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Offline Adam

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Re: Vine maple deflex, reflex, deflex, reflex, deflex...its a build-along!
« Reply #15 on: November 03, 2012, 08:19:22 pm »
Best of luck!  If you pull it off, I'll vote for it for Bow of the Month, guarenteed! ;)

Offline Badly Bent

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Re: Vine maple deflex, reflex, deflex, reflex, deflex...its a build-along!
« Reply #16 on: November 03, 2012, 09:22:33 pm »
Gotta see this Carson, definitely a one of a kind bow if it works. Good luck, I'll be tuning in to watch this build.
Greg
I ain't broke but I'm badly bent.

Offline randman

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Re: Vine maple deflex, reflex, deflex, reflex, deflex...its a build-along!
« Reply #17 on: November 03, 2012, 09:27:22 pm »
Would that be called a 9 curve bow? ;D
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Offline Trapper Rob

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Re: Vine maple deflex, reflex, deflex, reflex, deflex...its a build-along!
« Reply #18 on: November 03, 2012, 09:50:08 pm »
Can't wait to see it finished.
Rob

Offline aaron

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Re: Vine maple deflex, reflex, deflex, reflex, deflex...its a build-along!
« Reply #19 on: November 03, 2012, 10:20:48 pm »
Heck yeah, that will be an awesome bow!
 by the way next clam dates on the coast are nov 15, 16, 17, then 29,30,1
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Offline soy

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Re: Vine maple deflex, reflex, deflex, reflex, deflex...its a build-along!
« Reply #20 on: November 03, 2012, 10:25:31 pm »
 :o you have my full attention  :o
Is this bow making a sickness? or the cure...

Offline Ifrit617

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Re: Vine maple deflex, reflex, deflex, reflex, deflex...its a build-along!
« Reply #21 on: November 03, 2012, 10:28:01 pm »
Is it done yet! I want to see this sucker bend.. If you pull it off, man o man will it be cool!

Jon

Offline Keenan

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Re: Vine maple deflex, reflex, deflex, reflex, deflex...its a build-along!
« Reply #22 on: November 03, 2012, 10:55:18 pm »
Carson, I have a huge respect for anyone who has the courage to step up to a serious challenge. . years ago I made a bow from a cascara tree that was very similar but a few less curves. I was able to coax a short "all natural" "no heat bend bow that looked like a horn bow. That stave taught me allot. Sometimes the hard path is the best teaching tool. Even if the lesson is "what was I thinking" LOL  Go for it Brother

Offline Blacktail

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Re: Vine maple deflex, reflex, deflex, reflex, deflex...its a build-along!
« Reply #23 on: November 03, 2012, 11:00:37 pm »
holy cow,i would say go for it..as i see that  is what you are doing..that is one crazy stick..good luck..john

Offline sharpend60

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Re: Vine maple deflex, reflex, deflex, reflex, deflex...its a build-along!
« Reply #24 on: November 03, 2012, 11:26:08 pm »
Nice stave ya got here.
I think it can be done, why not right?

Offline Bryce

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Re: Vine maple deflex, reflex, deflex, reflex, deflex...its a build-along!
« Reply #25 on: November 04, 2012, 12:18:43 am »
Was the back facing the sky? I would have went side to side myself, if that was the proper angle. Can't wait to see how she turns out. Clicking the "notify" button so now I'll get alerts on my phone. Now it's time to sit back and watch this madness.
All of us VM guys are gonna be watching this one  ;D
Have fun bro!
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: Vine maple deflex, reflex, deflex, reflex, deflex...its a build-along!
« Reply #26 on: November 04, 2012, 12:25:59 am »
HOLY CRAP! I will be following this very closely, awesome stave!
"The way of heaven is like the bending of a bow-
 the upper part is pressed down,
 the lower part is raised up,
 the part that has too much is reduced,
 the part that has too little is increased."

- Tao Te Ching, 77, A new translation by Victor H. Mair

Offline DavidV

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Re: Vine maple deflex, reflex, deflex, reflex, deflex...its a build-along!
« Reply #27 on: November 04, 2012, 12:29:32 am »
Wow! This is gonna be cool :) wonder what she'll....... I'm wonderin' alot of things actually.
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Offline lostarrow

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Re: Vine maple deflex, reflex, deflex, reflex, deflex...its a build-along!
« Reply #28 on: November 04, 2012, 12:51:52 am »
There wasn't a chain link fence involved in this tree's tortured life, by any chance ,was there?

Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Vine maple deflex, reflex, deflex, reflex, deflex...its a build-along!
« Reply #29 on: November 05, 2012, 01:29:23 am »
"The bow is the old first lyre,
the mono chord, the initial rune of fine art
The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and..." Maurice Thompso