I met this guy about 2 years ago and recently he found out my secret addiction. He is involved with the boy scouts and I have spoken to him many times in regard to scoutting. One day I was showing some of my work to a guy who wanted me to make a set for him and Pete walks up. He starts lookin at the bows and said "classes?!?" I said "sure" and so we set a time.
He came over this last Saturday evening and we spent the next five hours getting the basics of wood selection and ring chasing down. After some draw knife and hatchet work we set to straightening a crook in the upper limb. He was fascinated and thrilled to be seeing the baby take shape. While we were sitting there waiting for the wood to cool He says, "how hard is it to make a string for this bow?" And so we made a string. Once again his mouth dropped. "I can't believe that was so easy," he said. (I do believe we got him hooked!) Then we talked about arrows and tools to buy and a cabin to have a workshop in. Seriously, you could se the wheels turnin! By the time the night was over (all too quickly!) he had a stave to take home and look at till the next class and a piece of paper in hand listing what tools to keep an eye out for. i think I might have just made a friend, but maybe I'm reading into it...
Hope we can find time in the next week or so to get back on this. I'm totally psyched to get this finished up for him and get it to shooting. I told him about PA and hopefully he will get signed up and leave his own comments soon.
