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Offline soy

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Re: 2013 Bow Trade Works In Progress
« Reply #330 on: February 15, 2013, 04:54:01 am »
Ryoon...cant wait to see that 1 done, it's looking cool already :o
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Re: 2013 Bow Trade Works In Progress
« Reply #331 on: February 15, 2013, 08:57:00 am »
Im hoping to get mine reflexed and ready to tiller for tomorrow. Wifey is gone allllllll day tomorrow! You know what that means? Im gonna be shooting my trade bow by lunch time. I love this stuff.
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Offline okie64

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Re: 2013 Bow Trade Works In Progress
« Reply #332 on: February 15, 2013, 09:03:56 am »
Quote from: hedgeapple on February 15, 2013, 01:07:55 am
I checked my wood supplie today for some BL.  It seems I've given all the "good" staves away.  I started working down to a ring on one of them.  It has some knot issues.  I don't think I want to tacke a knotty stave for my first black locust bow.  I'll check out the other one tomorrow.  It appears pretty clean, but has a propeller twist.

How easy is BL to heat correct?

Not too bad, it wont bend with heat quite as easy as osage but better than most whitewoods(except hackberry).
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Offline stringstretcher

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Re: 2013 Bow Trade Works In Progress
« Reply #333 on: February 15, 2013, 09:57:36 am »
Went out this morning to my stash pile that I had set aside 2 years ago, and found a log that was starting to split just perfect for some billets.  I had forgot about this log, and happened to see it yesterday while playing with some other stuff.  So I got my wedge, splitting maul, and axe, and off I went.

Then split the halves into quarters.  Now I have 4 billets to work with for my trade bow....not bad looking either...


Going to chase some rings through this weekend and get this bad bow started.
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Offline JonW

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Re: 2013 Bow Trade Works In Progress
« Reply #334 on: February 15, 2013, 10:12:42 am »
The outer two look like good matches. It's funny how different people perceive things differently. I see four bows laying there :P
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Re: 2013 Bow Trade Works In Progress
« Reply #335 on: February 15, 2013, 10:14:08 am »
Depending on how things work out JonW, there just might be...lol
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Re: 2013 Bow Trade Works In Progress
« Reply #336 on: February 15, 2013, 10:19:31 am »
That is funny Jon...cus I see 8 kids bows there  >:D
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Re: 2013 Bow Trade Works In Progress
« Reply #337 on: February 15, 2013, 10:21:08 am »
Depending on how these take heat, that is a big possibility too Chris.....lol :o
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Re: 2013 Bow Trade Works In Progress
« Reply #338 on: February 15, 2013, 10:23:34 am »
Wow...look at that...they just doubled again...now I see 16 baby bows...lmao :laugh:

Yup...burn em chuck..lol
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Offline dbb

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Re: 2013 Bow Trade Works In Progress
« Reply #339 on: February 15, 2013, 10:25:19 am »
Keep that up and you end up with a couple of boxes with toothpicks ;D
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Offline Maxspin

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Re: 2013 Bow Trade Works In Progress
« Reply #340 on: February 15, 2013, 10:28:02 am »
Vine Maple is just starting to bend. I need to add a little reflex to the right limb to match the left side.





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Offline rps3

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Re: 2013 Bow Trade Works In Progress
« Reply #341 on: February 15, 2013, 10:50:45 am »
Wow! Some nice bows being built. I am grateful to be part of the trade.

 SlimBob, you are making me feel bad. I have a piece of hedge I am using as my trade bow that I thought would yield a belly split too. I was going to send it along with the bow, but I chickened out on the split, worried I would end up with no bow.
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Re: 2013 Bow Trade Works In Progress
« Reply #342 on: February 15, 2013, 11:00:29 am »
Don't feel bad yet, I haven't split it.  I have a small band saw, but I use the one at the High School when I need it.  I will probably just split it with a few chisels....carefully.  I've split tougher ones.
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Offline Cardboard_Duck

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Re: 2013 Bow Trade Works In Progress
« Reply #343 on: February 15, 2013, 08:11:15 pm »
Tiller check please -



The working limbs look good to me now, but for some reason it looks a little off. It might just be the shadows... It's pulled out to the desired draw length in the picture and pulls roughly #112 @ 56" :) And so far NO SET!!!!
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Offline bushboy

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Re: 2013 Bow Trade Works In Progress
« Reply #344 on: February 15, 2013, 08:23:29 pm »
Looks awesome cbduck!how long is that sucker?I roughed this thing out today ,got it on the long string and have the outters bending nicely
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