little brother lives in Dallas and we go down about once a year for a visit, so any of you fellas that live close and have property loaded with hogs just let me know and next time I go down to Dallas for a visit I'll bring bow wood with me to hand over to the "Guide" for the oppurtunity to poke a piggy. 8)
Don't mean to bust the post Stretch, but your in this too. Same offer goes for you if you have some hogs to share, I've got tons of osage, hackberry, locust, hickory, you name it..........I got it. Still haven't dropped any hickory but it's coming soon!
I can even offer tips on working a stave if you want. I ain't no expert, but I can build a fairly nice bent stick. The BBO I just finished with snake skins reaches Bear Grizzly Recurve velocities with the same 490gr. arra............not bad for a bow build in my garage on a home made caul. ;)
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Don't even get started on hogs! I've been wanting to stick a pig with my bow ever since I started bowhunting, but we don't have many here in Missouri. My little brother lives in Dallas and we go down about once a year for a visit, so any of you fellas that live close and have property loaded with hogs just let me know and next time I go down to Dallas for a visit I'll bring bow wood with me to hand over to the "Guide" for the oppurtunity to poke a piggy. 8)
Don't mean to bust the post Stretch, but your in this too. Same offer goes for you if you have some hogs to share, I've got tons of osage, hackberry, locust, hickory, you name it..........I got it. Still haven't dropped any hickory but it's coming soon!
I can even offer tips on working a stave if you want. I ain't no expert, but I can build a fairly nice bent stick. The BBO I just finished with snake skins reaches Bear Grizzly Recurve velocities with the same 490gr. arra............not bad for a bow build in my garage on a home made caul. ;)
I got a place to hunt hogs. They haven't been hitting the feeder lately, but they'll be back once the acorns start falling. I gotta get one with my rifle before I step into bow hunting them though. I do have a line on a place to hunt that is bowhunting only. I've yet to scout it out, but it's east Texas forest that's not being hunted so it should be promising. As for staves, I should be set. I've got plenty of woodworking contacts and places to cut, so that shouldn't be a problem. Heck, I've got a whole stack of 2" slabs E. Red Cedar that's been air drying for three years, I ought to be able to find some staves out of it. Heck I can always dive into my pile of scraps and find something to make a board bow outta. Oh, and I have a vacuum bag for doing bent laminations so I have planty to play with in the mean time.
Oh, one more thing... BBO??? I've yet to pick up all the lingo so help a brother out. ;D
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Stretch,
Jawge on here has a nice set of web instructions on bow building, http://georgeandjoni.home.comcast.net/~georgeandjoni/
You should have good bow wood close. I have cut osage up by Sulpher Springs and there's hickory and pecan all over east Texas. You should also have good hogs to chase once you get your bow done.
George
Thanks George, I've actually been looking Jawge's site over a bit. I"m thinking of starting a board bow from his instructions pretty soon, once I get the giant entertainment center I'm building out of my shop so I have some space. I should have no problem finding osage where I'm at, I've got a buddy who's a woodturner who's turns it all the time, so I've got a hook up there.
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BBO = Bamboo Backed Osage.
You guys are invited to this: http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,25825.0.html Be a long drive from Missouri. It's a healthy drive from the Tyler area as well. Anyway, any time you come to Dallas SH, let me know. I try to get to the lease at least once a month. Like Stretch, I often rifle hunt, but there are bow setups there. Be a touch hot out there in a month or so though.
I went and looked at a clump of osage this afternoon. The owner wants to park his RV where it is. It is smaller than I prefer, but it has several nice straight trunk sections. I'll be cutting yellow wood later this week. ;D
George
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Thanks for the wonderful invite George, that's mighty nice of ya.
With gas prices going sky high I think summer vacation plans have been put on hold for now, I'll probably just stick close to the river here by the house. I don't even know if I'll make it to MOJAM this year or not? I hope so, but probably won't know until the week before if it's a possibility or not.
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How much you paying for petrol (gas)? Ours is about €1.53 a litre - about $2.16. I think the American gallon is four litres so that's $8.65 an American gallon... :-\
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Hatch, that sucks! ;DWho gets the North Sea oil?
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Hatch, that sucks! ;DWho gets the North Sea oil?
Ah a good few years ago, the "powers that be" saw fit to sign away any rights to the MASSIVE gas fields that are just off the Irish coast to the west. I don't know off hand who got them but I know there's uproar at the moment due to piping plans and stuff like that. Sorry for not researching before answering - my back's giving me Hell to the point I can't string two sentences together without it taking ten minutes and a LOT of spelling corrections :'( I'm off to bed for the rest of the day now at 17:25.
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Welcome Stretch, I live 4 miles from Whitehouse,and I hunt hogs whenever the season is open out at the Old Sabine Bottom WMA out of Lindale. I've been building these things a little over 12 years,and this equipment is just about all I hunt with anymore. If you need any help bow making,or would like to hunt pigs with us sometimes,give me a holler. God Bless
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I wondered if you weren't pretty close to him Pete. Hey, did you get any Tilapia with your bow this spring?
George
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We've been once, as it's been way too windy,with averages from 15-30 MPH.We,my wife and I, got 7,but that's not much of a trip. The wind is going to have to lay down quite a bit before I'm going back.(With the ripples,or in some cases ,waves,you just cant see them).I have not forgotten you though.As soon as it gets down to less than 5-10 MPH,we'll give it a try. God Bless
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I'm glad you got a few. I wasn't hinting at all, just curious. It just hit me that I hadn't seen any success pictures. I wonder if either Lavon or Ray Hubbard has tilapia? Where I cut the osage I just posted about was very close to Ray Hubbard. Anyway, I hope you and Stretch are able to get together,
George
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Are Ray Hubbard and Lavon power plant lakes? If they are,they might have them. God Bless
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Anyway, I hope you and Stretch are able to get together,
We could have an E. Texas get together at my place. I've got the shop space to handle a group, if I clean up that is. :P ;D
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Great idea Stretch, I would come if the date worked.
Nope, both Lavon and Ray Hubbard are city water supply reservoirs with no power plant facilities. Both are locally known as crappie lakes, but sadly I've never fished either one...yet.
George
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Great idea Stretch, I would come if the date worked.
Then we'll make the date work so you can. :) I'll have to look at my calendar and we'll toss around some potential dates.
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Amen!!! Literal translation is "I am in."
I think..
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Welcome to the family, Stretch.
I've always been into strange and odd hobbies. Most of them are made up of people that wouldn't show you the basics much less hard earned knowledge and expertise, but this primitive archery community is something else. Everyone seems to be willing to share what they know, as well as sharing their tools and their wood stash!!! The unspoken rule is that you just keep passing it along.
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Welcome to the family, Stretch.
I've always been into strange and odd hobbies. Most of them are made up of people that wouldn't show you the basics much less hard earned knowledge and expertise, but this primitive archery community is something else. Everyone seems to be willing to share what they know, as well as sharing their tools and their wood stash!!! The unspoken rule is that you just keep passing it along.
Ya know, most woodworkers I've met are like that. They like passing on their knowledge. It doesn't surprise me that highly specialized woodworkers (bowyers) are the same way.