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Re: Yew, Southern Style-picture heavy
« Reply #60 on: April 14, 2012, 11:56:12 am »
Beautiful all around Eddie!
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Re: Yew, Southern Style-picture heavy
« Reply #61 on: April 14, 2012, 12:04:19 pm »
Mullet:  That's really nice.  I have a shorter piece of yew that I now know what I'm gonna do with it.
What method did you use to bend your tips?  Heat gun, boil, steam?  Did you treat the yew with anything prior? 

Kudos to ya, Eddie.  That's a fine looking bow.  Be sure to bring it to the Classic.  I'd really like to see it in person. 
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Re: Yew, Southern Style-picture heavy
« Reply #62 on: April 14, 2012, 12:52:00 pm »
Pat, Thanks! I've had a love, hate relationship with Yew. I was watching your bild along closely because I have a short one like yours in the works, also

Brian, Thanks, now go clean your screen ;).

dmikey, if it had been a Whooping Crane I would have really been keeping an eye on it. I saw them at Three Lakes and Homassassa a few years ago.

Thanks, Dave those nights in the hot box really helped.

dwardo, Jeff, Thank you very much, I like short.

Matt, I used a heat gun on the tips, it bent real easy, no oil or Crisco. I had to do the one tip a little at a time so as not to overheat that old crack in the wood in the curve. I'll have it at the Classic, Thanks for the kudos.
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Re: Yew, Southern Style-picture heavy
« Reply #63 on: April 14, 2012, 01:10:55 pm »
Beautiful bow. I saved the picture looking out on the lake. Might just become my computer background,  :laugh:. Reminds me of northern indiana. Used to swim in a small lake on the border of indiana and michigan. There are lakes every 10 feet up there it seems.
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 the lower part is raised up,
 the part that has too much is reduced,
 the part that has too little is increased."

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Re: Yew, Southern Style-picture heavy
« Reply #64 on: April 14, 2012, 06:22:58 pm »
Very nice Eddie.  The picture with the Crane next to you is very neat.
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Re: Yew, Southern Style-picture heavy
« Reply #65 on: April 14, 2012, 07:04:20 pm »
toomanyknots; thank you.

Marc it was cool when it happened. I've been close to them before but not where I could touch one.
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Re: Yew, Southern Style-picture heavy
« Reply #66 on: April 14, 2012, 10:43:55 pm »
nice eddie, i knew you would finally get that bow finished,,are you sure cade didnt finish it for you while you were at his place?? >:D >:D

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Re: Yew, Southern Style-picture heavy
« Reply #67 on: April 14, 2012, 10:53:40 pm »
If it had a bikini I think I would ask it out.....she's pretty. I lik'em short with curves. Nothin like good bow porn, gotta get back to cleaning the screen!
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Re: Yew, Southern Style-picture heavy
« Reply #68 on: April 15, 2012, 12:05:43 am »
James, it's been so long since Cade built a bow I'm not sure he remembers how. ;)
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Re: Yew, Southern Style-picture heavy
« Reply #69 on: April 15, 2012, 11:28:09 am »
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Re: Yew, Southern Style-picture heavy
« Reply #70 on: April 16, 2012, 10:16:02 pm »
Thanks, crooketarrow.
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Re: Yew, Southern Style-picture heavy
« Reply #71 on: April 17, 2012, 12:31:59 am »
Eddie I sure like looking at this bow. Beautiful work indeed! Thanks for posting her  :laugh:

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Re: Yew, Southern Style-picture heavy
« Reply #72 on: April 17, 2012, 07:07:50 am »
Thats a beauty,looks even better in person, That has to be one of my favorites
I have seen,just plane pretty. :) :) Glad you got her dried out. ;)
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Re: Yew, Southern Style-picture heavy
« Reply #73 on: April 17, 2012, 08:56:59 am »
Thank you Cipriano, Pappy.

Pappy, your hot box did the trick.
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Re: Yew, Southern Style-picture heavy
« Reply #74 on: April 29, 2012, 07:24:21 pm »

     

Well having had the pleasure to see this little bow in person, it is even prettier than the photos.  Though the photos themselves are deserving of praise also.  JW, the mama crane put her beak on Eddies cheek, to say,  :-*" Wow, sweet bow! " :-*  Then when he moved her beak away from his face, she felt slighted, and started to get critical, and started analyzing his lock point, and whether a three finger, style grip would be appropriate for this style bow. ;)  It is a beautiful little bow, very light, and well finished.  Everything just seems to be in the right place at the right proportions, not too much of any one thing.  Just a beautiful simple bow, that really catches the eye.  Apparently so, as is evidenced by the extreme curiosity of the Mother Sandhill and her Chick. ;) 8) Gordon, or should say Mr. Yew, you two must be on the same wave length, very similar bows! toomanyknots, you don't to go swimming in that lake!  Especially at night!  No skinny dipping in that lake! :o  Some big water lizards live there. :o  Beautiful bow Eddie, and in a wood you don't normally work with to boot! ;)  Oh, by the way, for those of you who are fortunate enough to be going to the Classic, you might want to stand back a ways from Eddie.  He might be a " Typhoid Mullet"  He caught a bug from the guys at work, and has a sore throat, and sniffles.  He claims he is feeling better.  Refuses to take any C, or hot peppered garlicky chicken soup, or anything else, says he will just let take it's course.  Stand up and fight back Eddie! >:(  Or, he might have a nasty parasite from all of those tick bites he got, last week or so.  Oh yeah, he is a tick magnet! ::) ;)  But he makes a heck of a bow despite it!  Shoot, I even walked away with a Swedish Normark hatchet, and a few chunks of heated coral!  Hopefully, I can do more with the coral, than make pretty gravel :P  No, No, he gave them to me.   ;) ;D     Great job, Eddie! 8)

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