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Offline Knoll

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #225 on: February 08, 2016, 08:38:24 pm »
These trades threads are like HUGE build alongs! Grrrrreat!!
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Offline DuBois

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #226 on: February 08, 2016, 08:47:44 pm »
Man, you guys are up to some owwwsomeness around here. I hadn't really looked looked since I been too busy on my own trade goodies and stuff.

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #227 on: February 08, 2016, 09:57:35 pm »
Yep used steam...

Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #228 on: February 08, 2016, 10:32:10 pm »
Pearly, you can put me down for a classic PD static.  :)
I haven't zeroed in on any single stave yet. I have been going through a lot but havent had one really call out to me yet. There is this one pair of yew billets though...
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The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
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Offline MWirwicki

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #229 on: February 09, 2016, 08:20:36 am »
Nice work on the handle deflex, Stringman!  I'll have to try that sometime.
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #230 on: February 10, 2016, 09:26:07 pm »
The weather turned back cold so I stayed inside and did a lot of rasping on my trade bow.  I cleaned up the edges and then started on the limb taper.  This red osage is some dense wood.  The limbs are barely bending when trying to check the floor tiller.  It doesn't take much wood to get a good bow from this stuff.






It has thin rings so the belly should end up looking pretty cool.

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Offline Danzn Bar

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #231 on: February 10, 2016, 09:31:50 pm »
Clint that looks like some thin ring dense red sage....thats some good wood right there. bet it's heavy......
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #232 on: February 10, 2016, 09:42:22 pm »
It's got some weight to it.  There is still a lot of extra meat in the handle so that is adding to it.
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #233 on: February 11, 2016, 09:34:03 am »
I can smell Indiana osage a mile away.
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #234 on: February 11, 2016, 08:53:09 pm »
I got to get going on mine. But now it's small game season and it's got cold, in the thirties last nite. A real good time to shoot tree rats.
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Offline missilemaster

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #235 on: February 12, 2016, 08:21:14 am »
Looks Great Scott and Clintster! I think Im going to go for a  D/R too if  I can find a suitable piece of wood.
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Offline Onebowonder

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #236 on: February 12, 2016, 02:30:21 pm »
<snip>But now it's small game season and it's got cold, in the thirties last nite. <snip>

Yes, my cousin in the Keys was complaining about the FRIGID temps they were having to endure.  Clean down into the 50's...    ::) ::) ::)

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #237 on: February 12, 2016, 02:36:33 pm »
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, they keys. Best place in the world.
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.

Offline DuBois

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #238 on: February 12, 2016, 02:46:14 pm »
Hate to steal away from the thread but I just got some shocking news from a guy named James  and wanted to verify its authenticity.

Mullet, are you a male exotic dancer really?  :-*

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #239 on: February 12, 2016, 02:47:58 pm »
If he is, i know what i am getting my wife for Valentine's day.
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