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Offline Pappy

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Re: Finished hop hornbeam bow
« Reply #45 on: December 14, 2015, 04:59:48 am »
Very nice Greg, beautiful bow in all aspects. :)
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Offline H Rhodes

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Re: Finished hop hornbeam bow
« Reply #46 on: December 14, 2015, 10:04:10 am »
Top notch work as usual!  That tiller is perfect.  Bring that one to Tennessee so I can see it up close.  Great work buddy.
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Re: Finished hop hornbeam bow
« Reply #47 on: December 14, 2015, 11:43:49 am »
Man, your bows are the prettiest! I love the dye jobs and painting. Your artwork is the best in my opinion. I wish you could give a how to on some of your paint. But I understand if you are trying to keep it hush hush. You stuff is so cool.

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Re: Finished hop hornbeam bow
« Reply #48 on: December 16, 2015, 11:02:38 am »
<snip>- the light color edges and the circle & dot designs were done by scraping off the finish with a razor blade to expose the wood underneath. I do this before putting the clear finish over everything.<snip>

So, am I to understand that you scraped with a razor blade those perfect little concentric circles and those sharp straight lines enough to remove the surface stain and expose the HHB natural color underneath???  WOW!  :o  Most impressive work sir! 8)  If I had attempted such it would look like 8 bit graphics from the 80's with jagged lines and nicks all over the place.  Beautiful work there sir.

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Re: Finished hop hornbeam bow
« Reply #49 on: December 16, 2015, 06:48:32 pm »
Howard, I'll bring it along for our annual spring get together buddy.

Nathaniel, No hush-hush here my friend, maybe I'll try to document a finish along on a few one day. Most of it involves putting on and removing the first attempt because I don't like the results and then experimenting till I come up with something I like. That makes for a lot of extra steps that most of us don't want to have to do.  ;)

Eric, Thats right the edge of a razor blade to scrape away finish on the circles. I can't do circles freehand well so I cut out contact paper rounds and used the edges of those as a guide by scratching around the perimeter. That part of the project only took a bit over an hour to complete, so not to bad on my patience. ;)

Thanks again to all for the comments, really a good feeling when this group appreciates your work. :)
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Offline Danzn Bar

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Re: Finished hop hornbeam bow
« Reply #50 on: December 16, 2015, 06:54:20 pm »
Just had to take another look at this one... :o wow....love the unbraced, braced and full draw....perfect.... puts a smile on my face :)
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Re: Finished hop hornbeam bow
« Reply #51 on: December 16, 2015, 07:09:47 pm »
Just had to take another look at this one... :o wow....love the unbraced, braced and full draw....perfect.... puts a smile on my face :)
DBar

I agree DBar.  This bow ran up to the top of my "favorites" list really fast.  Just excellent work!
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Re: Finished hop hornbeam bow
« Reply #52 on: December 16, 2015, 08:13:32 pm »
Another greg classic 8)

Offline Selfbowman

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Re: Finished hop hornbeam bow
« Reply #53 on: December 17, 2015, 02:07:00 am »
I agree with Marc . Very nice bow and paintings. Arvin
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Re: Finished hop hornbeam bow
« Reply #54 on: December 17, 2015, 04:09:01 pm »
absolutely super lovely.  :-*
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Offline Scottski

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Re: Finished hop hornbeam bow
« Reply #55 on: December 17, 2015, 06:57:07 pm »
Good looking bow nicely done.
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