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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: A challenging piece of wood,and a question.
« Reply #15 on: July 19, 2011, 05:45:01 pm »
Tomato stake wood. :)Jawge
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Offline dbb

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Re: A challenging piece of wood,and a question.
« Reply #16 on: July 19, 2011, 06:03:33 pm »
Awww...Im dissapointed,with that much twist i think it deserve to be vampire stake.. ;D

/Mikael
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Re: A challenging piece of wood,and a question.
« Reply #17 on: July 19, 2011, 07:37:32 pm »
HOLY S%@#!!! I would love to see that drill bit turned into a bow, good luck,not shure im mentally strong enough for a task that demanding  :o
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Offline dbb

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Re: A challenging piece of wood,and a question.
« Reply #18 on: July 19, 2011, 08:05:36 pm »
Quote from: soy on July 19, 2011, 07:37:32 pm
HOLY S%@#!!! I would love to see that drill bit turned into a bow, good luck,not shure im mentally strong enough for a task that demanding  :o
The mentality i have,its the skill that is doubtful ;)

/Mikael
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Offline RyanY

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Re: A challenging piece of wood,and a question.
« Reply #19 on: July 19, 2011, 08:14:46 pm »
WOW! I'm just impressed that you want to try and make a bow from that. Looking at it, I bet you could make a bendy handle bow with stiff outer limbs, that way you won't have to worry about twist from the outer limbs if they were working. Good luck!
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Offline Sidewinder

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Re: A challenging piece of wood,and a question.
« Reply #20 on: July 20, 2011, 04:22:18 am »
I would have to say that you are either clinically insame or unemployed  with too much time on your hands ,which in either case makes it good therapy. To which I say " if your froggy, then jump".
 Me.... I'm thinking  a stave like that could be dried and thinned downed and cut up and turned into windchimes. It has a nice twist to it that lends its self to display and the banging together in a low d flat might make it have dual appeal. Gitter done. Lol.    Danny
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Re: A challenging piece of wood,and a question.
« Reply #21 on: July 20, 2011, 05:04:07 am »
There is a bow in there crying to be unveiled! Go for it....I would
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Offline dbb

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Re: A challenging piece of wood,and a question.
« Reply #22 on: July 20, 2011, 10:25:50 am »
After round 1 i think im ahead on points after relentless work on the opponents midsection ;D
I will post pics as i go along for all to see my shame/fame ;D
This was done steaming for a 70-80 min and using gstonebergs tecnique with clamps and weights,thanks George for showing that  :)


/Mikael
 
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Offline gstoneberg

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Re: A challenging piece of wood,and a question.
« Reply #23 on: July 20, 2011, 10:47:25 am »
Lookin good.  Lots of progress on that first bending.  You're gonna whip this one into shape.

George
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Offline triggerfinger

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Re: A challenging piece of wood,and a question.
« Reply #24 on: July 20, 2011, 11:08:14 am »
Its come a long way...with that said your still crazier than a skin diving eskimo to wanna do it.
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Offline majsnuff

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Re: A challenging piece of wood,and a question.
« Reply #25 on: July 20, 2011, 11:13:26 am »
WOW!!! if you get a shootable bow out of that, email me with your address, I will ship you a Yew stave and pay the shipping.
God bless.
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Offline dbb

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Re: A challenging piece of wood,and a question.
« Reply #26 on: July 20, 2011, 11:46:20 am »
Quote from: majsnuff on July 20, 2011, 11:13:26 am
WOW!!! if you get a shootable bow out of that, email me with your address, I will ship you a Yew stave and pay the shipping.
God bless.
Not that dont want some yew,but you might wanna rethink that,i live in sweden...you may have to put your home as security to pay the shipping :laugh:

/Mikael
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Offline jpitts

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Re: A challenging piece of wood,and a question.
« Reply #27 on: July 20, 2011, 12:24:09 pm »
WOW.....
can't wait to see the next pics....
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Offline Bow Nut

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Re: A challenging piece of wood,and a question.
« Reply #28 on: July 20, 2011, 05:39:08 pm »
looking good keep that up and you will get a shooter out of it.
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Offline crooketarrow

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Re: A challenging piece of wood,and a question.
« Reply #29 on: July 21, 2011, 12:06:10 am »
 There's a bow in every peice of wood. It's just how bad you want to let it out. I'm sorry but your bows only as good as the wood you start with. I've built lots of bows where the stave made me do this or that. Now I pick the stave and what I want to do. I LIKE MY BOWS TO HAVE NICE CLEAN LINES. So  cut tree's that are nice and clean staves so I end up with nice clean bows.
   I 'd never stop anyone from following what they wish to do. But I only see alot of work in that stave and I only see you setting yourself up for failure but good luck.
 
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