Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: kleinpm on February 22, 2014, 06:39:21 pm
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This bow was made as a back up bow for an elk hunt 2 years ago. I spent a total of 2 hours from chasing a ring to final tiller and about 15 more minutes wrapping a leather handle and adding simple knocks from a folded over piece of rawhide wrapped in thread. There are still tool marks I never bothered to sand out because I didn't think it was going to get used much.
The piece of wood was skinny to begin with so there wasn't a lot of time wasted removing wood and it was dry so chasing a ring was easy.
It turned out to be my best shooter. I left the tool marks and simple rawhide knocks because I figure if its not broke don't fix it. I have shot thousands of arrows from it. 60 inches ntn, 1 1/8 inch wide with the last 6 inches narrowing to 3/8 inch, 59 pounds at 27 inches. The arrow in the picture is about 30 inches long.
Patrick
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Very nice tiller!
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Pretty decent bow for such a short build time...
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I like it. :D
-Dan
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Very nice
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Liking it from here too, nice bend. I can spend hours more than that on a bow and still mess up the bend. ;)
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Excellent tiller. Nicely done!
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Simple is good... :)
Nice bow.
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meat and taters bow..me likey!!!! 8)
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love it :)it like most of all my bows "unfinished" >:D
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Great job. Love the back story. Lots of character all around.
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Love a simple and primitive style bow! Nice work!
Tracy
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Slick stick Patrick.
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Sweet :)
Del
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Hard to believe that skinny a$$ed little stick of osage made 60#. Osage rules.
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Very sweet stick of osage. Wondering what the front profile looks like. Nice bend!
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I appreciate the comments that have been posted.
Carson,
It is basically 1 1/4 inches parallel the entire length until it narrows at the tips. One limb has several knots that needed to work with and those places are obviously a little wider.
I am not a great photographer but I hope these show the front profile.
Patrick
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Like those knots on the back. Nice bend on that sleek girl.
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There's a whole lot of wood in those pictures ! Nice character too...
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There's a whole lot of wood in those pictures ! Nice character too...
I guess you mean the logs, floors, countertops and door :). I don't notice anymore. I built this house, all 3 floors, from the ground up with very little help. Just about everything was either made by me or bought for cheap on craigslist.
Patrick
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Nice job! Looks good!
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very very nice, good tiller
chuck
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I dig it man. Just made my mind up to not do overlays on the current osage I am working on. Thanks ;D
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Very nice :) loads of character.
Yuo built the house too? :o Look amazing.
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Got to love that,very cool bow. :)
Pappy
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Nicely done Sir!
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To go around all those knots took patience and skill with osage. Nothing about that bow is simple, it appears to be a well made fine tillered tool. Bows just like that one were used for thousands of years to feed ,clothe, and protect indigenous people very successfully.
Nice bow.
E
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Thanks Eric. I admire the works of art that are posted on this forum by you and others. I posted this bow as an example that it doesn't have to take a long time to make functional bow. I have, and still do, spend a lot of time with staves that fight me every step of the way. Twisted, crooked, knots etc. Thankfully, this just wasn't one of them.
This was one of those staves that seemed like it really wanted to be a bow. The ring was chased on the back in about 15 minutes with another 15 minutes of using a scraper to clean it up around the knots. The knots were kind of uniformly raised, so it was easy to quickly work around them with a drawknife. I went right from floor tiller to brace height and spent about 1 hour on final tiller.
Patrick
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Patrick, thanks for adding those pics. Beautiful osage bow. And that makes my mind up, I am not buying a house, I am building it myself...beautiful home.
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I happen to think these bows are the best way to show off your skills. There are no tricks to hide bad tiller or bad design on something this simple. You either nail it or fail it!
You nailed it.