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Title: Therapy Bow !
Post by: Forwardhandle on October 13, 2018, 07:38:57 AM

I got a little side project going I'm in the middle of building some cabinets & shelving to finish off the dreaded Honey Dew list so my only bow work for the next month is hand tools in the middle of the night , I call this the therapy bow some thing about working with hand tools in the middle of the night is relaxing , but cut some nice osage a few years back and ended up with a supper clean 44 '' stave out of the mix ,I got this one chased down nice rings and one minor pin on the edge that will disappear when worked down , going to put a slight flip in the tips , I have some nice moose & elk sinew that will darn near cover half a limb at a pass it will make a nice native quiver bow if I can pull it off these short little native bows a harder to nail down then they look, I'm going for 45lb @22'' the stave has taking some nice natural reflex to I'm going to reverse string in about 4 '' reflex before sinew !

Title: Re: Therapy Bow !
Post by: Roy from Pa on October 13, 2018, 07:45:19 AM

Nice..

If ya don't feel like working night shift on bows, just send that stave to me:)

I see two awesome belly lams in it...

 :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Therapy Bow !
Post by: Forwardhandle on October 13, 2018, 08:05:05 AM

How many do you think you could get out of this ugly stave ? :bigsmyl:

Title: Re: Therapy Bow !
Post by: Roy from Pa on October 13, 2018, 08:07:39 AM

At least one bow maybe 1.5 or 2 depending on how wide it is..

Ya wanna sell it?

Title: Re: Therapy Bow !
Post by: Forwardhandle on October 13, 2018, 08:12:46 AM

That one is all ready ruffed into another bow but if I cut some more this winter I usually do I will let you know my other greedy friends all ready cleared me out last year  :goldtooth:

Title: Re: Therapy Bow !
Post by: Roy from Pa on October 13, 2018, 08:15:46 AM

And you call them friends?

LOL

Title: Re: Therapy Bow !
Post by: George Tsoukalas on October 13, 2018, 08:52:31 AM

Looks like a good stave with nice big rings. Jawge

Title: Re: Therapy Bow !
Post by: Pat B on October 13, 2018, 10:19:24 AM

That should make a sweet little bow.  :thumbsup:
 Don't listen to Roy. He'd ruin a perfectly good stave yo make lams. Sinful, I tell ya, sinful!   :nono:

Title: Re: Therapy Bow !
Post by: Roy from Pa on October 13, 2018, 10:21:04 AM

PAT...  :o

Ah never mind...

LOL

Title: Re: Therapy Bow !
Post by: Forwardhandle on October 13, 2018, 11:04:07 AM

Pat I should give Roy that snake stave I have see him make snakelam bow 😊

Title: Re: Therapy Bow !
Post by: Pat B on October 13, 2018, 11:52:56 AM

 :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Therapy Bow !
Post by: Forwardhandle on October 13, 2018, 12:01:40 PM

Hey Pat I know you made a few of these shortys Im trying to decide which way to tiller one this short Brad Smith told me he has done them both ways the last one I did was a 62'' and I left the center a little stiff for more of a eliptical tiller I was thinking with this one being this short maybe a full arc and maybe a little more sinew in the center ? I dont think with those short limbs would get much schock full arc ? Its going to be a short version of the bow bellow ? Yep big rings George 

Title: Re: Therapy Bow !
Post by: Flem on October 13, 2018, 01:20:16 PM

I like that ugly stave, more than the fat one. Nice job chasing the ring on that snaky sucker!

Title: Re: Therapy Bow !
Post by: Forwardhandle on October 13, 2018, 03:47:03 PM

Nice ratio early late wood the more hedge I cut and split the more selective I get ,a lot of work , found a osage forest last year and have permision to cut all I want it is setting in a river bed bottom and no good way to get a truck in to it but there are some nice strait bark trees there ! I have some others targeted for osage riser blanks !