Got the "Bug" to build a selfbow a few years back. Worked on it for months and finally finished in June. Call her "June Bug"

"Black Magic" was my first trad bow, a carbon backed bow by Acadian woods. That one put me in its spell thus the name.

"LTS" short for Long Tall Sally, is my longest bow, a 68" 21st Century Lonbow. Like the song says "Long Tall Sally, she built for speed, she got everything that uncle john need."

My Zipper lb is "Hillbilly Deluxe",Zipper curve is "Nasty Pretty" and my Griffin is "Exotica".I dont usually call them by their names.Its strange because I rarely speak to them yet they know just what Daddy wants.    

QuoteOriginally posted by longbowray:
my t/d hill is called "Gut Pile" because if i do my part the bow does his part there will be a gut pile.

My selfbow is called "Gut Fudge" because if I'd done my part, the bow wouldn't have turned out to be a pile of s*@t

QuoteMy selfbow is called "Gut Fudge" because if I'd done my part, the bow wouldn't have turned out to be a pile of s*@t

Thanks! I just spit a fresh pinch of grizzly all over my computer. LOL  

I don't name all of them, but the my 55 # Martin Savannah hunting bow I call "Big Dog".  

The person I bought it from had a huge Mastiff that they used as a therapy dog.  It was the most friendly and the biggest dog I've ever seen.

RonP

QuoteSomeone once told me that a bow has to earn its name. The ones I have right now, currently have no names.

ME too,


Rob, I hadnt thought about Nailbomb in a while. I need to dig that out of the collection for a listen.

The only one that I have given a name so far is my Mosshorn that Missouri Sherpa let me buy from him at Texas Sweat in 2008 I named it Old Yellar.

My old Black Widow HS is "Coyote Ugly". It's all black, nothing to look at, but it killed two coyotes in one morning. That's good enough for me.

I have made a lot of bows and only four of them never received a name.  All of them provided some memorable experiences before being retired; anyone of them might become "unretired" if the mood hits me, but that is highly unlikely.  They are:

"Vlad the Impaler", an Osage selfbow I used to take my selfbow first deer with.

"Budster", an Osage selfbow that took six whitetails a few seasons back is named after my black lab that is no longer with me.

"Max", an Osage selfbow that took several whitetails and a bison a few seasons back is named after my yellow lab that is no longer with me.

"Pigger", an Osage selfbow that took several whitetails and the kitty in my Avatar a few seasons back is named after my choclate lab that is no longer with me.

The last three bows were made and named because something in the stave specifically told me that "this stave" was for either Pigger, Max, or Budster (Saxton).

That should be ever, not never, received a name.

A Few named "Arrow Express"
"Copperhead Carnivor"
"Diamondback Death Stick"
"Bruin Buster"
"Medicine Stick"
I think the last name I pick will be.
"I'm Broke" !!

Oh oh...

I guess a great name for my bow would be: "Magic Stick"!

All of my bows shoot better for other people than they do for me so I just refer to them collectively as Shameless Floosies.

"Xanadu" is the name of my bow...

I have an older Palmer single carbon that is faded and worn and a bit beat up. I call it "D.U.B.", Darned Ugly Bow. I have had several Palmers and this one is the best of them.

A few in retirement are "Star", "Drac", and "Ace".

I lost half of "Rose Red" on a goat hunt.

I also have "Exotica" cause she is dirty-sexy (tulipwood/ziricote).  She has done in a LOT of animals.

A new one is "The Plague" cause she is black death!  (recent muskox and brown bear)

"Yellow Raven" is an osage selfbow (70's Scorpians song)

Also have two that have earned names but haven't received them yet.  One has laid low a few dozen critters and one has just started but was triple blooded on Kauai' (see recent thread).

MY BOWS NAME IS FIREWOOD.
   if yoy miss again your firewood bow

I made my first longbow this year.  I have made quite a few recurves but this is my first attempt at a longbow.

I made it from leftover scraps of bacote, osage red elm and Bamboo.

I re-ground some action bamboo packing strips from bingham projects shipments.

I ground some osage veneers from junk osage wood strips. I had to throw in a red elm lam to get the thickness about right.  

I did buy a piece of carbon lamination "just to raise the price".  

I made my own design of form and found out after glue up that it was a bit too long for my oven!

My youngest daughter was helping me lay up the bow and howled with laughter at my scrambling during the oven crisis.

I even forgot the pressure strips!!  Anything that could go wrong.........did.

Nevertheless..............The bow was born.......Way too heavy...Denny Sturgis might have drawn it but not me.

Well I grinded and sanded and tillered and sanded some more.....I gave up on it for about a week.....Then went back at it.  Finaly after several attempts to get the finnish applied the way I wanted it.............It was done.  70LBS @31".

I never had so much trouble with any bow!  

The darn thing has grown on me and I'm taking it ELk hunting this year.

I call it "OLD YELLER"  because it's a mutt of a bow born of love and hate.  It looks funny but it gets the job done in great fashion.

Most of all.......It just kind of hangs around and as much as I try to resist..........I end up having to shoot the S.O.B.

My Marriah Thermal is named "Big Medicine" as it is SOOOOOOOOOOO Beautiful 73@29" I robin hooded the first arrow I shot out of it with the second arrow I shot out of it at 20 yards. It has killed every animal I have ever loosed an arrow from it at with one well placed shot, including a 300 plus pound wild boar hit as it ran past at 9 yards right through the heart.

I got this one earlier this year.  When I take my first trad deer with it I will call the bow "Red Death".