Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: shofu on April 12, 2017, 03:18:11 am
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Anyone have a wife/partner/child that spouts humorous or insightful comments about bow building?
Tonight my wife has three great comments about the stave I am working on:
1. "why don't you hurry up and break that bow so you can start a new one?"
2. "you bring that thing to bed to help regulate relative humidity or whatever and that's it..."
3. " you coming to bed or playing with your stick? Might want to check your priorities."
I stayed up and worked on bow. Is that way out of tiller? Hope I am not the only one...
Cheers,
George
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Maybe she would like to help you...
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When I'm going to the shop at night, I tell my wife I'll be back in an hour or so... Her response is always - "Yah...right"..
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Those are hilarious shofu. My wife has mixed feelings I think. On one hand she is very proud of the things I build and tells me so. On the other hand she is kinda jealous about the time I spend building them. She says sometimes she feels like the other woman. Good thing it's not the other woman playing with my stick or she'd leave me in a second. I usually spend a hour or two before or after work. I'm fortunate that I can work on my stuff at the farm shop. When I get home I do all the normal things that make her happy. Mostly fall asleep in front of TV till she calls me to bed. She's a great wife and partner, mother of my children and grandmother of my grandkids. She knows she's the only woman who gets to play with my stick.lol. Hope you can keep yours happy shofu, sounds like she has a great since of humor and that can go along ways.
Bjrogg
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I once finished tillering a very snakey osage bow, final sanded it, and brought it in the house, into the bedroom and leaned it in the corner by my side of the bed to keep it safe and dry until I could get the finish on it.
Later I went back in to marvel again at the smooth, curvy lines of the bow and was sitting on the side of the bed running my hand down her lower limb when my wife walked in. "Really? You're bringing them to bed now? You've got some serious issues."
Not much has changed :-\
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These are too funny! I'll tell my wife I have to run out to the shop for a minute, and she'll say "ok...see you in a couple hours."
Eric
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Better than a bar stool. I know that's an old one, but it still holds true. At least she knows where I am and that I'm sober.
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Better than a bar stool. I know that's an old one, but it still holds true. At least she knows where I am and that I'm sober.
Very true Pearl, all my hobbies keep me off that bar stool. I think as a married couple were both happy. If I was around all the time she'd just ask me if I didn't have something else to do.lol.
Bjrogg
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My only saving grace is when she comes to the shop and brings something from her daycare to be fixed it gets TOP priority.. She comes and sits in the shop sometimes and just talks..
Pearl drums- She feels the same way
Thanks Leroy
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flintknapping thumb bleeding
" do you need a band-aid or you'll put some T-rex dung on it? " >:D
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.....Do you really need all that wood? I hear that every spring.
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My wonderful wife did all that for awhile. Now she stops by the door and ask if I am hungry and brings me a plate if I am . Arvin
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My wife gave up after almost 30 years of building wood bows. One reason I keep my shop messy is because she won't come down there. The dust makes her allergies kick up. She's an artist and has her own mess and spends lots of time on her projects so she really doesn't have room to gripe.
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.....Do you really need all that wood? I hear that every spring.
My wife say the same:)
I have heard it from my wife, girl friends and friends and compound shooter many jokes like...
-it is a Robin Hood hobby for kids,
-primitives bows can't hit a barn door from inside
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When/if I get far enough along tillering a bow, I begin shaping the handle.
I always bring it in the house for Carol to feel.
She always remarks how comfortable it feels in the hand and its just the right size.
I know they all feel the same to her.
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.....Do you really need all that wood? I hear that every spring.
I heard that more from my brother's and nephew when I first started this stuff. To tell you the truth I thought I had more than I'd use in a lifetime. Wow can't believe what a pile I already used. But Clint if you ever do get to much I could help you get rid of some.
Bjrogg
Knoll they do feel so good and different in the hands. Must almost be how it feels when a blind person feels their loved one by touching their face.
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My wife doesn't say much anymore. She's built a good 7 or 8 bows herself, she even harvested her own juniper and made a nice little bow with it. She understands bow building is my therapy and meditation, and makes me a better husband/dad.
She also understands this hobby makes us a bit of grocery money, so no complaining there.
She's not that stoked on all the bow blanks I have stored in the house though haha but she understands the importance of dry wood as well
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My first wife sent me to my first bow building event, which was clear across the state. She just signed me up for it out of the blue - when I had never done anything of the sort previously. I couldn't believe it. One of the kindest things she ever did for me. (Sadly I later found out there were nefarious and ulterior motives at work... But that's another story!)
