Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: TimPotter on October 17, 2013, 06:07:48 am
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I promised myself I'd wait till I got this stave bending before sharing some pics, but it may take a few more hard earned days. I've worked with some tough hard to split wood before but this one here gets the black hat. I took my hatchet to the grinder twice thinking maybe my 1st time I'd not made it sharp enough, even though I knew that wasn't true. Then my knives started giving me the same feedback. So now I'm on to rasping out the general profile. Bit by bit.
Here is some pics of the original harvest about 6 months back. I'll have more pics latter today showing it's progression on the workbench. Then stave came with a nature-given set-back handle so I have all sorts of crazy ideas for what to make of it. It's 72" at the moment. Have a good morning all. :)
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Pic before 1st hatchet strike.
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One good thing about hackberry is it grows pole straight like that,and is always easy to find a victim....looking forward to some more installments ;)
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Sometimes its all a test of patience. That's an impressive fire pit by the way.
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Blackhawk this one is very knotty and not so straight as other pics will show. >:D
That was a fire pit at one time that my wife converted into a raku oven. Now I'm working on a new place for my fire pit. :laugh:
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Tim I have never found a hackberry that was tough like that, not even close. Ive cut from 1.5" up to 10" round. I have a feeling you have a special bow coming from that stick man!
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Fixin to be a good one can't wait :)
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I have a tough one just like that :) a bit smaller though.
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This will be fun to watch, looking forward to it.
Mark
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Yeah well this is getting more complicated by the minute. First this has darker wood than other hackberry bows I've made. That in itself will turn out great when and if I finish it. Next I found a nice worm hole running from the handle area to the fade. Once the contaminated areas were removed I was left with a much narrower lower limb than I wanted so we now have a elb with a setback handle in the works or a gull wing native American flat bow in the works. Now I'm also having difficulty uploading pics here. But I'll persist. >:D
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Then again maybe a Scythian type bow. ;D
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Ok. Hatchet work stage 1.
http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z372/thimosabv2/100_1109.jpg
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In the meantime while I discover why my pics of rasping won't upload here is a pic of two other hackberry bows I've done in the past.
http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z372/thimosabv2/DSC_0030.jpg
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I had planned a widelimbed design on this one like this pic of a former hackberry.
http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z372/thimosabv2/DSC_0039.jpg
But now with the narrow limb left after the worm damage I'm forced to see how narrow limbs work. I've done elm that way in the past and I'm pretty sure hackberry can take the strain so now it's just a matter of deciding belly shape. Crowned, lens, or flat?
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Thanks guys. Sorry this is not going as planned. I have lots of pics to share but I can't get them to upload here or even photobucket. >:(
When this glitch is figured out I'll continue.
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That sucks. Maybe photobucket is messed up?
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No It's my internet service keeps blinking out in the middle of uploads. I think. ::)
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No It's my internet service keeps blinking out in the middle of uploads. I think. ::)
Man I hate that. Our provider is the worst. (cincinnati bell) We pay like 40 bucks a month for a supposed "up to 5 mb" plan, and forever we never even got 1 mb, maybe like 700 something kb. And they have a plan for 700 kb too, which is less than we pay! It was almost unusable. I called them one day pissed off and it turns out they had us set to a lower speed, for no reason. So they reset it to get about 2 mb, which is fine. But then it will reset to below 1 mb randomly all the time anyway. And it goes out constantly. If it even sprinkles, or there is the littlest heat lightning, it will be out for days. The last time was about a week ago, our phone and internet was out for a week before the company would come to fix it. My wife uses the internet for her school, so she was uber pissed. And we are not out in the booneys, I live like a 5 minute walk from downtown hamilton (where I live) I wanted to get time warner, but she said she doesn't want the internet through the cable in case the cable goes out.
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No It's my internet service keeps blinking out in the middle of uploads. I think. ::)
Man I hate that. Our provider is the worst. (cincinnati bell) We pay like 40 bucks a month for a supposed "up to 5 mb" plan, and forever we never even got 1 mb, maybe like 700 something kb. And they have a plan for 700 kb too, which is less than we pay! It was almost unusable. I called them one day pissed off and it turns out they had us set to a lower speed, for no reason. So they reset it to get about 2 mb, which is fine. But then it will reset to below 1 mb randomly all the time anyway. And it goes out constantly. If it even sprinkles, or there is the littlest heat lightning, it will be out for days. The last time was about a week ago, our phone and internet was out for a week before the company would come to fix it. My wife uses the internet for her school, so she was uber pissed. And we are not out in the booneys, I live like a 5 minute walk from downtown hamilton (where I live) I wanted to get time warner, but she said she doesn't want the internet through the cable in case the cable goes out.
Don't mean to stir the pot but when you sign up for 5 mb per second you actually get it its just when you use your internet it shows 700 or something because b=bit and B=Bite a bit is 1/8th a bite so really you are getting what they advertise most of the time, in your case they are cheating you but the speed advertised just seems to be large but is really the same as what you seem to getting which seems lower, I had the same thing happen to me as well so its common to more than just you. no offence intended hope that clarifies something.
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No It's my internet service keeps blinking out in the middle of uploads. I think. ::)
Man I hate that. Our provider is the worst. (cincinnati bell) We pay like 40 bucks a month for a supposed "up to 5 mb" plan, and forever we never even got 1 mb, maybe like 700 something kb. And they have a plan for 700 kb too, which is less than we pay! It was almost unusable. I called them one day pissed off and it turns out they had us set to a lower speed, for no reason. So they reset it to get about 2 mb, which is fine. But then it will reset to below 1 mb randomly all the time anyway. And it goes out constantly. If it even sprinkles, or there is the littlest heat lightning, it will be out for days. The last time was about a week ago, our phone and internet was out for a week before the company would come to fix it. My wife uses the internet for her school, so she was uber pissed. And we are not out in the booneys, I live like a 5 minute walk from downtown hamilton (where I live) I wanted to get time warner, but she said she doesn't want the internet through the cable in case the cable goes out.
Don't mean to stir the pot but when you sign up for 5 mb per second you actually get it its just when you use your internet it shows 700 or something because b=bit and B=Bite a bit is 1/8th a bite so really you are getting what they advertise most of the time, in your case they are cheating you but the speed advertised just seems to be large but is really the same as what you seem to getting which seems lower, I had the same thing happen to me as well so its common to more than just you. no offence intended hope that clarifies something.
I know the difference, we are paying for up to 5 Mbps, as advertized at the cincinnati bell website (when spelled Mbps it is refering to megabits, only when spelled MBps, does it refers to megabites). What I said, is that sometimes we will only get 700 kilobits, 1 Mbps = 1024 Kbps. Sorry for going off topic, ;D.