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Snakeskin and the order of things
stiknstring:
WHO IS PAUL COMSTOCK? OMG....You may as well also ask who Tim Baker or Jim Hamm are.....
Okay enough of that... Paul Comstock wrote "The Bent Stick" a great manual on bowbuilding available through Horsefeathers Ranch
I have it and reread it often....pretty tattered up paperback now but its still holding together....thanks to duct tape and contact cement.
Coo-wah-chobee:
Ok who is Tim Baker and Jim Hamm ? Never heard of Paul Comstock ! ;D..........bob
stiknstring:
Ignorance is bliss eh..... ;D
Pat B:
Bob, Jim Hamm wrote books about Native American bows. Tim Baker did research on just about every kind of wood as far as bow building and Paul Comstock wrote "The Bent Stick" about building bows with white woods.
I have used one snake skin that was tanned with antifreeze(glycerin) but it had been tanned 20 years earlier. I would rather use green skins or dried skins for bow backings. I have used chrome tanned snake skins for backing but I found that tanned skins acted like a sponge when moisture was a problem.
Stiknstring, just because someone hasn't heard about these guys doesn't make them ignorant. Actually Bob was building bows long before these guys ever made a name for themselves. That would make him quite intelligent as far as a bowyer. He learned the ancient ways, from his ancestors. Pat
stiknstring:
Just thought that he was being SARCASTIC so I was being sarcastic right back....my apologies if he really has not heard of these notables. I assumed, and maybe wrongly so, that he had been in the game and on these sites long enough to probably even PERSONALLY know these guys. So again I thought he was being sarcastic...so returned the favor...my bad. I thought the old smiley face would translate well. I guess you just cannot kid with some people.
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