I wasnt having any luck with my staves for the bow trade. I just couldnt..... get into.... any stave I had. None were giving me that " oh yeah, I'm the one you need to be working on " vibe. So after loosing interest three times on three different staves, Patrick ( lebhuntfish ) says, "Here, I got one for ya.". He hands me a stave I could only describe as a pertified whale turd with berries. Kinked in two different planes, and not a section on it that isnt onot infested he handed it to me. I held it and instantly had that connection that could almost be considered spiritual. That feeling you get when you know your doing at that moment exactly what you were created to do. Yup! Thats the stave I needed. In a few hours with my KaBar I had her shooting.
Now as a disclaimer, Patrick had started on the stave already and managed to chase a ring down its back and had roughed out the peofile before deciding this one wasnt to be his trade bow. I dont know why he didnt want it to be the one he was going to use but boy howdy am I glad I got it from him! Memory is a bit fuzzy, but I think I traded him a roughed out stave for it, but cant quite recall.... refresh my memory buddy!
At mojam I had a few guys shoot it. Target penetration was on point. It would burry half the arrow in. It had some handshock so I addressed the tips width a little bit. Few days after Mojam, I found myself in Missouri again. I brought Untamed along. It had a hole in the back that only went half way through. I filled that one with a piece of turquoise I had and bedded it with sawdust and ca glue. I wanted a different stone on the upper limb hole that went all the way through but didnt have one that fit. So, I made my own. I mixed pulvarized sidewalk chalk and ca glue to make a rather convincing saphire. I shaped it and she dropped right into the hole. Done.
This bow being " untamed " as it was I couldnt think of a proper finish. I was content to leave it as it was, naked and awesome. But while at Erics ( onebowonder ) I accidentally shot low and nailed the citonella candle we were using the night before to light up the target. Pat suggested using that as a finish. Well shoot yeah! Why dont we already do this? I mean seriously, citonella and bow wax should be a no brainer combo! Annnnnnnd its done. That candle wax makes an easy to buff in finish that smells great and didnt look bad either. I really hope it runs off the skeeters. Anyways, enough font, heres some pics!
