Non-Primitive Bow Materials

[makenzie71]

I wouldn't use a radial.  Bias-ply all the way.

[George Tsoukalas]

Being a moderator is a tough job. Sometimes we have to trust them to do the right thing.  Ole Jawge trusts the Mod Squad and y'all are doing a great job. This is an excellent site.  I like being able to come here and help people build selfbows. It's the way I relax. Thank you for the job you are doing. Jawge

[Okie]

Being a moderator is a tough job. Sometimes we have to trust them to do the right thing. 

I agree 100% Jawge! I too moderate on another site and it can be a pain in the arrs. The mods here do a great job and I appreciate them letting my bow participate in the BOM fun contest. Even though it doesn't have a chance against all the great bows entered this month. But it's still fun and that's what it's all about!!!

[kayakfisher]

Ah Hillbilly and food here we go! At least with a steel bow you can spear some fine vinison back straps on it and slow roast it over a hard wood fire boy I can smell it now .And not worry about burning your bow up. Anybody have some Kansas city master piece sauce.
                                                                                                                Dennis

[Justin Snyder]

Being a moderator is a tough job. Sometimes we have to trust them to do the right thing.  Ole Jawge trusts the Mod Squad and y'all are doing a great job. This is an excellent site.  I like being able to come here and help people build selfbows. It's the way I relax. Thank you for the job you are doing. Jawge

Thanks George 

[mullet]

 Thanks, Jawge.  Jesse, I have that same, Tru-Value bow, but I bought it at the Flea market for $8. I think when I posted asking if anybody had seen one you posted a picture of yours.

[George Tsoukalas]

Justin and Mullet, you are very welcome and thank you! Jawge

[Hillbilly]

Thanks, Jawge. Eddie, a friend of mine used to have an old steel recurve that pulled about 75#, I don't know what brand it was, but he took it to a shoot one time and stuck an aluminum arrow up to the feathers in a 5" diameter hickory tree. It's still there, I guess.

[wolfsire]

Jesse, you know it will switch to food sooner or later.... And the reason that we don't have a twenty-page set of itemized rules resembling a tax booklet or summons for a paternity suit (with bullet points, subparagraphs, sheaves of fine print and 8x10 glossy photographs with notations on the backs) is simply that we don't need them-we like simple stuff, that's why we make wooden bows.  Most members don't need that-we are a wooden bow site, and common sense and reading the general flow of things over a period of time should tell anyone who pays attention pretty much what is acceptable and unacceptable. There are only a couple people I've ever seen in all my years here who wanted to constantly argue and nitpick about the details of the rules instead of talk about archery. (not talking about you Okie-you're definitely not one of them.) It's not like we're going to come to your house and shoot you in the kneecaps if you post a bow backed with a strip of Goodyear Wrangler A/T radial, anyway.

So much of that is so true. I cannot believe how long those rules are. 

Speaking of Indians.  I'm making mulligatawny soup out of Thanksgiving leftovers ... and a bunny backed mini-naga with a 28" nodeless boo "string" made from an Easter basket.  I hope I can tiller it out and thin up the string.  But, ya know, there is no wood in it.     That last PA issue with the boo bow is what finally convinced me to string up what was basically scrap and make that string. Not too many pix of that type of nock, but I found a couple on the net here and there for examples.

[Marc St Louis]

Jesse, you know it will switch to food sooner or later.... And the reason that we don't have a twenty-page set of itemized rules resembling a tax booklet or summons for a paternity suit (with bullet points, subparagraphs, sheaves of fine print and 8x10 glossy photographs with notations on the backs) is simply that we don't need them-we like simple stuff, that's why we make wooden bows.  Most members don't need that-we are a wooden bow site, and common sense and reading the general flow of things over a period of time should tell anyone who pays attention pretty much what is acceptable and unacceptable. There are only a couple people I've ever seen in all my years here who wanted to constantly argue and nitpick about the details of the rules instead of talk about archery. (not talking about you Okie-you're definitely not one of them.) It's not like we're going to come to your house and shoot you in the kneecaps if you post a bow backed with a strip of Goodyear Wrangler A/T radial, anyway.

Well maybe a bit more than just a couple 

[The Gopher]

mulligatawny is one of my favorite soups.