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Offline bubby

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Re: to join or why not to join?
« Reply #30 on: January 26, 2015, 03:05:22 pm »
I just don't have time , I've got four bows to build and working days i don't get as much bow time as i used to
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Offline half eye

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« Reply #31 on: January 26, 2015, 04:14:28 pm »
I'm not in because I am allready trading w/ 4-5 folks and building  some presentation bows for the Neshnabek (Potawatomi). I believe that Pat set ya straight though, the whole idea for the trade in the first place was to give the newer guys a challenge to make the best bow they could make, not the best bow on the site.....just the best bow they could make. I've made it a point to trade with newer members and never regretted it one minuet.
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Offline Arrowind

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« Reply #32 on: January 26, 2015, 04:31:10 pm »
Quote from: bubby on January 26, 2015, 03:05:22 pm
I just don't have time , I've got four bows to build and working days i don't get as much bow time as i used to


I'm in the same boat as Bubby.   I've got several bows to build for other people right now and just can't commit to another one. More bows to build than time....
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Offline Comancheria

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« Reply #33 on: January 26, 2015, 04:32:16 pm »
Having read up on the spirit of it now, I would not be intimidated--but as huisme implies, I think the threshold a new bowyer should hold himself to is a conservative judgment on his ability to deliver a safe bow--or in my own case--any bow at all! 😊. With that said, I will sit out this year--and be all in next year.

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Offline JoJoDapyro

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« Reply #34 on: January 26, 2015, 04:59:03 pm »
Lots of great answers coming in from the "Big Dogs". Thanks for all the input. And Bubby, I still love my board bow more than my Osage one.
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Offline SLIMBOB

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« Reply #35 on: January 26, 2015, 05:02:32 pm »
I would love to get in.  Had a great time on the last trade I was in.  I just simply can't commit myself this year with all the other things I have going on at the moment.  Cant go in to this kind of thing half way and run the risk of letting yourself and other people down if your not completely sure you can give this trade and the people involved the attention it deserves.  I am sure I cannot.  Next year maybe.
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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« Reply #36 on: January 26, 2015, 05:03:38 pm »
Robert, perfect summation in my book.
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« Reply #37 on: January 26, 2015, 05:17:30 pm »
Tough decision Chris.  I even thought at one point of getting in and if I had to, sending a bow from among the pile of bows I already have.  Decided that was a half measure at best and somewhat outside of the spirit of this event.
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Offline mullet

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« Reply #38 on: January 26, 2015, 09:19:33 pm »
I just made me one since I'm still hunting with one I made in 2004, as a back up. And I need to finish one up for Auggie before the Classic. But I'm working 6 days a week for , possibly the next 5 months and averaging 78-80 hours a week.
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Offline vinemaplebows

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« Reply #39 on: January 26, 2015, 09:21:58 pm »
With those kind of hours...buy one, and don't tell no one. ;)
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Offline JW_Halverson

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« Reply #40 on: January 26, 2015, 09:51:38 pm »
Quote from: Eric Krewson on January 26, 2015, 01:03:33 pm
I only shoot bows I make, no need to trade for one someone else made.

And I am the dead opposite of Eric.  I have meant to make a bow for myself a hundred times over and ended up with that bow in someone elses hands every time. 

And now with the trades I have been in, I have more bows than I could ever become proficient with in a lifetime.  BUT, each and every one of those bows has taught me something I was ignorant of before I received it.  Each one has been handled, strung, hung on the tillering tree, and cross examined like a hostile witness in the hotbox.  And they have all impressed me in one way, if not several ways. 

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Offline huisme

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« Reply #41 on: January 26, 2015, 10:17:41 pm »
I'm kinda like jaydub, of several dozens of bows I've made I only have one of my own, and I only have it because it's a freak experiment in its own right (46"ntn, pull to 25" regularly after it chrysaled at 26").
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Offline JW_Halverson

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« Reply #42 on: January 26, 2015, 10:24:13 pm »
And I will give up one of the bows I have received in trade just like I will give up vital organs....when I am dead!

But I just realized I do have one shootable bow that I made.  The only reason I still have it is because it is a stupid design and I am waiting for it to blow up.  Of course, it will NEVER blow up because I never shoot it.  Catch-22, eh?

I am thinking of taking dribs and drabs of my time between now and Aug15 to turn out a bow as a backup for the trade. 
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« Reply #43 on: January 26, 2015, 10:33:46 pm »
Quote from: JW_Halverson on January 26, 2015, 10:24:13 pm
And I will give up one of the bows I have received in trade just like I will give up vital organs....when I am dead!

But I just realized I do have one shootable bow that I made.  The only reason I still have it is because it is a stupid design and I am waiting for it to blow up.  Of course, it will NEVER blow up because I never shoot it.  Catch-22, eh?

I am thinking of taking dribs and drabs of my time between now and Aug15 to turn out a bow as a backup for the trade.

It's simple: send it to me and let me break it >:D

Let me know if you end up doing/finishing that; everybody on the list seems pretty capable but y'know, just in case ;)
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« Reply #44 on: January 26, 2015, 10:42:01 pm »
Quote from: vinemaplebows on January 26, 2015, 09:21:58 pm
With those kind of hours...buy one, and don't tell no one. ;)


Naaaaw, I see another AR in the picture. :)
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