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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #1050 on: June 27, 2016, 05:16:20 pm »
Just got caught up on the thread. What an amazing collection of bow work this trade has made, and the generosity displayed by so many is quite uplifting.

I started several different bows for this trade, but I just wasnt feeling it with any of them. I finally got one roughed out that is a perfect fit. It was a stave that Bryce gave me back in 2013 in exchange for bandsawing up a few yew logs he had just cut. It has some nice even backset in it, I just finished tweaking on the limbs with heat and everything lines up real nice. Flipped the tips Saturday, drilled out a couple knots yesterday. Fine tuning the width profile right now. Nocks and tillering it in this week. I am going to go with a naked handle, as it has a beauty mark centered in the handle. Not sure how to set it off with the finish work yet, might go for simple beauty as this stick is already easy on the eyes. When is the deadline?  ;) I have a plan B already finished up, but hope it doesnt come to that.
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the mono chord, the initial rune of fine art
The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and..." Maurice Thompso

Offline Knotty

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #1051 on: June 27, 2016, 05:34:47 pm »
Carson what's that beauty mark?
Can we see a picture 📷😁?
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #1052 on: June 27, 2016, 06:58:07 pm »
Here you go knotty :)
"The bow is the old first lyre,
the mono chord, the initial rune of fine art
The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and..." Maurice Thompso

Offline Knotty

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #1053 on: June 27, 2016, 08:52:40 pm »
That's pretty!

Must really look nice with a few coats of lacquer or tru-oil.
~Isaia

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #1054 on: June 28, 2016, 12:42:38 am »
They might allow me to work on my trade bow here in the hospitals tiny craft room:)
For Occuparional Therapy.
Clatskanie, Oregon

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #1055 on: June 28, 2016, 12:59:12 am »
Thats great news if it works out bryce
failure is an option, everyone fails, it's how you handle it that matters.
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Offline Weylin

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #1056 on: June 28, 2016, 01:53:05 am »
They might allow me to work on my trade bow here in the hospitals tiny craft room:)
For Occuparional Therapy.

That would be awesome

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #1057 on: June 28, 2016, 07:09:11 am »
They might allow me to work on my trade bow here in the hospitals tiny craft room:)
For Occuparional Therapy.


Smooth talker ;)
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Offline mullet

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #1058 on: June 28, 2016, 07:16:31 am »
Bow shop and class in the Hospital, who'da thought.
Lakeland, Florida
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Offline MWirwicki

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #1059 on: June 28, 2016, 08:10:24 am »
Be sure to post pics while working on it.  I'll bet it draws quite a crowd.  Glad to hear your getting better.
Matt Wirwicki
Owosso, MI

Offline Pappy

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #1060 on: June 28, 2016, 09:28:03 am »
Now that would be cool , glad things are coming along.  :)
 Pappy
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Offline PatM

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #1061 on: June 28, 2016, 11:58:39 am »
A defect reared its ugly head and put plan A out of the running. A lot of hard work wasted. Time to turn up the heat on all other works in progress.  >:D

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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #1062 on: June 28, 2016, 12:07:44 pm »
Uh ohhhhhh......get moving rookie.
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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #1063 on: June 28, 2016, 12:25:28 pm »
A defect reared its ugly head and put plan A out of the running. A lot of hard work wasted. Time to turn up the heat on all other works in progress.  >:D

What was the defect?
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Re: 1st Annual PA Invitational 2016
« Reply #1064 on: June 28, 2016, 01:26:38 pm »
A defect reared its ugly head and put plan A out of the running. A lot of hard work wasted. Time to turn up the heat on all other works in progress.  >:D

What was the defect?

  The Ipe has what looks like a shake or drying check mid-limb on the belly.