Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: ravenbeak on June 17, 2015, 11:59:38 pm
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Hey Guys,
I always mean to post my bows before they head off from the shop, but as we all know, with life and family. Time is short!
Lately my wife has been encouraging me to post more, and even shrinking the photos down to make it easier. So how can I refuse?
My idea was to start a thread where I can post my bows, and some other interesting things I come across in the shop while working. As some of you know we work exclusively pacific yew wood.
We run a ma and pa home based business in Canada, and have been working at it, full time for about 4 years. We are also paying advertisers with Primitive Archer.
So on to the bows...
cheers,
Jamie MacDonald
Ravenbeak Natureworks
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I recently finished a batch of 6 flatbows, I snuck this one into the batch as my new bow. It is the belly split from a piggy back stave. So, all heartwood, but one clear year on the back. The stave was down about 8 years and was from the first big wind fallen yew I found. The growth rings are amazing, I would guess 60-80 rpi
Named "Kaa" as in your best raven impression. 66" long, slight recurves and python backed. Buffalo horn overlays, inlaid stone arrow pass, horn arrow rest, and padded with seal fur. shoots fast, straight and quiet. 47 lbs at 28 inches.
I really liked this one. Sad to see it go, but there will be more..
cheers,
Jamie
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few more
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Last few for this one
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Another recent one
Dancing Angel, slight recurved flatbow, antler overlays and whitetail rawhide backing. Inlaid stone arrow pass and leather handle, No arrow rest as this one is off to England to shoot in the "primitive class"
47 lbs at 26 inches, but safely tillered to 28
The symbol burned on the outer limbs is the Danging Angel, a representation from a fire fighter of the flame patterns that are created during house fires
I did a little tan silk thread wrap on each limb, one to hide the little check that opened during recurving a bump, and the other to hide the first.
I love the wiggles in this one, and the colours are very striking in person.
Thanks,
jamie
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couple more
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Lastly
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Great idea! I will be checking on this thread often. Nice start, by the way....Beautiful couple of yew bows.
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Very nice set of bows for sure! I really like the first one. And the character on the second is sweet! Keep them coming. Fixing to start my first yew bow myself. Patrick
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Great work, cool bows.
Del
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Very nice ! Bob
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Beautiful work,love them both. :)
Pappy
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Not just utilitarian, these are beautiful!
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Nice bows ;)
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Very nice work, Jamie. Thanks for posting them and thanks for being a sponsor of PA.
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nice bows, some quality work right there!
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Very nice, is that lettering burnt in?
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Thanks guys. And yes the name and angel wings are burnt in. (My wife Jenna does that part.) The burning is quite shallow and sands off easily.
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SWEETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT BOWS
Starting out a bow bissness seams your makeing it harder on yourself building only yew bows.
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They are both beautiful. Really killer looking yew.
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Great stuff as usual ;)
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Gorgeous bows! I'll be sure to keep an eye open for any more you post for us to look at.
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Very cool. Thanks for posting. Looking forward to more of your work.
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Very nice, both bows are strikingly beautiful.
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Hey Jamie. Nice to see you post a few pics. Those bows look great. We've been planning to rip up the coast later this summer. We'll have to pop in and say hi.
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Pretty nice work on that bows!
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Hey Guys,
I was away for the weekend teaching some classes, but am back now and found a few minutes to post some more.
This is in the same batch as the previous flatbows.
This one is named "Hob" 35 lbs at 28 inch. 66 inches long. Again pacific yew, slight recurve, silk ribbon backed and stained, finished with a glossy spray poly. tips and arrow rest are buffalo horn, leather handle and leather padding strike plate and arrow rest. 14 strand fastflight string.
A real interesting story to this one, the proud new owner is a big fan of the robin hood story, and has 35 different versions! Only one version (which he sent me a copy) mentions two characters Hob and Ket, they are people of the forest and Robin Hood saves their lives. They swear that one of them will always be by his side to protect him. (or so I gather, I haven't made it that far in the book yet)
Thanks for all the feedback,
Jamie
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The bow just arrived and I wanted to pass on the wonderful feedback
"Hob has arrived. Tis bow is all that I had hoped for, Beautuful to see and the sweetest shooting bow that I have ever shot.(about 35 bows). We will spend many happy hours together. Love the stain color, finish, leather handle and the horn tips. A couple more sessions and we will be out to hunt groundhogs.
Thanks What a treat for a 79 year old archer celebrating 67 years of serious shooting.
Sincerely Hobs grandfather ( you are the father)"
Now don't that make a bowmaker feel special...
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This one is named Elatha, 55lbs at 28 inch draw 66 inch long. Character flatbow, it has a great wiggle in the lower limb. Horn overlays and rest with inlaid stone arrow pass. Finished with tung oil and a paste finishing wax.
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A few more for Elatha
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Gorgeous bows, very well done
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Those are really beautiful bows! You are a very talented bowyer. Jawge
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Eltha is sweet raven. Nice work.
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SWEEEEEETTT !!
Nice job all the way around!
Thanks for taking time to post and for supporting PA
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Very nice group of bows there
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Hi Fellas,
I am just finishing up a batch of longbows and wanted to take a minute to share some of them here. As always, feedback is appreciated.
Up first.
Hadrian
60 @ 29 " very tight grained wood and amazingly sharp colours, I think the photos show it pretty well. It has some nice wiggles and bumps, The nocks are buffalo and the arrow pass is pipestone. This one is off to Switzerland
cheers,
Jamie
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Very fine work indeed. Glad your wife talked you into posting your work. Look forward to seeing more......keep 'em coming.
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Same batch of longbows,
Named Oisin,
53 @ 28 Antler caps and green malachite arrow pass. This one had 3 nice knots in the belly that I dug out and filled with stone. The one largest was covered by the leather handle.
Started with a slight reflex and ended up perfectly straight after tillering and shooting. It is a quick bow.
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Same batch,
Named Seth (after the cat) and pulls 42 lbs at 27 inches.
This was an interesting bow because the owner is only 5 foot 1 tall. So I tried to keep the bow on the small end of the spectrum. It is about 66 inches long.
Turquoise arrow pass and filled knot above the handle. The tips are Yak horn and polish up really beautiful. The burning on the belly is in memory of the owners deceased cat
The wood is very dainty. It ended up skinny and thin, the wood is amazingly beautiful tight grained with great colour contrast.
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few more,
Thanks,
Jamie
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Jamie, you really turn out some really beautiful bows. Excellent work! Jawge
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Fantastic bows! I admire the woodburning artwork, overall workmanship, and your ability to tiller bows with those wiggles in the yew. Good posts also- especially the naming bits.
c.d.
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As always just beautiful! Great work :D