Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: 21st century archer on September 12, 2014, 03:28:38 pm
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Hi everyone. I have been building wood bows ever since I was 9. My first bow and arrow was a simple bent stick of invasive brazillian pepper and a wooden dowel fletched with feathers I had found in the woods. A few years later I was making bows from saplings and thin boards of oak and pine. For my 14th birthday I bought the first 2 volumes of the traditional bowyers bible and I was most interested in the eastern woodland bows because they were simple and they were used historically around where I lived. Currently I build mostly native american bows out of woods available here in central Florida. Here are some self bows I built from southern red cedar last year. I am planning on sanding and sealing both and making a rawhide string for both of them. They are special because they are the first bows I built that pull over 35 pounds. One is a 47 inch eastern woodlands style D bow that pulls 37 pounds at 22 inches and the other one is a 42 inch northern plains bow that pulls 40 pounds at 20 inches. The tiller is not the best looking because of all the knots, kinks, and wiggles but both bows have under 2 inches of set and shoot great.
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eastern woodlands bow
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plains bow
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Very nice! That heart wood is so pretty...
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Nice work.
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Welcome to PA
and from the looks of those bows you may be able to teach some of us a thing or two !
Have fun
Guy
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Welcome to PA! Nice work!
What part of Florida are you from?
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Welcome to the site, cool bows you you made there. :)
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Goo job and welcome aboard.
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Welcome to PA indeed. Looks like you're well on your way building native American bows. Keep at it.
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welcome to PA ..nice job on your bows ...you will fit in here nicely.
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Welcome to the site, very nice bows.....looking forward to more of your posts, looks like you have some good experience.
DBar
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Thanks for the comments guys. Currently I am working on a red cedar elb and I am also experimenting with unknown woods in my area. So far I have had excellent results with bald cypress, carrot wood, and live oak. Lebhuntfish, Im from around lake tarpon in pinellas co.
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Pure primative, I love it. Tillers look good.
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Thats cool 21st century archer, I have family in Ovedio just outside of Orlando.
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Nice looking bows. Also welcome to PA
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well done, and welcome
chuck
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Welcome to PA, always good to see more Florida guys on here. Those are some good looking bows and cypress and ERC is some good bow wood. I'll take it over hickory anyday.
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Gotta love the simplicity, great looking bows
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Good to have you on board :)
Del
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Welcome! Those are beauties! Jawge
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Nice work. Welcome to PA.
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Welcome aboard, your bows are nicer than any I've made.
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Fantastic! I wonder what you can do with a little longer, wider, and cleaner staves. Keep on posting, please.
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Welcome to PA, those are very nice,looks very well tillered. :)
Pappy
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I look forward to seeing more of your creations!