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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Bitterguy on April 07, 2013, 01:29:39 pm

Title: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: Bitterguy on April 07, 2013, 01:29:39 pm: As some of you know I was having Pearl and some of the other nice folks here on PA show me how to make a bow through this thread(http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,37695.msg499029.html#msg499029 (http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,37695.msg499029.html#msg499029)). well I finally got the finish on the bow all said and done. It may not be the prettiest but it shoots so here it is:
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f146/bigbratguy/IMAG0403.jpg)
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f146/bigbratguy/IMAG0396.jpg)
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f146/bigbratguy/IMAG0397.jpg)
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f146/bigbratguy/IMAG0407.jpg)
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f146/bigbratguy/IMAG0406.jpg)
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f146/bigbratguy/IMAG0405.jpg)
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: Del the cat on April 07, 2013, 01:31:36 pm: Good to get that first one under your belt.
Looks pretty good to me, a tad bendy in the middle, but if that's the short bow style you were after that's fine.
There's no looking back now!
Del
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: Pat B on April 07, 2013, 01:39:59 pm: What Del said! 8)
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: Roy on April 07, 2013, 01:42:39 pm: Looks nice, congrats.
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on April 07, 2013, 01:51:50 pm: Got the next one started yet? What are you waiting for? Im glad you seen it through to the end and didnt give up. Good job
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: Bitterguy on April 07, 2013, 01:56:54 pm: Quote from: PEARL DRUMS on April 07, 2013, 01:51:50 pm
Got the next one started yet? What are you waiting for? Im glad you seen it through to the end and didnt give up. Good job
I really want to build a penobscot bow but all the info I can find doesn't Gove any dimensions and seems really vague
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: burn em up chuck on April 07, 2013, 02:04:39 pm: nicely bent for a first bow, like pearl said when can we see the next ;D
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: Zion on April 07, 2013, 02:12:46 pm: Idk if Penobscot bows are very hard to make but regardless i would make a couple more normal bows. Congratz on making your first bow, it looks great, but Pearly here did pretty much walk u through the whole thing. Now based on the knowledge taught to you, try to make a few more bows by yourself. Idk about you but i personally learn best by doing things myself, and you need to experiment and find out what works best for you. That's how each bowyer develops his own style.
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: Knapper on April 07, 2013, 02:32:19 pm: Way to go!!! Keep up the good work, they just get betterer and betterer :laugh:
Knapper
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: Jmilbrandt on April 07, 2013, 02:43:43 pm: Glad to see it worked out. Good job! Now let's see number 2!
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: Gordon on April 07, 2013, 02:58:14 pm: That looks pretty darn good. Congratulations!
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: lesken2011 on April 07, 2013, 03:16:59 pm: Nice circular bend on that one!! ;)
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: bow101 on April 07, 2013, 10:56:59 pm: Good stufff looks like a great shooter
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: Pappy on April 08, 2013, 08:04:25 am: Congrats on your first,nothing like that,bend looks pretty good to me. :)
Pappy
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: simson on April 08, 2013, 09:16:29 am: What Pappy said!

And I'm with Zion: don't try to make a Penobscot as second bow. You should get a lot more experience to make such a difficult design. I have seen Penobscot made by Mark St. Louis, perhaps you can get dimensions from him.

Again congrats on the first success!
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: H Rhodes on April 08, 2013, 09:49:35 am: Congratulations! Way to stay with it. There really is nothing quite like the first time you shoot a bow you built with your own two hands. Now enjoy shooting that one while you plan the next one. There will always be more....
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: Josh B on April 08, 2013, 09:56:21 am: Congrats on your first one! There ain't no stopping you now! Josh
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: Bitterguy on April 08, 2013, 10:03:01 am: Thanks for all the praise. It was a blast to make and it flings arrows, now all I have to do is work on my archery skills so i fling arrows at the target and not my dads cinder block garage wall ::) I'm all ready dimensioning in my 2nd bow.
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: George Tsoukalas on April 08, 2013, 10:04:13 am: The bend looks good to me. Congratulations! Jawge
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: Olanigw (Pekane) on April 09, 2013, 09:37:28 am: "Can't get started making a bow..."?

I think you've put that to rest.

Keep rocking it!
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: twisted hickory on April 09, 2013, 12:30:58 pm: Quote from: Bitterguy on April 08, 2013, 10:03:01 am
Thanks for all the praise. It was a blast to make and it flings arrows, now all I have to do is work on my archery skills so i fling arrows at the target and not my dads cinder block garage wall ::) I'm all ready dimensioning in my 2nd bow.
Welcome to the addiction. In the next 3 weeks I will be finishing up on bow #5 and #6. It is great to see something that you made fling arrows ;)
Title: Re: My first successful bow "The Radio Patient"
Post by: Sidewinder on April 09, 2013, 12:51:28 pm: congrats on your first one. The tiller looks good from hear. Danny