2014 bow trade works in progress

[tetaxidermy]

Here is a red elm stave roughed out, cherry accents. 1 3/8'' at the fades tapers to 5/8'' tips. Long ways to go yet.

[Blaflair2]

Sweet man!

[DuBois]

Hey Fred, that is looking like it may make a great bow man! Too bad about the keys.

Sweet man!

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[Blaflair2]

So she's coming along slowly. What y'all think of the bend so far?

[hunterbob]

It is looking sweet blaflair2 .

[hunterbob]

Yes it did.

 

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Hmmmmm must be headed out of the country.

[huisme]

Nope, word is the weather is bad so we'll have to wait a little for pics.

[turtle]

Finaly off to a slow start. Picked out a poor looking osage stave and chased a ring today. Now to decide what kind of design this poor stave can handle with the problems it has.

First problem - length
Only 80" to work with.


Second problem - width
Only 3" wide.


Third problem- thickness
Just under 1 1/4" thick


Fourth problem- poor ring count
Only 6 rings in the whole 1 1/4" thickness


 

[Fred Arnold]

WoW! Perfect!  What do you want to do with it? I'd cut it in quarters and make 4 kids bows

[turtle]

WoW! Perfect!  What do you want to do with it? I'd cut it in quarters and make 4 kids bows

Hmmm...... Not sure if my victim has 4 kids. 

[Fred Arnold]

He doesn't need 4 kids to pass it on. Great looking stave and you shouldn't have any problems meeting the lucky guys specs with that one.

[hunterbob]

Hey Turtle . I wish I had some staves with that kind of problems .:-)

[turtle]

Hey Turtle . I wish I had some staves with that kind of problems .:-)

If you ever make it this far south i will let ya pick one out to take home with you.

[Pat B]

  She's all done. Just needs a little more shooting then off she goes to her new home. Might even be another little surprise in shipping tube to keep the bow company on the trip. 

[killir duck]

That's a beauty pat, how did you do that stain job on the rawhide?