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Offline david w.

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Re: New osage bow-full draw pic
« Reply #15 on: May 18, 2008, 11:40:14 pm »
man thats too bad i know just ho you feel. :'(
maybe we can start another support group ;D
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Offline Jesse

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Re: New osage bow-full draw pic
« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2008, 11:59:03 pm »
 :o You gonna be a little scared pulling the next one back the first time?  Cut off the built up handle and glue it on the next one.
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Offline Ryano

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Re: New osage bow-full draw pic
« Reply #17 on: May 19, 2008, 12:06:47 am »
Don't feel bad Steve.  I went out to the garage after reading this and snaped the limb clean off that boo backed erc I was working on.....the plug I glued it came loose and kapow! Oh, well it was just a stick with some grass on the back.......I have more.
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Offline FlintWalker

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Re: New osage bow-full draw pic
« Reply #18 on: May 19, 2008, 01:53:51 am »
All is not lost my friend.  Whittle that sucker down and make a kid happy. It'll make you feel better ;)  Saw Filer
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Re: New osage bow-full draw pic
« Reply #19 on: May 19, 2008, 02:29:15 am »
man this is getting scary.  sorry about the bow, hillbilly.  same goes for pat and ryan.  makes you wonder if it's karma.  everybody who's been to the classic, must pay a price for the good time they had, to bring the universe back to an equilibrium  ;D

Offline venisonburger

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Re: New osage bow-full draw pic
« Reply #20 on: May 19, 2008, 02:49:57 am »
Your disappointed face says it all, my picture would have showed my mouth forming a nasty word! you're a stronger man than I am.
too bad she popped
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Re: New osage bow-full draw pic
« Reply #21 on: May 19, 2008, 03:07:48 am »
Yeah! I said some nasty thinge when I broke my 15" point I was just finnishing up. Perfect blade and end snapped it!!! I know better and I did it!  >:(
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Offline medicinewheel

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Re: New osage bow-full draw pic
« Reply #22 on: May 19, 2008, 04:37:13 am »

ooh, it's touchy to see a taugh guy in tears...  ;D ;D ;D
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Offline Hillbilly

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Re: New osage bow-full draw pic
« Reply #23 on: May 19, 2008, 08:40:54 am »
Well, at least I finally learned that osage acually isn't indestructable.... ;D I've gotten away with some screwy stuff on yaller wood before, so I guess I was due one. Like Ryan said, it's a stick (well, two sticks  :) ) Not the first broken one and sure won't be the last. Shannon, if there's enough of it left, that's the plan-I have a six-year-old nephew who likes projectiles.  :) Marius, maybe you've figured it out......hmmmm....Eddie, no, thankfully not a community bow-it would suck worse breaking somebody else's. This was a little rocket launcher I was trying to get done in time to impale some piggies with it next month.
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Offline Marc St Louis

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Re: New osage bow-full draw pic
« Reply #24 on: May 19, 2008, 09:45:43 am »
Pat, dammit, you jinxed me  >:( :)  First one I've popped in awhile, but this one hurts. What really sucks is that I haven't had hardly any time to work on bows lately, so I've been working on this one slowly for the last six months or so, and it was shaping up to be a perfect bow. Had it tillered out to 21"- tiller was looking great, weight was perfect, holding 2 1/2" of reflex, then pow!-sounded like a shotgun going off. Oh well, back to the old drawing board.

I don't think it's supposed to look like that. 
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Offline Pappy

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Re: New osage bow-full draw pic
« Reply #25 on: May 19, 2008, 10:00:22 am »
Hate it when that happens,but we have all been there.Sorry tho,back to the drawing board. :'(
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: New osage bow-full draw pic
« Reply #26 on: May 19, 2008, 10:26:28 am »
It happens, Hillbilly. I just had a hickory bow break. One that I was working on for my wife. I'm used to it. :) Jawge
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Offline DanaM

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Re: New osage bow-full draw pic
« Reply #27 on: May 19, 2008, 11:12:58 am »
Glad I'm not working on any bows right now :)
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Re: New osage bow-full draw pic
« Reply #28 on: May 19, 2008, 11:14:20 am »
Marius, maybe you've figured it out......hmmmm....

why do you think i didn't go to the classic (and i'm not even making bows right now)  ;D

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Re: New osage bow-full draw pic
« Reply #29 on: May 19, 2008, 11:43:24 am »
I'll take the blame for all the broken bows lately. I think in my cursing I may have mentioned specific names. ;D        Too bad, Steve. Like I told David, it happens to the best of us.    Looks like enough for a shorty with what is left.     Pat
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