My current wife, Lara enjoys the product of my bowyering, but has never really taken to the building of primitive weapons. She does often decorate my native styled drums for me though!
One of our first dates, I invited her to come with me to the monthly JOMO Knap-in in Pineville, MO.
ME: "I'm not sure if you would enjoy knapping or not, but it's fun to try and learn. They have some very good teachers that show-up there most months."
HER:"Oh I love napping, it's one of my favorite hobbies."
ME: <startled>"REALLY???!!! That's so cool! How long have you been doing it?" (I had just taken up knapping and was thrilled to think my potential love interest was already an avid practitioner.)
HER: "Oh, my people have been doing napping for centuries! I started napping when I was a very little girl."
ME: "Wow! That's so kewl... Who taught you to knap?"
HER: "My Dad and Mom, and sometimes my grandpa would practice napping with me."
Some of her ancestors are Native American and she very much identifies with that heritage, so I was really impressed! I mean think of the luck! Apparently I had just randomly stumbled upon a nest of traditional knappers that had passed the tradition and craft down through the family. This was almost too good to be true!!!
ME: "So, do you prefer copper tools or are your people using all traditional Abo tools? My brother goes all abo all the way, ...but I kinda like my copper tools."
...after an awkward pause she told me, HER: "Uhmmmm, we just use a pillow and maybe a blanket. What are you actually talking about?"
She came to the knap-in with me anyway, and even made some little rocks out of bigger rocks for a while, ...which is still about as much as I am truly capable of doing! We'll be married for 10 years now in December. :KN 8) ;D (SH)
OneBow
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Is she coming to Marshall with you Eric? I
Could try to save you a spot if I get there before you.
Bjrogg
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Well, sounds like I am in good company. For the record, we are coming up on 20 years married and she has birthed and raised each of my 6 children - she knows I need to work to cope and that my bow obsession keeps me home and spending time with my kids when they will have me. She is amazing though sometimes likes to know that she is more important to me than the stave I am working...
G
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Yesterday there was someone at my house giving us a quote for new windows. When I asked my wife why she never told me about this she replied, "I did, but you were doing your bows."
This kinda thing happens so often I have to wonder if she ever did tell me cause I know when she says "I did, but you were doing your bows" I really can't argue. ::)
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My wife is pretty good about holding her thoughts to herself. My shop is a corner room in the basement full of dust and drying staves. Whenever the grandkids come over she explains about the room with the closed door, "that's Pa's office, we can't go in there".
Gotta love her.
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Miss Joanie cares nothing about bow/arrows/primitive skill of any kind but loves it ,she says because I do. :) She also said if I leave this old world before she dose she is going to have one heck of a big yard sale. ;) ;D ;D
Pappy
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As a credit to Robin she is supportive as I am of her hobbies as well.It's a 2 way street the way we see it.Even though I know and she knows that if either of us leave this world after all of it is hauled away or sold god knows where there will be some of it to keep around as a keep sake remembrance of them being here.
I think some of her stuff is silly as she can point out the silliness in mine all in jest too but accept and respect things as they are respecting the effort and time each of us put into it.It's just who we are.I still can't entice her to grab a bow and start shooting on her own yet though.
There's a lot worse things out there to be doing the way both of us see it.
Good story Onebowonder!!!!That's like the fella who took his wife out fishing for the first time.
Yesterday I caught a 4 pound bass.Twice after releasing him the first time yet too.For some reason I wished she was there to see it.I knew sh'd get a kick out of it.
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I am divorced but my shop for many years was right behind my ex's home. Part of our aggreement was that she could keep the house if I could keep my shop. We got along well so it was no big deal. I kept up the yard and did all the maintenance on the house.
Anyway she would see me out working on my bows in all my spare time and wander back to chat with me while I worked. She knew she couldn't say anything about the time I was spending because it was my time now but she was never without comments about if I didn't spend so much time working on bows I could be doing this or that. I would just let her know I was doing exactly what i wanted to be doing LOL.
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I used to read a book to my kids called "Beaver gets lost"
Clarence was the beaver adopted by squirrels and when they had nest building lessons he started working on logs and sticks and never would stop.
I am now nick named Clarence cause I just don't want to stop working on my "precious bows"
My wife will ask me "don't you have a bow to work on or something?" when she wants me to get away from her
She also said my bones and bison skulls were creepy. About a week later at the huge neighborhood garage sale the skull was the very first thing anybody asked about and it wasn't even for sale. HA how ya like ma bones now???
