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Offline HoBow

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Re: Watery Tart - Carp Skinned Osage
« Reply #15 on: July 26, 2010, 08:21:57 am »
Amazing!  Beautiful finish work.  I like the carp backing.  What part of the elephant dontated to the tips ???
Jeff Utley- Atlanta GA

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Re: Watery Tart - Carp Skinned Osage
« Reply #16 on: July 26, 2010, 08:22:52 am »
Gorgeous bow and an inspired name :)


Offline Alpinbogen

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Re: Watery Tart - Carp Skinned Osage
« Reply #17 on: July 26, 2010, 08:25:05 am »
Timo, The overlays are buffalo horn and old piano key ivory.  Good to see so many Monty Python Fans!   ;)

Offline profsaffel

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Re: Watery Tart - Carp Skinned Osage
« Reply #18 on: July 26, 2010, 09:12:36 am »
Now that's a fine example of allowing the wood to make the bow, and not the bowyer trying to force a particular bow out of a piece of wood. Good job!
Professor of History, Student of Bowyery

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Re: Watery Tart - Carp Skinned Osage
« Reply #19 on: July 26, 2010, 10:40:57 am »
Nice bow, time to harvest some meat.

Offline gmc

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Re: Watery Tart - Carp Skinned Osage
« Reply #20 on: July 26, 2010, 10:44:37 am »
Very nice. Bet that stave was a challenge, but you pulled it off nicely.
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Offline Stickhead

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Re: Watery Tart - Carp Skinned Osage
« Reply #21 on: July 26, 2010, 01:02:51 pm »
Beautiful bow, my leige.  That's one of a kind.

I once posted a bow backed with snake skin sheds.  I called it "2 sheds", but nobody caught the obscure MP reference.

Offline barebo

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Re: Watery Tart - Carp Skinned Osage
« Reply #22 on: July 26, 2010, 10:51:09 pm »
This has to be one of, if not, the best backings I've ever seen !!! The halibut skin was great also, but the scale pattern is killer!!!

Offline Orkraider

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Re: Watery Tart - Carp Skinned Osage
« Reply #23 on: July 27, 2010, 01:33:01 am »
I can't say enough about that bow.  Everything about it looks great.

The carp skins are brilliant, the tiller is perfect, the tip overlays are wicked cool, it's just yummy from start to finish. 

A bowyer of your caliber must surely have no trace of hamster in his matrilineage, nor even a hint of the fragrance of elderberries anywhere in his vicinity.
Riley, Saint Paul, MN

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Re: Watery Tart - Carp Skinned Osage
« Reply #24 on: July 27, 2010, 11:07:41 pm »
Love that bow!  Awesome work!
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