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Offline NOMADIC PIRATE

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........and then, there was a beginning !!! ........ a pictures heavy thread
« on: June 28, 2009, 05:58:04 pm »
So, doing some reorganizing, I stumbled upon a bunch of stills of my very first bows.

...Those where the days I had no clue that internet archery sites even existed.

My very first one was a Guava, I pretty much copied my glass longbow, decrowned the back and made a farely flat belly.

I drew it to full draw as soon as it was shaped  :o ...than pushed the limbs back to strait  ::) ;D did a bit of what might be called tillering but I had no instructions at all.

well it actually sent arows to my targed,..I was quite amazed by that  ;D  i did feel a great sense of pride in the accomplishment, and I think I was hooked  ;)


The tiller was amazingly quite even,  but most of the bend was at midlimbs





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Offline NOMADIC PIRATE

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Re: ...and then, there was a beginning !
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2009, 06:01:26 pm »
At the time I was reading Pope's book, so I started my second with a bit more of a clue  ;D


Here the first is shown with the second in the works, ...and those where the tools I was using in the beginning



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Re: ...and then, there was a beginning !!!
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2009, 08:13:44 pm »
Hey, Manny... very cool! How long ago was this?
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Re: ...and then, there was a beginning !!!
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2009, 08:31:57 pm »
Looks like you were doing pretty good Manny, for someone who didn't know what he was doing :).
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Offline NOMADIC PIRATE

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Re: ...and then, there was a beginning !!!
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2009, 09:01:50 pm »
Thanks, this was november 2004.

thanks cowboy, but I was just lucky  :)


My 2nd was a Bamboo backed Eucalyptus,....got the bamboo strips out of one of my window blinds  ;D ;D







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Offline burn em up chuck

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Re: ...and then, there was a beginning !!! a pictures heavy thread
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2009, 09:07:21 pm »
very cool, wish i had recorded my beginnings !

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Re: ...and then, there was a beginning !!! a pictures heavy thread
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2009, 09:08:17 pm »
I don't think my 10th(when I get to it) will look that good.
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Re: ...and then, there was a beginning !!! ........ a pictures heavy thread
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2009, 04:59:46 am »
thanks fellas.



......by the time I got to my 3rd bow I did quite a bit of reading of TBB I, so I had a much better idea of what had to be done.

There was a mention on TBB I that folks new to the craft should stay away from caracter bows,..so of course I had to make a Guava with some caracter  ;D









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« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2009, 10:27:41 am »
holy crap that last one looks really nice
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Offline OldBow

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« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2009, 11:52:31 am »
Holy Crap - they all look pretty nice!
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Offline NOMADIC PIRATE

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« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2009, 10:14:38 pm »
Thanks  :)

My 4th bow was the first I felt good to take hunting, it rewarded me with 2 mongoose the first day and a pig the next,...now I was really hooked ;D





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Offline Nightmyth

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« Reply #11 on: June 29, 2009, 11:38:27 pm »
Nomadic, you're work is always impressive. Good job brother.
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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« Reply #12 on: June 30, 2009, 09:06:53 am »
Good job, Manny. I kept my early bows, LOL, the ones that survived anyway. The ones that didn't are in the garden. Your bows look better than mine. :) Jawge
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« Reply #13 on: June 30, 2009, 10:14:38 am »
And then finally manny got a haircut and a shirt. ;D  I really respect your bows, and the fact you went out and tried bow woods that no one else has tried. 
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« Reply #14 on: June 30, 2009, 01:18:40 pm »
yeah, had to start wearing a shirt once I started posting bows on the internet  ;D
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