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Offline simson

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Re: Eastern woodlands flatbow w/pics
« Reply #15 on: January 18, 2013, 12:22:39 pm »
Very nice bow Eric. Like it alot, looks very authentic. Good job on tiller and painting.

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Offline tom sawyer

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Re: Eastern woodlands flatbow w/pics
« Reply #16 on: January 18, 2013, 12:34:09 pm »
Bottom limb looks a little hingey about 2/3 way out toward tip?  Is it taking a little more set there?  Pardon my being critical.

Just a sweet design, I like a bendy handled bow with a little narrowing at the handle.  Lots of working wood and the comfort of a handle.  A very nice outcome.
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Eastern woodlands flatbow w/pics
« Reply #17 on: January 18, 2013, 02:31:48 pm »
Very nice bend on that one.  Cool bow. 
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the mono chord, the initial rune of fine art
The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and..." Maurice Thompso

Offline Keenan

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Re: Eastern woodlands flatbow w/pics
« Reply #18 on: January 18, 2013, 02:37:30 pm »
Very nice bow Eric. I love the NA replicas. That is a fantastic bend!

Offline Arrowind

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Re: Eastern woodlands flatbow w/pics
« Reply #19 on: January 18, 2013, 02:41:17 pm »
Nicely done!
Talking trees. What do trees have to talk about, hmm... except the consistency of squirrel droppings?

Offline Hrothgar

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Re: Eastern woodlands flatbow w/pics
« Reply #20 on: January 18, 2013, 06:15:07 pm »
Thanks guys for the kind words.

Richard--very perceptive, the arrow still has a tendency to roll off the hand but luckily the photographer didn't get shot.

Tom Sawyer--yes it does look like a hinge but actually about 2/3 down the limb the crown dips and is followed by a 'bump' on one side.
" To be, or not to be"...decisions, decisions, decisions.

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Re: Eastern woodlands flatbow w/pics
« Reply #21 on: January 18, 2013, 06:27:11 pm »
P.S. Some people do not like the 60's style panelling on the walls. I like it, seems to ad warmth and comfort.
The way I look at it if something is painted so be it, at some point in time it has to be painted again. Just like bows some are painted, eventually it will get nicked and scratched, but there is nothing like a good old coat of oil or clear coat.
"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."  Joseph Campbell

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Re: Eastern woodlands flatbow w/pics
« Reply #22 on: January 18, 2013, 07:05:04 pm »
Excellent!!!
Is this bow making a sickness? or the cure...