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Offline Keenan

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Trade bow prep.
« on: February 09, 2013, 07:51:45 pm »
Since we are all waiting for our trade bow namesand wondering what to build. I encourage everyone to just go ahead and prep what staves you have and it is also a good idea to make a couple bows at the same time. It is always good to have a plan "B" just in case something goes wrong.  That happened to me last year in one of the trades that I was in. I had a couple bows going and one went south so I ended up sending out the Plan "B" bow. It also helps when the secondary bow comes out better then the first plan.
 Thanks to this years trade I now have four new builds going at the same time. No wonder I always have so many unfinished bows in the works. ::)  If Marie tarries any more with those names I might get all my staves roughed out! >:D
 Einie Mienie Minie Moe!


One that I stared on. 58" yew ambush bow

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blackhawk

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Re: Trade bow prep.
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2013, 08:01:04 pm »
Um...yes please....ill take em all  ;D

I'm waiting to dig out wood until I get a name. And I'm trying to finish up my current projects right now first before I commit to another stave,cus I got plenty and one too many going.
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Offline Roy

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Re: Trade bow prep.
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2013, 08:17:44 pm »
Nice stash, Keenan.
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Offline bow101

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Re: Trade bow prep.
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2013, 08:19:04 pm »
Whoa.......I second that.. 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) :o 8) :o 8) :o 8) :o 8)
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Offline Trapper Rob

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Re: Trade bow prep.
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2013, 08:25:40 pm »
What Roy said.
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Offline k-hat

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Re: Trade bow prep.
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2013, 08:33:28 pm »
Yup, the wood envy monster rearing it's ugly head.
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Trade bow prep.
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2013, 08:44:40 pm »
Nice wood pile Keenan.  Is that one lonely piece of osage standing there?
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Offline Will H

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Re: Trade bow prep.
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2013, 09:08:28 pm »
Oh my!!!  :o
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Trade bow prep.
« Reply #8 on: February 09, 2013, 09:15:31 pm »
.....mine are so messed up they wont even lean against the wall.....Lord have mercy on the poor sucker I draw!
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Offline Knapper

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Re: Trade bow prep.
« Reply #9 on: February 09, 2013, 09:31:56 pm »
Now that's just crazy  :o
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Trade bow prep.
« Reply #10 on: February 09, 2013, 09:34:02 pm »
Are those yew logs on the ground as long as they look?   :o

I have a yew sapling going a lot like your one in the master, but mine has about as much deflex as yours has reflex. 
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Offline hedgeapple

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Re: Trade bow prep.
« Reply #11 on: February 09, 2013, 09:39:52 pm »
Ok, everyone who wants to visit Keenan now, raise your hand.   ;D
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Offline adb

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Re: Trade bow prep.
« Reply #12 on: February 09, 2013, 11:01:38 pm »
OH... yah... now you're just showin' off!!  :'(
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Offline Ozzy

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« Reply #13 on: February 09, 2013, 11:03:39 pm »
Yep just showing off lol ;D ;D
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Offline Keenan

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Re: Trade bow prep.
« Reply #14 on: February 09, 2013, 11:33:52 pm »
Carson that one log was given by an old timer that was going to make a bow many years ago. He Told my wife that he had an eight foot long yew log about 12" diam.  Yes I did call imediately. whe I got there my jaw dropped right before my heart sank. It had been sitting outside along his driveway for many years. No bark and badly weather checked. It was stove pipe straight and from a very old tree. There is some clean wood on the inside but the checkes are very deep. Saving for some boo backed or sinew backed bows. The sapling in the Stave Master is a natural reflex. Right at 5 inches.
 
Clint. Yes there is an osage there but the two that I got from you are in the shop. In fact I have been carefully examining the one with the peep hole ;D

Little bit of this and that up there in the loft. Still have a few piles here and there stashed away but we have been trying to get everything put up and organized, as Lulyn is tired of the "piles of stupid sticks".   :o >:D  And then there is the pile of "stupid rocks"   LOL  ::)
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