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Offline Knapper

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Yellow Jacket
« on: January 22, 2012, 12:34:45 am »
I know I"m new to the PA community so let me say I should have joined years ago. Flint knapping lead me to serch out more info on the topic and I found a PA mag in a sporting goods store one day and joined the next. I've been hooked ever since! Enough about me here's my latest bow. It got it's name because every time I would warm the shop up to work on it yellow jackets would buzz my head >:( Osage, 43#@24", 67" overall, shoots great! Feel the sting ;D
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Offline Knapper

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Re: Yellow Jacket
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2012, 12:39:17 am »
Took me awhile to figure out I needed to crop the photos to get them to fit. Some I wanted to post I couldn't :-[
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Offline Bevan R.

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Re: Yellow Jacket
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2012, 12:39:48 am »
Very nice curve you have on that tiller. Well done.
Bowmakers are a little bent, but knappers are just plain flaky.

Offline seabass

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Re: Yellow Jacket
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2012, 01:03:02 am »
good job,i like your handle.looks great buddy,Steve
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Yellow Jacket
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2012, 01:04:35 am »
Very nice job on your bow. The tiller looks spot on. Are you drawing 24" in the full draw pic?  Looks longer.
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC

Offline Knapper

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Re: Yellow Jacket
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2012, 01:13:34 am »
Actually my draw is 28" and the bow handles it well!though I have not checked the poundage at 28
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Yellow Jacket
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2012, 01:21:37 am »
about 55#@28"    ;)  She sure does handle 28" well!  8)
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC

Offline Elktracker

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Re: Yellow Jacket
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2012, 02:58:34 am »
Great looking bow and glad to have you!

Josh
my friends think my shops a mess, my wife thinks I have too much bow wood, my neighbors think im redneck white trash and they may all be right on the money!!

Josh Vance  Netarts OR. (Tillamook)

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Re: Yellow Jacket
« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2012, 04:49:05 am »
Should be a fast one, well done.
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Offline Dazv

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Re: Yellow Jacket
« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2012, 08:55:45 am »
very nice i realy like this simple style of bow.

Offline ErictheViking

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Re: Yellow Jacket
« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2012, 01:20:14 pm »
Great work.I like it
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Re: Yellow Jacket
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2012, 02:48:21 pm »
Nice clean simple lines, not sure about the white fluffty bits. S'pose I could chase 'em around the floor... ::)
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Offline Knapper

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Re: Yellow Jacket
« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2012, 08:16:03 pm »
I got the rabbir fur around the grip idea from a bow I saw in the PM articales , bows from the smithsonian. Exellent reading, love to see the bows and gear from the past. :)
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Yellow Jacket
« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2012, 08:50:32 pm »
Those fluffy white bits remind me of them cute young gals that dress up as Santa's Little Helpers.  What can I say, I'm a dirty old man in training.

Nice work on this piece of yaller wood.  Mighty nice looking tiller, gotta be one of those all day shooters from the looks of it!
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Offline Sidewinder

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Re: Yellow Jacket
« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2012, 11:14:36 pm »
Looks good. Lays nice and flat after unstringing.  Glad you joined us.    Danny
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