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Offline sleek

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Re: 2020 Bow Trade - Sign up closed
« Reply #135 on: March 23, 2020, 11:30:22 am »
Quote from: lebhuntfish on March 22, 2020, 02:23:47 pm
Well guys I've made a little progress. I've got a really nice piece of winged elm roughed out. It's still in a rough shape but I see a beauty of a bow in it. It's one of the first bows that I have started that I can't quite invision the finished product yet.

I have all kinds of exotic woods, horn, antler, bones and a couple snake skins to choose from. I would like to see if I can get some input from everyone on tip overlays and maybe even some finish designs. If you can think of it I probably have it as far as materials. I've never done any painting on a bow before so I'm not sure that is something that would consider at this time.
I would like everyone to give ideas, suggestions and pictures if possible of your vote for tip overlays and finishing touches. I will choose what you guys suggest. And hopefully my victom will be the one to reveal the winning design.

Patrick

An Elm furry????? I'll take two please!
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« Reply #136 on: March 23, 2020, 09:22:16 pm »
ok, whew. things feel crazy around here. I was hoping to bring a couple staves to the classic and stuff and start working with that. well... not gonna happen i guess unless things die down. i found some osage and a chainsaw. just gotta find some time to cut. then ill feel much better about starting to work on some staves.

oh i broke my scale and lost my string maker, and most of my basic tools. i feel like im going crazy.  :P
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« Reply #137 on: March 24, 2020, 04:15:42 pm »
Couple of choices ....american elm/Osage orange....
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« Reply #138 on: March 24, 2020, 07:09:57 pm »
Juniper stave 59".  I cut the tree just 4 months ago and removed the bark from this stave the day before i took the photos.  Split it into 2 staves and since the wood is still green i clamped both staves to a board to remove the little twist in the staves while they dry
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Re: 2020 Bow Trade - Sign up closed
« Reply #139 on: March 24, 2020, 07:10:58 pm »
Splitting
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« Reply #140 on: March 24, 2020, 11:11:18 pm »
Woot!  Juniper is the coolest.
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Offline M2A

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« Reply #141 on: March 25, 2020, 05:24:54 am »
Had to look up what you meant by "fury design " Patrick...thats an impressive design you got going on there. My first thoughts on that... Elm always looks good with the streaks of cambium imho. Antler tip overlays, not all polished up and smooth but some with a bit of character. Regardless of the extras thats going to make a heck of a swap bow.

Looks like you all got some nice staves to get started on.

Was able to get pics loaded so here's where i'm at. Hope to get back to it after work tonight.
Mike
IMG_3481 by Mike Allridge, on Flickr
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« Reply #142 on: March 25, 2020, 09:38:59 am »
I've got a 20 year old osage stave I'm working on and a couple winged elm, maybe a plum stave if I can get it straight enough. I'll get some pics up as soon as I can. I've been doing some stuff around the house for my wife that's slowed me down a bit. 
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Offline silent sniper

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« Reply #143 on: March 25, 2020, 11:15:14 am »
Here are a few projects I have been working on for possible trade bows. I have a black locust stave roughed out, a set of black locust billets and a pair of osage belly laminations that I bent some nice statics into. It should be interesting to see how these guys turn out.
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Offline Mo_coon-catcher

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« Reply #144 on: March 28, 2020, 01:50:27 pm »
I made a bit more progress on my trade bow. Biggest problem is it’s hickory and we’ve gotten lots of rain so humidity is hanging out in the 70-80% today. So I may get a little further with floor tiller tha. Normal and heat treat. Or get it through long string tiller today before I heat treats I did go to the dark side today and use a power tool to get it down to bending on the floor. I used the angle grinder with a sanding disk. Works awesome for quickly removing material with no effort. Just gotta be very cautious or you can quickly over do it.

Kyle
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Offline Mo_coon-catcher

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« Reply #145 on: March 28, 2020, 07:18:04 pm »
Here it is all heat treated and the shape I decided to go with.

Kyle
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« Reply #146 on: March 28, 2020, 07:35:38 pm »
Looking good Kyle.
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« Reply #147 on: March 28, 2020, 08:00:29 pm »
Got some work done today. 3 osage and a redbud
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Offline dylanholderman

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« Reply #148 on: March 29, 2020, 08:23:06 am »
got some more weight reduced and that dog leg steamed out the other day, should be dry enough to do more work now.



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« Reply #149 on: March 29, 2020, 08:41:43 am »
Osage update. Sinew applied now curing

https://imgur.com/a/6R7ewOd

I think I like this one but best not to get attached so early. It’s still just a stave.
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