It use to be you couldn't go a week without seeing someones newest creation on here. Now it seems like we never see them. What's up with that? I need some inspiration for this winter!
They're all still hunting. Have to use those creations sometime.
I just finished 2 ash flat bows for nephew Christmas presents and I'm trying to finish the 3rd, a hickory. If I can find my daughter's camera, I'll put 'em on. Good huntin'.
DR
Bow building season dosen't start here in Montana, at least for me, until the middle of January.
They are busy making Christmas presents for all the rest of us less skilled people on this site.
Christmas, Hunting, working to pay for 3.OO @ gallon gas!!!Ho HO HO :)
Yew-LB in the works but will still need some time. I doubt I can find the tranquility I need to finish it befor end of year. But I plan to post some pics if it doesn't blow on me.
Quoteposted by bayoulongbowman: working to pay for 3.OO @ gallon gas!!!
... now, thats funny right there - you lucky dog! I pay $7.42 nowadays and getting worse ...!!!
No it's not :banghead: I hate it.
I have vowed to get back out in the shop. Starting this weekend. In fact, I may be meeting a new cyberbuddy to split some osage he pilfered from somewhere.
I promise to do a buildalong in the next month or so. I've got some osage to cut too so I'll do a cutalong in January also.
Like Walt said....that, and the wife says she needs a "break" from all the hunting crap! Of course she thinks bowbuilding is directly connected to hunting....she's right I guess. She also seems to think the bills need paid.
I posted these two pics earlier this fall, during the season, and they probably got lost in the hunting thread, but I'll show them again for you.
These bows I started late in the summer, and it was October before I got them finished. They were both "experiments" of sorts by me.
The flatbow is backed with elk sinew from a previously "blown-up" bow from 10 years ago....the bow blew, but the backing held. I peeled the backing and saved it all these years, reapplying it to this bow. It worked fine! I killed three deer with it this fall. I named this bow "Frankenstein", on account it is made from previously dead parts!
The static recurve is also made from a previous bow that just did'nt cut the mustard...so I cut it down, bent the tips, then added buffalo sinew to the working part of the limbs. It has impressive cast and smoothness...I've yet to hunt with it, but it is also a real shooter. Both the sinew jobs I used titebond 3...first time for that, and I like the results! I named this bow "The Bride" since both were built at the same time. Both bows are 58 inches nock to nock, and pull in the mid-sixties at 28ish.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v508/woodwizard/newbows1.jpg)
Here is my trusty, bug-eating, lab, assistant.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v508/woodwizard/newbowsandknute.jpg)
And a close-up of the tips.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v508/woodwizard/newbowstips.jpg)
I got several in the works....but won't get to them until after the holidays....I think.
I'll be doing a build along in mid january for a bamboo backed hickory r/d bow. But right now I gotta get me a deer. :archer: -Scott
Those are Beautiful bows Mark!
I hope to give a BBO a try pretty soon!
got a bamboo backed osage on the table to do but the freezer needs filled first and i'm not talking beef.
i'll be finishing one up in the next week or so. i'll post pics!!
Working on a hazelnut selfbow and a bamboo backed lemonwood bow. I'll post pics after the holidays.
Here is a couple of mine.
Mark
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e125/MDS65/OsageBow015.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e125/MDS65/YewBow002.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e125/MDS65/Osageselfbow015.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e125/MDS65/SnakeyOsageRecurve049.jpg
I got a Eucalyptus and a Guava ELB's tillered, just need to put a finish and grips on them, a silk baked Elm flat bow almost done, a silk backed Osage almost done, and a sinew backed Guava in the very last tillering stages,....I just can't find the time to work on them :mad: :mad:
John,
I would like to see a cutalong and your build along with the osage. Thats something that I always wanted to do. Maybe you can finaly get me going.
Nice to see there is still some wood bow builders. I too was wondering if the trend hadn't moved from selfbows to lam bows. Chad
I tried to stop bowmaking for hunting season. Every time I walked through my shop the yellow wood would lure me in. Chase a grain here, heat straighten a challanging stave there, lay out a bow, floor tiller one, just can't stop I guess.
I'm still working on the hairbrained penobscot that I posted a while back. Just doing a little here and there. To many other things going on.
Most of my bow making occurs after hunting season. I have managed to finish a couple this fall. For the last week, we've been without power because of the ice storm. Been hunkered down with coleman lanterns and an infra red heater on a 20# propane bottle to try surviving. Then last night we were blessed with about a foot of snow on top of all the limbs that came down. I'll also be busy topping 16 trees around my yard. Dang, wish they were Bodark!!
Hang in there Ralph! Is your computer running on propane too! Gotta get me one of them buddy. :goldtooth:
Seriously, I hope things get better soon for you guys in that area...nothing worse than being without power, at this time of year, for this long.
I just got a pignut hickory, it shoots great. I remembered that feeling I got when i first saw a brochure of Hill longbows back when i was a kid in early 60s.
I recently finished my first (an osage flatbow), and have a stave of black locust in the works.
Awesome bows, Mark and Mark. Mine are all twisted and stuff. Been huntin' and vacationing. Just almost finished a hickory bow. Jawge
I just had the hackberry stave that I was working on bust last night... :(
Whoa Mark,I never had built one.I am planning on it though.
Those are very nice bows! and I am reading about making my own bow! :)
Everytime I see Masters of the bow #2 I just drool at Gary Davis's self bow...I love the way that bow shoots!Marco#78...if I didnt have 2 thumbs...mmmm and was good with wood... :confused: :wavey:
What Walt said. Hunt in the fall, build bows in the winter. Unbacked yew 90% done, at the stage where I usually blow up a piece of yew - waiting for the quiet month of January.
Shaun,
Thanks for the recipe. Good luck with the yew, are you using the billets you got from me at MoJam?