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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Whats tougher than building a great bow?
« on: February 21, 2012, 09:35:04 pm »
Cleaning up the crap hole you try to build them in!  :o  I havent done much more than shovel curls out for a year straight and left the rest behind. I have a guest coming over Thursday and thought I'd better get after it. I should have taken before's, but most of you have seen pics of the dump. I hauled out a total of 90 gallons of junk, 35 gallons of dust, bark, shavings and curls. And about 10-12 empty packing containers of various sizes and shapes. Both air filters where plugged so I cleaned them up only to have them plug up again shortly after. Yah, it was dusty in there ;). I also added the metal rack to free up my arrow building desk once again. It has been buried for a long time. I took a pic of the four corners and one in the center showing my now organinzed mini-stash of staves and such on the back wall. Some of you may recognize a few items. Tell me if you do, that may be kind of fun???



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Offline paulsemp

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Re: Whats tougher than building a great bow?
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2012, 09:38:49 pm »
there is something about building bows and being a slob that go hand in hand. don't worry you are not the only one!
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Re: Whats tougher than building a great bow?
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2012, 09:42:04 pm »
the place looks cleaner than mine.those last two staves look familiar.have fun with it buddy,Steve
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Whats tougher than building a great bow?
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2012, 09:44:46 pm »
Winner-winner chicken dinner Steve! This could be fun, I may have to give the slower guys a few clues huh?
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Offline Lee Slikkers

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Re: Whats tougher than building a great bow?
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2012, 09:50:31 pm »
I hope the 3rd to the last pic isn't a shot of the wood your using for your Bow Trade recipient  >:D  LOL

Looks to clean to function in...just had to do the same on this end (having to put our house up for sale or risk loosing it to the bank) and now I want to start another bow but don't know if I have another round of Deep Cleaning in me at this point.
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Whats tougher than building a great bow?
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2012, 09:55:47 pm »
Thats new form wood Lee. However the bow prepped for sinew with bundles of sinew around it is for *******, so hopefully ******* doesnt get on here and recognize ******'s bow! Maybe I should chop it out of the pic:)
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Whats tougher than building a great bow?
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2012, 09:57:05 pm »
Just think how messier it would have been if you pealed all of that Indiana osage you hauled back north.  Now that you got it all cleaned up, maybe you could actually finish a bow.  What's it been, 2, 3 days since you finished the last one  ;D
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« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2012, 10:03:40 pm »
Lay off Clint! I've been busy cleaning man. Keep up the teasing and your HHB stave gets more and more and more twisted pal...
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Offline osage outlaw

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« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2012, 10:08:56 pm »
I'm just kidding  :)  Good luck finding a piece of HHB that isn't twisted though  ;)

That's a mighty fine collection of bows hanging on that one wall.
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Offline seabass

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Re: Whats tougher than building a great bow?
« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2012, 10:12:37 pm »
is that what that white wood is?i thought it was hickory.how is that hhb to work with?
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« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2012, 10:15:37 pm »
The two hanging bows are hackberry, and the racked bow is ash Steve. The staves against the wall are white ash and hackberry.


Edit: The bow all the way on the left is a little hickory flinger. I built it from an outside piece split off a massive tree, junk basically. Its a 25# bendy and sealed with bee's wax and heat treated.  Its fun to plink with in the yard.
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Re: Whats tougher than building a great bow?
« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2012, 10:16:50 pm »
HHB is some good stuff to work with.  It makes a really nice bow.  In our humidity Steve, I would take HHB over hickory any day.
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Offline seabass

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Re: Whats tougher than building a great bow?
« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2012, 10:23:17 pm »
i just finished my first hackberry.it is 69" 53@26.i am no pro,but it turned out really well for me so far.first one that i was confidant enough not to back with some sinew.i have one more hackberry stave to play with.the next one is going to be much better.i learned alot on this last one.
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Offline criveraville

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Re: Whats tougher than building a great bow?
« Reply #13 on: February 22, 2012, 03:19:30 am »
Pearly that shop looks mighty fine. Before Gus came down in October I took a day off from work to clean my barn/shop ;) My wife thought it was funny..

That hat on the wall looks cool.

When I grow up I want to have a shop as neat and tidy as Clint's  :laugh:

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« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2012, 03:47:35 am »
You haven't seen my shop.  The only thing neat and tidy in there is the floor.  I can't stand a messy floor.  My workbench usually has about a 1' layer of "stuff" on it.
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