Hope and Faith Sarrels of 2014

[Terry Green]

Bob Sarrels is already making the bows...we decided to go ahead, and the gals will get a year and 3 months worth of hunting before they go to the St Jude Auction 2015.

I started this thread as Bob wanted to post pics along as he went....

Thanks Bob!!!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

October 2013
Hope - Michael Davenport (wapiti792)
Faith - Boyd Staley (stabow)

November
Hope - Luke Carabbia (Thump)
Faith - Colin Earles (Ceme24)

December
Hope - Larry Adams (Ladams)
Faith - Raymond  Reid (modr)

January 2014
Hope - Zane Dodd (Texasrucurve81)
Faith - Caleb Hinton (Cmane07)

February
Hope - Pete O. (Mamba)
Faith - Barry Loving (bow loving man)

March
Hope - Charley Brown (Sheephunter)
Faith - David Torbert (recurve_shooter)

April
Hope - James Henry (huntnut)
Faith -  Ed Frye

May
Hope - Wayne Booth (fnshtr)
Faith -??????

June
Hope - Jim Dussias (tarponnut)
Faith - Cade Cabrera

July
Hope - John Langley (South MS Bowhunter)
Faith -

August
Hope -
Faith - Timothy McKinley (chinook907)

September
Hope - Ken Gettman (Elkken)
Faith - Charles Blaylock (Bud B.)

October
Hope - Aaron McDonnel (DarkTimber)
Faith - James D Wolffe Jr (Rock 'N Bow)

November
Hope - Troy Burns(Burnsie)
Faith - Chuck Droessler (nineworlds9)


December
Hope - Paul Hentschel(Phoenixarcher)
Faith - Kenneth Adkins (threeunder)


Febuary
Hope - "akaboomer"
Faith -

March
Hope - "Fletcher"
Faith -

April
Hope - "crittergetter"
Faith- not sure yet

May
Hope - Terry Green
Faith -

[Bud B.]

Thank you Bob!!

 

Bob sent me a few pics and asked me to post them up for him.

He has already started construction of these beautifule bows. The risers are going to be made from Pau Ferro. Here is a pic of the block of wood he started with:

 

Bocote and black glass on the limbs with action boo cores laying on the workbench and ready to be glued up!

 

The Bocote in the limbs is going to be awesome looking in the finished bow. Here is the first limb out of the press:

 

I know I, for one, can't wait to see the finished products>

Thanks for stepping up Bob!

Bisch

[Bob Sarrels]

Thanks for posting the pics Bisch. Not to good at that stuff.  Will try to get some pics to ya as we go along.  Zach and I are honored to be allowed to participate in this great thing that Trad Gang does each year.  Thanks go out to Terry Green who has been wonderful to deal with.

Hope you guys have lots of fun and good hunts with these 2 bows.  Looking forward to hearing some good stories and seeing some good hunt results.  God bless.   Bob

[Wagstaff]

Bob and Zach Make some really terrific longbows.. I'll be following this one...  Way to go Sarrels Boys.!

[VictoryHunter]

Those are going to be beautiful!

[threeunder]

Bob,
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Looking forward to watching these two gals come to life.  Hope to be one of the fortunate ones to hunt with Miss Faith.  Regardless, though, will watch this and the hunt thread constantly.

Things are cranking right along on Hope and Faith. Bob sent me a few more pics to add.

The first is a set of limbs glued up and ready to shape!

 

Next is a pic of all the components for the risers.

 

Next is the risers glued up.

 

And finally, the risers start to take shape!

 

It won't be long now till we have pieces together with a whole bow in a pic!

Bisch

[agtex42]

Great news and thanks for adding the build pics Bisch!!  Do you know what model Bob and Zach will be building for the auction? I have to say I've bought and sold a few bows in my short time as a traditional archer but my Sarrels Superstition will have a permanent home on the rack. Can't wait to see how they turn out and I'm looking forward to following along on their adventures!!

Bob told me the other day these were going to be Blueridge SR's.

Bisch

[Bud B.]

Man that wood is mighty purty!    :D

[Marc B.]

Thanks for supporting the kids. These boys are going to be real lookers!

[Todd Alexander]

When can we start signing up Terry?

Originally posted by Todd Alexander:
When can we start signing up Terry?

Hey Todd, see this thread for signing up!

 http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=131117#000000

Bisch

Here is another pic of the first one put together! Zach is eying it to make sure everything is perfect!

 

Unless Bob figures out how to post pics there will not be any more for a couple weeks. I am headed to NM on a mule deer hunt tomorrow morning at 4am.

Bisch

[TxAg]

Looking good!

[DEATHMASTER]

Great looking wood.
Would love to try one sometime.

[Green]

Y'all are moving on these quickly!  Beautiful looking BRSR's that in 15 months should have quite a few stories to their credit.
Thanks Bob and Zack for fulfilling the Hope and Faith project with your fine bows.

[Bob Sarrels]

Zach says he can figure out how to post pics.  More coming soon.

[Ric O'Shay]

Just got a chance to look at the pics of those beautiful bows. Very nice. Thank you Bob for stepping up to the plate for the kids!

That last pic...the background....now I know why Bob's bows are so smoooth!