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Offline Badly Bent

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forgotten display bow
« on: January 04, 2014, 12:08:41 pm »
At my daughters house recently and noticed a bow high up on a dusty shelf in the garage and pulled it down for a look. It was one I had made about 7 years ago and completely forgotten about. At that time she had just gotten married and bought a house and wanted a painted bow to hang for display only. Snakey osage from a 65 yr. old fence post, painted back and suede handle wrap. No drawn or braced photos here, just some pics. of the painted back and snakey limbs. The string on it was made way to long intentionally at her request to keep anyone from from actually
taking it into the backyard and shooting arrows from it. Just thought I'd show a few pics. of the paint here to those who like decorative bows. :)
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Offline Pat B

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Re: forgotten display bow
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2014, 12:14:17 pm »
Cool looking bow, BB.
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Offline SLIMBOB

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Re: forgotten display bow
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2014, 12:15:56 pm »
Cool snakey looking bow Greg.  Neat seeing ones we had forgotten about from years past.
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Offline Parnell

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Re: forgotten display bow
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2014, 12:28:40 pm »
Awesome pattern and color combination.
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Offline TacticalFate

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Re: forgotten display bow
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2014, 12:34:02 pm »
wow, great decoration!
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Offline half eye

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Re: forgotten display bow
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2014, 12:54:06 pm »
B2, man what a paint job....I really like that idea/design
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Offline burchett.donald

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Re: forgotten display bow
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2014, 02:01:20 pm »
  Beautiful bow...I know it's against your daughters wishes, but that puppy is begg'n to be shot! >:D
       A lot of fine work there...
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Offline Trapper Rob

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Re: forgotten display bow
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2014, 02:09:34 pm »
Beautiful bow.
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Offline mwosborn

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Re: forgotten display bow
« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2014, 02:14:31 pm »
Nice!
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Offline Will H

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Re: forgotten display bow
« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2014, 03:42:32 pm »
That's just beautiful! I've built a few from old fence posts. Itching compares to OLD Osage in my book! Thanks for sharing :)
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Offline Dan K

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Re: forgotten display bow
« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2014, 03:51:38 pm »
Thanks for Sharing B2
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Offline Badly Bent

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Re: forgotten display bow
« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2014, 05:43:43 pm »
Thanks for the kind words guys, very much appreciated.
Heres a few more painted designs on a few old osage bows;
 -The one with diamond pattern is rawhide backed osage, also old fence post wood.
 -The one with crawdad symbols was copied from pics. of old native beaded moccasins I saw in a book.
 -The one with flower symbols was copied from pic. of old native leather tobacco pouch and was made for my youngest
daughter 10 years ago when she was only 10 yrs. old.

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Offline bubby

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Re: forgotten display bow
« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2014, 06:10:30 pm »
beautiful Greg, just beautiful, bub
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Offline Danzn Bar

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Re: forgotten display bow
« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2014, 06:43:10 pm »
Your bows are very impressive...not only in design and performance but in the way you use colors and shades of colors... You are a "bowartist "..............Greg
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Offline adb

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Re: forgotten display bow
« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2014, 07:43:48 pm »
WOW! Those are stunning. Lotta work there. Nice.
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