Primitive Archer

Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Zuma on July 30, 2014, 10:28:24 pm

Title: Went Bowlin today
Post by: Zuma on July 30, 2014, 10:28:24 pm

The weather here has been fall like. Moderate temps and low humidity.
Just right for shade tree bowlin.
Zuma

Title: Re: Went Bowlin today
Post by: osage outlaw on July 30, 2014, 10:30:01 pm

Very cool

Title: Re: Went Bowlin today
Post by: TRACY on July 31, 2014, 12:08:38 am

Nice work!


Tracy

Title: Re: Went Bowlin today
Post by: chamookman on July 31, 2014, 05:26:20 am

WOW - very nice ! Bob

Title: Re: Went Bowlin today
Post by: Blackcoyote on July 31, 2014, 09:15:57 am

damn those are sweet, nice work!

Title: Re: Went Bowlin today
Post by: Bone pile on July 31, 2014, 09:49:34 am

OK it's spalted what? Did you turn it? I see a brush and a beer ,are you putting a beer finish on the wood? ::) ::) ::) questions questions. other than that they look very cool.
Bone

Title: Re: Went Bowlin today
Post by: RidgeRunner on July 31, 2014, 09:52:53 am

Tools, Tools...  What tools did you use?????

Thanks
David

Title: Re: Went Bowlin today
Post by: YosemiteBen on July 31, 2014, 12:20:33 pm

very nice work....

Title: Re: Went Bowlin today
Post by: Ozzy on July 31, 2014, 02:03:22 pm

Very Sweet!!!!!!!

Title: Re: Went Bowlin today
Post by: Zuma on July 31, 2014, 02:42:54 pm

Great members here. Thanks

Spalted Sycamore, preformed last year. I keep them dry and cool in the basement.
Chisels, gouge , then a grinder with 2hrs of hand sanding.
I would rather drink the polyurathane than brush a beer on a hunk of wood
Roger. lol >:D
Zuma

Title: Re: Went Bowlin today
Post by: RidgeRunner on August 01, 2014, 09:09:14 am

Got to get me a big Gouge or two.... and a Bowl Adze.
May have to make the Adze.

Thanks
Very nice carvings.

David

Title: Re: Went Bowlin today
Post by: Zuma on August 02, 2014, 03:44:10 pm

Gouges are sweet when it comes to curved  surfaces.
Here is what the chainsaw can do instead of a adze.
My chain saw is a 1968 model and qualifies as primitive. lol
Also I made a spalted maple bowl. My first.

Title: Re: Went Bowlin today
Post by: longbow man on August 09, 2014, 09:22:06 pm

    Unbelievable. Gotta sharpen my tools and try to catch up. Do you do anything special to keep it from checking? Chants, bowl dance or mystic stuff?

Title: Re: Went Bowlin today
Post by: Zuma on August 10, 2014, 11:58:16 pm

longbowman,
I try not to start with a green log.
Something that has been dead or down for a while.
If there are no major checks then I start the saw.
Sawing out the core and preforming the outer walls so
the work is reasonable thin.
This gives the bowl somewhere to shrink to.
Then I put it in a cool dark place for a year where I dance around it
with a small dehumidifier uttering chants and shaking bones and feathers.
Sometimes it works.
Zuma