Primitive Archer

Quote from: WhistlingBadger on December 18, 2024, 02:27:12 pm

Yeah, I'm excited to try sinew backing again.  I have only done one successful sinewed bow, a kid's bow.  The one juniper/sinew bow I did exploded on the tree.  But I have a bunch of nice juniper.  My plan is to get a couple bows roughed out this winter, then sinew them in the spring once it warms up a bit.  I also have a couple of decent maple pieces that I might try sinewing.  Stay tuned...

I used to get pronghorn rawhides from a guy in Colorado for pretty cheap. BEST rawhide out there, thin, strong and consistent thickness.

This pyramid design in wood is more compatible than glass . I did this design in a glass bow and it was full of shock. Don’t ask me why. I don’t know.

Yeah, I'm excited to try sinew backing again.  I have only done one successful sinewed bow, a kid's bow.  The one juniper/sinew bow I did exploded on the tree.  But I have a bunch of nice juniper.  My plan is to get a couple bows roughed out this winter, then sinew them in the spring once it warms up a bit.  I also have a couple of decent maple pieces that I might try sinewing.  Stay tuned...

I am working at a hotel these days. It's a great gig - easy work and I enjoy helping guests with their questions about where to go and what to do in the Black Hills.

Last week I finally got the phone call at the hotel I had been waiting for!!! This woman from a large city back east was inquiring about hotel rates and so on for next summer. I was happily giving her the answers she needed when she paused the conversation and said she had an important question for me. She asked in a very serious voice: "Is your hotel haunted?" I replied in an equally serious tone, "No. Our hotel is not haunted." Poor woman, I could feel her deflating on the other end of the line. Then I told her, "Ma'am, I have been in Keystone since 1883 and in all that time I have never EVER seen a ghost here." The silence on the line was deafening as I imagined her doing the mental mathematics. And then the line erupted in laughter. When her hysterical cackling died down she told me to book the dates, haunted or not, she wanted to stay here so she could meet me.

When I turned around, there was the general manager standing behind me with a grin on her face. "You know you are fired for that, right?" she said. "Yeah, I figgered." I responded. But then I do something every week to get told I am being fired. I love my boss, she's a one-of-a-kind real deal. If she tells me to go fight a bear I'll rip off my shirt, rub down with honey, and get to fighting the bear. Because I know she'd be right there beside me in the fight and fighting to win.