Primitive Archer

Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: michbowguy on November 04, 2008, 10:41:49 am

Title: Three tool bow....slideshow...
Post by: michbowguy on November 04, 2008, 10:41:49 am

this is an elm bow i started out to be just worked with my hatchet..it progressed so well that i decided to go at it with a drawknife...THEN, it REALY started to shape up and i finished scraped with my knife and cut in nocks and was going to use it for hunting this week!

but i put on a leather arrowpass and a jute handle and gifted the primitive bow to my friend phil, who is a master craftsman.
within three shots he was hitting a leaf at the bale at 15 steps...fast and quiet!
it turned out 57# @ 27"

in the pics you will notice a broken back ring with a wormhole in it...it split at the wormhole and i cut off the rest of the outer ring on the back and she was pulling to full draw with ease!

then i put the fire-scorch job to it.
enjoy phil...

jamie

http://s181.photobucket.com/albums/x74/michbowguy/?action=view&current=229e3ef4.pbw&t=1225808224

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Post by: Scowler on November 04, 2008, 11:16:21 am

Pretty cool tutorial.  Thanks for sharing.

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Post by: OldBow on November 04, 2008, 03:05:19 pm

Any chance of posting a full draw?

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Post by: Traxx on November 04, 2008, 03:56:33 pm

Hey Jamie,
How long you makein yer handles,fer them big ole Paws a yers?LOL

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Post by: michbowguy on November 04, 2008, 09:21:57 pm

too,long.

lol

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Post by: George Tsoukalas on November 04, 2008, 09:32:59 pm

Looks good, Jamie. Jawge

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Post by: michbowguy on November 04, 2008, 11:38:51 pm

i will contact him to have his wife take some pics....as i ran out of battery power in my cheap batteriers i bought for my camera!

its suprisingly fast,for just bieng a selfbow/no flipped tips.
jamie