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Offline Knoll

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Re: Another Invitational 2016 Bow Trade...
« Reply #255 on: February 16, 2016, 11:44:03 am »
Quote from: JonW on February 16, 2016, 11:21:09 am
I have five done still tillering number six.
No pics? = just hot air.
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« Reply #256 on: February 16, 2016, 01:00:07 pm »
If you show you butt up to OJAM I might let you shoot them. Otherwise you just have to believe.
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Offline lebhuntfish

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« Reply #257 on: February 16, 2016, 01:41:37 pm »
Dang John,  you are a bow building machine! I guess I'll just have to go to OJAM so I can shoot one of those dudes!

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Re: Another Invitational 2016 Bow Trade...
« Reply #258 on: February 16, 2016, 02:39:56 pm »
If I wasnt rehabbing a house I just bought I would be done by now. Unfortunately I have to be moved in by April and i still have 4 floors to rip up down to the joists, one entire exterior wall to completely rebuild and 1940s electrical to replace in the entire house.

My bow building is slowed down right now. Just as well, i got a bow with a nice sap wood ring chased all the way and roughed out with one limb bending. I set it down and the belly checked on me. I guess its not dry yet. So, letting it sit wont hurt. I have at least two other bows i intend to build before this is said and done so i have a choice for my vic.
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Re: Another Invitational 2016 Bow Trade...
« Reply #259 on: February 16, 2016, 02:41:14 pm »
Quote from: JonW on February 16, 2016, 01:00:07 pm
. . .Otherwise you just have to believe.

 :o    ???    :o
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... alone in distant woods or fields, in unpretending sproutlands or pastures tracked by rabbits, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day .... .  I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalent to what others get by churchgoing & prayer.  Hank Thoreau, 1857

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Re: Another Invitational 2016 Bow Trade...
« Reply #260 on: February 16, 2016, 05:21:51 pm »
Now Mikey no need to be a player hater!
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Re: Another Invitational 2016 Bow Trade...
« Reply #261 on: February 18, 2016, 07:58:00 am »
I have an osage almost to floor tillered for my guy. I actually have 6 bows now almost to floor tiller.  Hhb and osage. And I am leaning more towards the osage at this point . But will see.
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Re: Another Invitational 2016 Bow Trade...
« Reply #262 on: February 18, 2016, 04:56:10 pm »
Elm stave had crooks at one tip and handle/fade area that prevented string from being anywhere near center of handle. String was on the very very edge of handle.

Took 2 localized steaming sessions to get straightened out. But string is now very near middle of handle.



Finally can get on with deflexing handle and reflexing limbs a bit!
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Re: Another Invitational 2016 Bow Trade...
« Reply #263 on: February 18, 2016, 05:17:25 pm »
Gosh Mike ya trying to make a yardstick or a bow. >:D
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Re: Another Invitational 2016 Bow Trade...
« Reply #264 on: February 19, 2016, 09:52:06 am »
Nearly ran out of clamps!

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Re: Another Invitational 2016 Bow Trade...
« Reply #265 on: February 19, 2016, 09:58:22 am »
That shape excites me.
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Re: Another Invitational 2016 Bow Trade...
« Reply #266 on: February 19, 2016, 10:01:24 am »
Bending that reflex had me holding my breath!
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Re: Another Invitational 2016 Bow Trade...
« Reply #267 on: February 19, 2016, 10:02:59 am »
Think that was bad wait until you have to brace it!
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Offline PaulN/KS

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Re: Another Invitational 2016 Bow Trade...
« Reply #268 on: February 19, 2016, 11:00:31 am »
Elm is tough, and so is Mike  ;), so I have confidence that he and it will do just fine.
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Re: Another Invitational 2016 Bow Trade...
« Reply #269 on: February 19, 2016, 11:10:33 am »
ha! Mike may have bent more than he can chew.
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... alone in distant woods or fields, in unpretending sproutlands or pastures tracked by rabbits, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day .... .  I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalent to what others get by churchgoing & prayer.  Hank Thoreau, 1857
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