Primitive Archer

Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: wildman on June 13, 2011, 01:27:55 am

Title: Slim chance
Post by: wildman on June 13, 2011, 01:27:55 am

Shot these fellas with a recurve not primitive, but tough shots. They look good backing some osage.

Title: Re: Slim chance
Post by: FlintWalker on June 13, 2011, 02:17:13 am

I've got a little bow I'm dieing to back with a set of those. I have 5 or 6 of them and not one matching set!  They come in so many different variations it's hard to match up any. I keep thinking I'll come across one soon though. I like 'em better than copperheads.

Title: Re: Slim chance
Post by: criveraville on June 13, 2011, 03:05:37 am

I agree about the water snakes... Very many variations... Keith looks like you got an Eastern Diamonback water snake there. Nice snakes.

Title: Re: Slim chance
Post by: Pappy on June 13, 2011, 09:19:39 am

Nice haul. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: Slim chance
Post by: Eric Krewson on June 13, 2011, 11:46:03 am

If your skins don't match, you can touch up the patterns with a little leather dye and a very small brush. I dilute the dye with alcohol and put on several thin coats until they match.

Here is an example, mis matched color in two copperhead skins, spliced and touched up with leather dye. There are actually three skins on this bow, all matched with a little wash of leather dye on the hour glass patterns. Takes a little practice to learn the technique but lets you use some pretty mismatched skins.

The pattern on the left side was dark, the right pattern had almost no color after I removed the scales, medium brown leather dye evened them up.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/ekrewson/bow%20making/skinsplice.jpg)   

Title: Re: Slim chance
Post by: HoBow on June 13, 2011, 11:48:55 am

That's a nice job splicing those skins up Eric!

Title: Re: Slim chance
Post by: Kolton on July 05, 2011, 04:24:38 pm

Great Job




    Kolton

Title: Re: Slim chance
Post by: tyler holley on July 07, 2011, 04:21:04 pm

  Awsome great job




   



     Tyler

Title: Re: Slim chance
Post by: crooketarrow on July 08, 2011, 01:12:57 pm

  Heres what I did, after buting them on the bow you can ad some light stain on the light skin. You have to match the stain up with the darker stain. Only had to do 1 and it came out really close.