This past weekend oldtimberbows(marty) hosted the second annual martyjam up at his place. Both Marty and I took off work Friday and I came up after work Thursday evening. I left with a slight irritated eye,and by the time I got up there my eye was swollen shut and leaking some serious puss. We headed straight to the clinic to get me checked out,and it turned out to be a nasty eye infection. We went back to his place and I took the meds they gave me. My eye was throbbing so hard it gave me a serious headache and I wasn't feeing so hot. I told him I need to go lay down. I stood up and walked out of the shop and bam it hit me like a ton of bricks and I threw up a couple times. Not a good start to the weekend festivities for me at all. A good nights sleep and up at 5 the next morning and I surprisingly felt much better,and like I was able to work on some wood. By 6 we were in the shop and I was chasing a ring
This first pic was right after we got started with just marty and I.
Marty and I were tearing up the wood and in walks ryoon just before noon I think with some wood and bows. He brought his osage warbow that he hadn't shot yet,and we said well hell,lets shoot that sucka in here...lol
heres ryan shooting it
I tried pulling it and in my condition I could only get 28" and that's my excuse cus of what happened the night before
Marty had to have a go as well...here he his shooting it.
During the waiting of the heat shaping of the stave I chased earlier that morning(a r/d with flipped tips) I grabbed another stave to play with and start on. I got this stave from Lee Slikkers a couple years ago in a trade and it was time to bust into her. I first pulled a belly split off her and what a lovely thing that happened,look closely. Heres marty and ryan holding each piece. I later gave that belly split to ryan to play with,and he came up with a pretty wild way to make a bow from it...lol
While bouncing back and forth from heat shaping and this stave,and helping marty lay out a couple of my style short r/d bendy mollys I got this staves ring chased and shaped up to some lines.
Around sometime in the eve Guy(buckeye guy) pulls in to join the fun. And soon after him Cody(misslemaster) walks in with a bunch of buckthorn goodies for all of us to play with
Heres cody tillering a soon to be drop dead gorgeous bamboo backed buckthorn
Marty and Guy are to the right of him,and ryan is sitting on the left shaping up a European buckthorn warbow
By just past midnight we all had enough and decided to retire for the night. 18 hours of play for the day
Next morning rolls around and we are back at it by 6 in the morn on Saturday. By mid morning it was a full house with 13 guys. Chris(pearl drums),matt(mwirwicki),DQ(Daryl) and his friend Jeremy(first timer making his first bow),Bob(chamookman),and Larry(martys friend) and hope I didn't forget anybody?
Heres an action shot of the bs,i mean hard work that was going on all day...I mean just look at how hard Matt is working...lol
Marty and bob are talking over martys stave,and ryan and larry chatting it up while ryans working his European buckthorn warbow.
Heres s while being tillered shot to help ryan assess his tiller on the buckthorn he was making....just look at all those hinges and flats spots...I thought he knew how to tiller ..lol
just kidding ..that thang had some character and side profile kinks. You can se r/d bow ryan sinewed the previous night before,and you can see codys boo backed buckthorn up on the table.
Time for some 100 pound buckthorn bow shooting
Pearl was helping out Daryls friend Jeremy with his first time making a bow and when he had some time he grabbed a snakey osage and ran a ring...geez chris...smile buddy and at least look like your having fun...why so grumpy
Heres cody chasing a ring on a mulberry stave. Guy is playing with some string and wrapping it around his neck...must be into that asphyxiation fetish crap...lol
You can see my character hole bow getting overlays in the vice,and one of three molly shortys marty laid and shaped out,and a black locust stave I gave guy to his left.
Ryan cutting out a hackberry that he ended up rushing on and bending too far before tempering it. He said screw hackberry,im never using it again...lol
heres daryls buddy Jeremy shotting his first bow...turned out at
67@28...and a damn fine first tillered bow....good job Jeremy ...congrats
Heres a close up shot of my character hole bow (1 3/8" wide hole) right before I shot the first shots out of her
Cody shooting a glass bow marty made a couple years ago..TRAITORS...sorry guys for showing that...but I had to expose the false prophets...lol
By just after midnight it was time to close shop. another 18 hour day of fun
By sunday morning it was just marty,guy,cody,and myself for some morning bowmaking fun. and heres cody shooting in his boo backed buckthorn
killer bow cody
What a grand weekend,and another great martyjam(and that's an understatement)......thanks for hosting all of us...and all the great grub we ate too. cant wait for next years already. ill see some of yins guys down in tenneresee...and feel free to post anymore pics you guys took.