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Things my wife says: "no"
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Funny Ben, I have said a lot of times "the wood never says no"
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Wife: Why do we have more trees in the house than in the woods
Going to look for more wood hun
Wife: Have fun playing in the woods!
Every bow ever made
Wife: Oh it's pretty can we hang it up over the bed!
No hun hopefully his one makes it
Wife: I hope not
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My wife is like Pappy's, doesn't give a hoot about archery or bow building. She did remark once that target shooting with a bow is like playing catch with a ball by yourself.
And, she's planning on a big yard sale also. Hope she doesn't sale everything too cheap. :'(
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My missus, doesn't shoot but she has a good eye for tiller.
My fave comment of hers was...
"There's character, and there's too much character" :o ::)
She was right... I re-worked it.
Del
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Eddie, will you have Cathy call me when the day comes. :OK
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My wife does not pay any attention to my bow making,,but she did say if she was gonna shoot a bow ,, she would shoot a real bow like mine,, :)
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So before flying to Arizona last week, I put a bow and a set of six arrows in a tube and shipped them ahead of me. When they arrived addressed to the charming young lady I was there to see, she was confused. She finally got the end opened up and before she reached in to pull out whatever was in there, the light bulb appeared above her head.
Her hand froze and she turned her face to me with here eyes and mouth competing to see which could open the widest. In the tiniest little girl voice she whispered, "no...." I just nodded up and down.
She pulled the bow out and started crying. I try so hard not to make a woman cry, but this time I did it and I did it good. She kept turning it over and over in her hands until she saw the writing on the lower limb....Cersei. If you are a Game of Thrones fan, this hickory stave was half finished and thrown into the corner of shame, shame, Shame, SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! Somewhere along the line, I forgot what was wrong and finished it out at 40# draw at 26". Tiffany sees the good in the Game of Thrones character, Cersei, and claims to see the good in me as well.
When she got around to it, she hugged me hard enough to crack ribs and said, "You made it for ME! You made one of your bows for ME!"
No matter how things may work out with her in the future, I can always say that I really made her happy that one time!
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Cool, Mr Ed and Mr John!!
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Love it when that happens JW. Good Luck in the future
Bjrogg
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Awesome story Mr. Halverson!!! - OneBow
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JW -better than a bouquet of flowers, I bet. Mullet, just label everything over price and mark it firm, non negotiable" let me know when the sale is😀 The bug bites the ladies, too. We sort of had a "failure to proceed" yesterday out in the middle of nowhere, and the Little Fiddle Woman, got tired of sitting around, and picked up a bunch of probably knappAble rocks, and some shards of pottery that are not yet identified. Made a possible disaster worthwhile, luckily only a dead battery. The ladies do Put up with abunch of weird stuff. Got to remember to take 'em out to dinner now and then and some flowers and chocolate or favorite wine😀 Candy is dandy, but. Liquor is quicker" (Ogden Nash)
Hawkdancer
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JW - that is the best. I am a Game of Thrones fan and I think Cersei is hot. I wish I was related to her...
I am also hugely jealous of you. If I made my Jenny a bow she would also cry, then it would revert to the laughter that spawned the crying and she would likely say: "Did you make this? I didn't think you would ever finish one! Who is Cersei? One of your girlfriends? Oh, no nevermind I trust you - you don't have time to cheat on your bows" :D
G
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So before flying to Arizona last week, I put a bow and a set of six arrows in a tube and shipped them ahead of me. When they arrived addressed to the charming young lady I was there to see, she was confused. She finally got the end opened up and before she reached in to pull out whatever was in there, the light bulb appeared above her head.
Her hand froze and she turned her face to me with here eyes and mouth competing to see which could open the widest. In the tiniest little girl voice she whispered, "no...." I just nodded up and down.
She pulled the bow out and started crying. I try so hard not to make a woman cry, but this time I did it and I did it good. She kept turning it over and over in her hands until she saw the writing on the lower limb....Cersei. If you are a Game of Thrones fan, this hickory stave was half finished and thrown into the corner of shame, shame, Shame, SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! Somewhere along the line, I forgot what was wrong and finished it out at 40# draw at 26". Tiffany sees the good in the Game of Thrones character, Cersei, and claims to see the good in me as well.
When she got around to it, she hugged me hard enough to crack ribs and said, "You made it for ME! You made one of your bows for ME!"
No matter how things may work out with her in the future, I can always say that I really made her happy that one time!
Jw, you make lots of folks really happy.
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Me: shall I cook the black rockfish and then watch a movie together?
She: I was hoping to paint an elephant with my foot.
Somebody in my head: are you sure the elephant wants to be painted?