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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: What is the best or most common way to mark bow draw weight?
« Reply #15 on: May 28, 2014, 09:46:42 am »
I use a fine tip Sharpie. I sign the bow after 3 coats of spar urethane. Then, I give it a coat of polyacrylic. The spar urethane dissolves the marking. Jawge
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Offline Forest_Farmer

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Re: What is the best or most common way to mark bow draw weight?
« Reply #16 on: May 30, 2014, 09:36:13 pm »
Off to the local Hobby Lobby to buy some stuff.  I will post the results later this weekend.  Thx to all.

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Offline Joec123able

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Re: What is the best or most common way to mark bow draw weight?
« Reply #17 on: May 30, 2014, 10:44:14 pm »
Goodole cedar pencil always worked fine for me
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: What is the best or most common way to mark bow draw weight?
« Reply #18 on: May 31, 2014, 01:21:07 pm »
They used to use like stamps or something for the older elb, I mean like 1800 - 1900 I think, I have seen a bunch (online) with the draw weight stamped on anyhow. I wish I had some stamps like that.
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Re: What is the best or most common way to mark bow draw weight?
« Reply #19 on: June 05, 2014, 12:47:02 am »
Thanks again for all the suggestions.

 I looked at the pics that Loope mentioned and really liked the white writting once the Osage aged, so I went for that look.  I couldn't get the acrylic archival ink that was mentioned in the article but I did find some artist pens that worked well, are waterproof and chemical resistant.  They are called "Jellyroll Classic"  bright white ink 0.4mm.

They wrote pretty good over the spar polyurethane finish and then I put 2 coats of spray spar polyurethane over the writting after it sat overnight.

The bow is a HS graduation gift for my wife's nephew.  He s good kid and could shoot my bow better than me after shooting it for just five minutes.  With any luck I'll have him and his younger brother at the classic next year and cultivate a couple of young primitive archers.

 Here are a couple of pics of the bow.  It was a Osage billet spliced blank I got from Matt W at this years classic.  This is my second bow and got help from Gary Davis on how to put a small flip on the tips without a jig, and help with the tipoverlays from Cody and several others.

My next bow will be one from a Osage stave I harested and split this past winter and I hope to work on it at Elm Hall in a couple months!
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: What is the best or most common way to mark bow draw weight?
« Reply #20 on: June 05, 2014, 03:03:21 am »
That turned out nice!!!
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Re: What is the best or most common way to mark bow draw weight?
« Reply #21 on: June 05, 2014, 08:02:05 am »
The lettering is top notch Ed, looks great and so does the bow. I bet the nephew will be thrilled with that gift, great work all around. :)
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Offline H Rhodes

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Re: What is the best or most common way to mark bow draw weight?
« Reply #22 on: June 05, 2014, 08:35:45 am »
Man, that's beautiful workmanship.  That whole set is outstanding. 
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Re: What is the best or most common way to mark bow draw weight?
« Reply #23 on: June 05, 2014, 08:40:12 am »
That writing turned out nice as did the bow. Cool.  :)
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Offline IdahoMatt

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Re: What is the best or most common way to mark bow draw weight?
« Reply #24 on: June 05, 2014, 09:39:05 am »
That looks great.  The nephew should be very happy.  I saw June 13 and thought you got me a birthday gift.   >:D. Friday the 13 this year.  Great gift very thoughtful your going to be the favorite uncle that's for sure :)

Matt
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Offline Parnell

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Re: What is the best or most common way to mark bow draw weight?
« Reply #25 on: June 05, 2014, 11:32:50 am »
As nice a job as I've ever seen.  White looks awesome, hmmm, might have to go that route next time.  Great gift!
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Offline Forest_Farmer

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Re: What is the best or most common way to mark bow draw weight?
« Reply #26 on: June 05, 2014, 10:37:18 pm »
Thanks for the compliments, but I can't take credit for the lettering, that was wife's steady hand. I did do the archer effigy which I modeled from the "easy eye" logo.  There is no way I could have put it together without the help from lots of folks on this site, at the TN classic and the Marshall MI event. There are some real talented people here!

Ed
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Offline Aaron H

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Re: What is the best or most common way to mark bow draw weight?
« Reply #27 on: June 06, 2014, 08:32:35 am »
That is a beautiful bow, especially for just your second time!  Well done
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Offline Aaron H

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Re: What is the best or most common way to mark bow draw weight?
« Reply #28 on: June 06, 2014, 08:36:04 am »
What kind of snake skins you got there?
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Re: What is the best or most common way to mark bow draw weight?
« Reply #29 on: June 06, 2014, 06:35:58 pm »
Falcon,  They are a couple of Diamond backs that I got from Gary Davis.  He does a nice job on matching set up.
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