Lookin' good!

great job !

Very nice job indeed!

Thanks for sharing...


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Glenn

Awesome Job!!        

yours turned out better than mine:


I used some sticks/twigs and laid them on the bow and painted over them---but it works......yours just looks more professional
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Jim,
Great job my friend  

Very cool! Good job Jim!

would love to see the process of that that is awesome! looks great!

Heck of a job Jim,,took me a minute in the first pic to realize what bow that was,,very nice work.

I will post the step-by-step process up this evening. I had done it as a "how -to" on another site, so I just need to transfer it over here.

Thanks for all the compliments folks.

Very Cool!  I have done something similar in the past.  Here's a quickie webpage I did about it.

 Super Simple Camo Job

John...I have to thank you....because that is EXACTLY where I got the idea from.

Looks better than the dip jobs I have seen

Nice job Jim,looks really good.

i should have you do my bow i dont think im that talented

Very good home made camo job. Looks better than factory IMHO!

Okay Gang, some of you wanted the step by step, so I will post it up here. I did this project as a step-by-step on another local site here and I am basically going to copy and paste the "how to" details from there. It was a work in progress when I did the thread, so it may read a bit funny since you have already seen the finished project. I will say that the John Scifre thread and some pics of others' bows here on TG were the "inspiration" to do this.

Anyway....here goes...

I got all the pieces for this bow last year. It is a Bear latched "B" riser with #1 limbs that make it a 60" bow and 50#'s and it was a perfect candidate for a camo dipping job.

I contacted a few camo dippin' guys and things being what they are, I decided that I just could not afford it at the time. So I got this crazy idea to see if I could camo it up on the cheap. Here goes.

I wanted to make it a camo job on the lighter side of things since I really believe that when a deer looks up he sees broken up sky instead of big dark blob. The Krylon selection in my area pretty much sucks, so I decided to go with Rustoleum "Painters Touch" because it had some nice colors to choose from.

Today, I roughed up the bow with some coarse sandpaper. The old finish on the limbs almost fell off to bare glass, but some of it was a bit stubborn. It really only took me about 10 or 15 minutes to sand, wipe down with a tack cloth, and then wipe down with acetone to prepare for my base coat. Attention to detail does not matter to me at this point. I will be using this bow to hunt and I'm not out to win any shows with it.




I have light, medium, and dark colors to use. I decided to use the medium tone as my base color. This 2 coats of Satin Nutmeg.



I am going to let it dry for 24 hours and then begin cutting out my patterns on painters tape to apply for the second color application. Stay tuned, see you in a day or two.

Okay...now that the base coat is on, its time to start "makin' camo".

I am starting with a roll of 1" 3M painters tape, a selection of sharp instruments, a cutting board that Lisa has no clue I am using, some rubber gloves, and absolutely no idea what I am going to do.

Basically, I just rip off a length of tape, lay it down on the cutting board and start slicing away with my razor knife.




Put what you end up with on the bow however it "feels good" and put the scraps aside. You can take the scraps and either add to or re-slice them and add to get what you are after.

Here is what I ended up with tonight. Its ready to get the second color applied when it ain't rainin' outside.

Okay...next step...after first round of tape....

2 coats of Satin Hunt Club Green





And another 24 hours of drying.