bumpy & bent buckthorn bow

[Josh B]

That's a dandy!  Me likey!   Josh

[ohma2]

Great primitive look Wow !!!!

[kleinpm]

That really is a great looking bow!

The nice thing about working with bumpy, knotted, crooked wood is that when you use a clean stave it seems so easy.

[Blackcoyote]

awesome work as always....look forward to seeing a few of these in person this summer!

I hear ya on the snow...we're suppose to get 5-8" tonight too!

[hammertime]

yup like others have said your bows have a awesome look...this one especially.makes ya wanna put on your face paint and head out to the wilds-Hammertime

[Badly Bent]

I hear ya Hammer. Would you believe a guy made fun of me for putting on my face paint in camp and heading out for one last try with my primitive bow a few years ago on the last day of that hunt. I came back to camp before lunch having taken my first and only elk that morning and think he then decided the face paint wasn't so bad after all.

[Aaron H]

Man, that's a good looking bow you got there.  Well done

[Wolfgang]

It is as it always is: primitive archery is the real progress, as it connects perfection with knowledge about nature and natural material. This wonderful  bow is one of the very proofs that this reality is still existing on earth. Very well done. Greetings and congratulations from Germany!

[DuBois]

Don't know how I missed this one. I love it. Wish I could do some buckthorn this much justice (since I got a forest of it across the road)

[Badly Bent]

Thanks Falcon, I appreciate the compliment on the bow.
Thank you Wolfgang for the eloquent prose, very nicely said my friend.

Thanks Marco, If you have a forest of this buckthorn keep after it man, you'll get some good bows. I think I've made around a dozen bows from this wood so far but broke at least five others from this wood figuring out what could and could not be done with it, a much higher failure rate than any other wood type I've played with. It grows riddled with knots, twist and others flaws but is awfully durable in spite of its flaws if you can keep the back clean and and work around all the imperfections. For me it is the most interesting and fun wood to try and get a bow out of.