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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: sharpend60 on October 16, 2012, 07:26:35 pm

Title: Build time
Post by: sharpend60 on October 16, 2012, 07:26:35 pm: How much time do you guys spend each day/week/month or year building?

Building includes splitting staves, scraping bark and applying that 19th coat of tru oil.
I'm not talking about completing bows but bowyery related activities. I'm sure we all have bows in various stages of completion.

I myself spend about an hour or two each day doing something that pertains to a self bow.
Some weeks more and some weeks less, like this week.

How bout you?
Title: Re: Build time
Post by: sleek on October 16, 2012, 07:30:49 pm: I will spend sometimes 8 hours or more, and thats after work... Some days, I dont go to bed until 5 am. Cant sleep until I get to that next step, or that problem I am working on is solved....
Title: Re: Build time
Post by: sharpend60 on October 16, 2012, 07:38:43 pm: Good god man!

I find that my work quality suffers if I spend that much time focused on one thing.

Part of my work (income related) involves extremely physical 20 hour days. I get to be a mean SOB then.

If I was building for that long I might come out with a battle axe, not a bow.
Title: Re: Build time
Post by: blackhawk on October 16, 2012, 07:44:26 pm: No clue...but I know whatever it is,it is too much....can't stop this crazy long train ride
Title: Re: Build time
Post by: bubby on October 16, 2012, 07:55:36 pm: don't have a clue, sometimes all day before i go to work, sometimes none, i break it up flintknapping of building knives or doing leather work or, crap i got too many hobby's, Bub
Title: Re: Build time
Post by: seabass on October 16, 2012, 07:58:51 pm: i am with Bub.i have too many hobbies.i am in my man cave almost everyday after work until it is time to go to bed.
Title: Re: Build time
Post by: George Tsoukalas on October 16, 2012, 08:45:07 pm: I don't make bows until winter time. I don't make as many as I used to make. We'll see. Jawge
Title: Re: Build time
Post by: NruJaC on October 16, 2012, 09:02:27 pm: I'm like sleek -- come home from work and pick a bow to work on. I'm sitting on my butt all day in front of a computer, so I figure it's good for me. :laugh:
Title: Re: Build time
Post by: Tortoise on October 16, 2012, 09:13:35 pm: I barely work in the summer, way too hot where I live. In the winder that's when I'm most productive.
Title: Re: Build time
Post by: Badly Bent on October 16, 2012, 09:32:06 pm: Most weekdays I get to my shop early so I can put an hour into a bow before heading out to a jobsite and when back at end of day I can't head home without putting in at least 15-20 minutes more on a bow. Some weekend bow work in the backyard when weathers nice but not much. Oh and any time when real work is slow and I'm not hunting or committed to family time.
Title: Re: Build time
Post by: sleek on October 16, 2012, 09:37:36 pm: I am turning family time into bow time. My wife can now tie fletchings and chase rings on osage. My 6 year old is learning to chase a ring, and tiller, and has one bow under his belt already...