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Offline Ryano

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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #15 on: December 06, 2006, 01:41:44 am »
Cool, 8) was it made from a branch? ???
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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #16 on: December 06, 2006, 01:45:43 am »
Beauty! OC ;D

Offline markinengland

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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #17 on: December 06, 2006, 08:35:04 am »
Would be great to see some braced pics. Amazing that a bow can be made from such wood. You really need a dead twisty arrow to go with it!
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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #18 on: December 06, 2006, 11:43:48 am »
nice!  never seen persimmon grow like that in my neck of the woods.  it's usually straight as an arrow.
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Offline Badger

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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #19 on: December 06, 2006, 11:53:03 am »
Now thats what i call makin bows!!! I love it. Steve

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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #20 on: December 06, 2006, 11:53:40 am »
Very impressive Ozark, I have a great respect for bowyers that step up to a challenge like that. I bet you leaarned more from that piece of wood than any others you've done. That is one of the best examples of reading the wood and "seeing the bow in the wood", that I have ever seen.  Congratulations.     Keenan

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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #21 on: December 06, 2006, 12:28:58 pm »
Wow. Wow. Wow. You are a madman. That is an awesome bow and you have accomplished a feat that most of us will not even consider. Quite a craftsman.

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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #22 on: December 06, 2006, 12:29:26 pm »
That's excellent! Looks like a piece of driftwood.

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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #23 on: December 06, 2006, 01:03:27 pm »
Ditto to everyone elses' comments.  Can you show us more pictures?
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Offline Primitive1

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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #24 on: December 06, 2006, 01:06:35 pm »
That's just plain nasty!  Now here's one I would never lay down in the woods or leave near a woodpile!  Great work, P1.
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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #25 on: December 06, 2006, 02:58:08 pm »
excellent  :)

have you got a picture of it strung and at full draw? :)

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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #26 on: December 06, 2006, 09:52:04 pm »
I haven't got around to getting pics of it braced but I'll do that as soon as possible. Like I said, it's a bit whip ended but I'm just proud that it even shoots. I'll die with this bow! I've made so many and always trade them, give them as gifts, or sell em. I've had so many nice ones and nothing to show for it but I'll never get rid of this one.

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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #27 on: December 06, 2006, 10:44:35 pm »
Nice character bow. Must have been fun to tiller
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Offline Little John

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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #28 on: December 07, 2006, 01:01:46 am »
I love every hidious snake and twist in that bow. Congratulations.   Kenneth
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Offline Dane

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Re: My Bow Named Hideous
« Reply #29 on: December 07, 2006, 12:39:10 pm »
Ozark, this is just a tremendous bow. Wow, as someone else said. It is clearly a functional work of art.

Dane 
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