Peer Review

[PEARL DRUMS]

If he wants to know where to improve, all he has to do is post it and let us know he wants advice. Most wont say anything if not asked to by the builder.

[PEARL DRUMS]

Watch your mouth bubbly. My girly bow can chuck an arrow from here to NoCal.....................

[bubby]

And Jojo, I make lots of board bows they are cheap to make and can shoot as good as any bow

[bubby]

Watch your mouth bubbly. My girly bow can chuck an arrow from here to NoCal.....................

  , yeah it prolly can buddy

[Buckeye Guy]

Pearly
I have some pink stain still if you need it ! 

Steve
Good thread here !!

[George Tsoukalas]

Nice post, Steve.
Sounds like I started something.

Jawge

[IdahoMatt]

Steve I'm with slim on this one.  I am quite new to this and the amount of info you directly contributed got me into working on making better bows, along with all of the knowledge on here.  A true thanks to posts like this one and to everyone with the knowledge and willingness to give it to a newcomer.  I like the sarcasm as well as the criticism.  It helps.  You'll never learn if everyone tells you things are great when they are just polished turds.  Which I can make a mighty fine polished turd.  Too many years building guitars. . Not anymore though.  Now I just cut hair.

[Marc St Louis]

NDN were not strangers to stiff handle bows.

[Badly Bent]

Anyone on here is welcome to critique or ask questions about any bow I post. I know that I could learn something from anyone of the guys on this site, most of what I already know I got from you guys anyway. Not sure I have any unique or special methods for getting a bow made and if you ask me how I did somethings I may not have a clear answer or I may have forgotten what I did during the course of making the bow in question as that is my nature. I usually just plow into them and see what comes out, not the best approach I know but I just enjoy making them.
I do enjoy reading the discussions of others more knowledgeable than myself, it's always interesting to me and I've learned quite a bit from these discussions. As long as there is talk about bows and bow making I'll be here soaking it in...... and who knows I'll probably learn a thing or two from Pearly when he post his girly bow.  

[Jim Davis]

NDN were not strangers to stiff handle bows.

Nor were other primitive peoples. We really have VERY few examples of bows from earlier times. Wood just does not preserve well in the wild.

My primitive period of preference isn't really primitive, it's the 1930s. At least most bows were entirely natural materials in that decade. I  could appreciate the '20s too, but I don't really like the ELBs.

Jim Davis

[mullet]

Good thread, Steve, and Jawge you started something a long time ago . Myself, I like trying to make any style bow, ( except a board bow or hickory) , depending on what the wood will let me do. And then I like pushing the envelope to try and get the very best out of it if I'm keeping it for myself.

[Josh Shuck]

My definition of a primitive bow has more to do with a poorly executed one than a time period or the material it was made from.  A poorly constructed glass backed r/d bow that doesn't shoot as well a self bow is the more primitive bow in my view.

[bubby]

My definition of a primitive bow has more to do with a poorly executed one than a time period or the material it was made from.  A poorly constructed glass backed r/d bow that doesn't shoot as well a self bow is the more primitive bow in my view.




not primitive, just poorly executed