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Offline coaster500

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Re: 2012 PA Bow Trade - Works In Progress
« Reply #405 on: February 19, 2012, 12:26:59 am »
Bevan you ring chasing  Guru!!!!

I see some great future bows :)
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Re: 2012 PA Bow Trade - Works In Progress
« Reply #406 on: February 19, 2012, 02:05:21 am »
Looking sweet guys I am also in the red handle rasp club, and now on the mummy bow club...but no snake skin surprise :(
Is this bow making a sickness? or the cure...

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Re: 2012 PA Bow Trade - Works In Progress
« Reply #407 on: February 19, 2012, 02:27:48 am »
What you got under there soy ????
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Re: 2012 PA Bow Trade - Works In Progress
« Reply #408 on: February 19, 2012, 12:18:58 pm »
Fans of the Shinto Saw rasp (I am among them) will also LOVE the Nicholson #49 and #50 Pattern Maker's rasps.  I saw a similar rasp on the Lie-Nielsen website but I've not used them. In any case, they are pricey, I bought mine about 30 years ago (holy mackerel) and they were about 70 or 80 bucks then.  Still going strong!

eta: I just checked the prices and thye are about 50-60 bucks. They say they are machine made. I thought they were hand made, maybe they used to be and that would explain the price reduction.  Whatever, I love mine.
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Re: 2012 PA Bow Trade - Works In Progress
« Reply #409 on: February 19, 2012, 12:20:42 pm »
Im saying rawhide Kip! See that TBIII bottle? DEAD GIVE AWAY!
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.

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Re: 2012 PA Bow Trade - Works In Progress
« Reply #410 on: February 19, 2012, 12:38:49 pm »
You're probably right Drums but I've always been the Sherlock Holmes type :)

You should have seen me before Christmas as a kid!!!



Way to time on my hands this morning....  I think I'll go sand something...
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Re: 2012 PA Bow Trade - Works In Progress
« Reply #411 on: February 19, 2012, 06:32:21 pm »
U suuld see when she is a mess >:D it is rawhide the red box was from the wrap. small garage +bow shoppe=hard to keep clean :)
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Is this bow making a sickness? or the cure...

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Re: 2012 PA Bow Trade - Works In Progress
« Reply #412 on: February 19, 2012, 06:43:35 pm »
Looks like we had the same garage builder  :laugh:
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Re: 2012 PA Bow Trade - Works In Progress
« Reply #413 on: February 19, 2012, 06:47:20 pm »
man, I wish I had a small, cramped garage to work in. try doing all your work in your apartment kitchen. My wife is a saint for putting up with it.

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Re: 2012 PA Bow Trade - Works In Progress
« Reply #414 on: February 19, 2012, 08:46:37 pm »
Here are some pics of my stave ready for floor tillering. I'm going with Keenan's sage advice and keeping it a little wider and flatter than I had intended due to the uneven growth rings.







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Re: 2012 PA Bow Trade - Works In Progress
« Reply #415 on: February 19, 2012, 09:26:28 pm »
Weylin if you can pull that tricky stave off it will make a very nice character stave! Good luck man!

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!!

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Re: 2012 PA Bow Trade - Works In Progress
« Reply #416 on: February 19, 2012, 10:54:25 pm »
Thanks Josh. I'll give it my best shot and if it makes a bow then that's what it was meant to be and if it doesn't then I guess that branch just wasn't destined to shoot arrows. I have a set of billets from the same tree that are much cleaner and will be from the tops of the branches so if this doesn't work then i can use those. I've just never spliced billets before so I was trying to stick with something more familiar. All this wood is from that craigslist add for $15 that you tipped me off on.  8)

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Re: 2012 PA Bow Trade - Works In Progress
« Reply #417 on: February 19, 2012, 11:24:58 pm »
Nice glad to see you got it!

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: 2012 PA Bow Trade - Works In Progress
« Reply #418 on: February 20, 2012, 02:12:12 am »
Weylin can't wait to see you coax a bow out of that :)
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Re: 2012 PA Bow Trade - Works In Progress
« Reply #419 on: February 20, 2012, 05:47:58 am »
Got a string on my trade bow, hopefully start tillering it this week. Here is a couple of pics.