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Offline PatM

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Re: 2016 Primitive Archer Bow Trade Sign up and Information
« Reply #615 on: January 30, 2016, 11:22:25 am »
T-88 is great bow building epoxy. Made by System Three.
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Offline Otter

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« Reply #616 on: January 30, 2016, 11:30:32 am »
Those are nice ... Love the snakey one.... I made one take down bow for a lady from Alaska two years ago for hauling on a plane reason she use it in church teachings all over the world ... I made it really light poundage like a little kids bow but it turned out great.
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Offline dylanholderman

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« Reply #620 on: January 30, 2016, 12:12:34 pm »
I love all of the takedowns being posted, one has been on my list for a while :)

Got a little more work done on my Osage. Used the localized steam bending at the handle to bring the tips in line, went a little past straight we'll see how much of it holds O:)
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Offline Loope

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« Reply #621 on: January 30, 2016, 01:05:03 pm »
Today's goal is to finish working the back down to a single ring and layout the bow.  I found it more difficult to do at night on my workbench, so I waited until I could get some natural light.  Looks like today is a good one for scraping a bow.  Once I get it cleaned up, will post some pictures.
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Offline Fred Arnold

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Re: 2016 Primitive Archer Bow Trade Sign up and Information
« Reply #622 on: January 30, 2016, 01:13:26 pm »
Man you guys are whipping them out. Everything I've seen looks promising. I realize a lot of you have busy schedules and the weekend is the only time you can really get to humpin. I'll bet we get to see lots of work the next couple days.

Weekends offer the best opportunity to post them up and ask for advice because so people are on board. Looking forward to seeing some more of your work.
Fred
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Offline hammertime

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Re: 2016 Primitive Archer Bow Trade Sign up and Information
« Reply #623 on: January 30, 2016, 01:33:51 pm »
Here are the 3 on am currently working on from top to bottom....Elm, ERC and hickory curve
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Offline ajooter

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« Reply #624 on: January 30, 2016, 01:35:51 pm »
That elm has some crazy potential hammer.  Is that all natural reflex?!
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Offline half eye

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« Reply #625 on: January 30, 2016, 01:36:00 pm »
Amen to that Fred.....

Damned Hammer you a busy man !!!!

I took some more pics regarding the steam.....had a rough our for a back-bow and it had about 2" of lateral misalignment so took the opportunity to show how I use the little block to fix that. The rough out is ironwood, 1-1/4 wide and 3/4 thick at time of steaming.

I lay the block down and measure it for the right distance up to the pencil marks I used to mark where the bend was.....5 min in the steam and wallah straight.....

Pictures of how it works and a before and after of the stick
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Offline ajooter

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« Reply #626 on: January 30, 2016, 01:41:56 pm »
Pretty slick rich!  I'll be posting some progress pics pretty quick.  Hopefully have a string on one by the end of next week.
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Offline Fred Arnold

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Re: 2016 Primitive Archer Bow Trade Sign up and Information
« Reply #627 on: January 30, 2016, 01:42:06 pm »
Wow!!! I'm building myself a new jig. I've been using two trees out back that are real close together but that's the cat's pajamas  8)
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Offline ty_in_ND

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Re: 2016 Primitive Archer Bow Trade Sign up and Information
« Reply #628 on: January 30, 2016, 01:48:22 pm »
That's a pretty slick jig, Half eye!  When I get to working on a stave, I'll have to keep something like that in mind.
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Offline hammertime

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Re: 2016 Primitive Archer Bow Trade Sign up and Information
« Reply #629 on: January 30, 2016, 01:55:54 pm »
ajooter....yes reaction wood I guess , cut in august...we will see how much is left after the tillering process-Hammertime
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