What did you do today?

talkingcabbage · March 15, 2013, 12:36:00 AM

heartlandbowyer, where do you get pink actionwood at?

Roy from Pa · March 15, 2013, 06:06:00 AM

Awesome stuff, Troy.

John cute pictures.

Buemaker · March 15, 2013, 12:33:00 PM

Just received today a 30 feet long sample of clear bow glass, from a European factory. I am cutting it up at the moment and shall do a glueup with a piece on some dark wood. I am anxious to see how transparent it is. Hopefully I can kiss another maker adios. Bue--.

Robertfishes · March 15, 2013, 01:12:00 PM

30ft glass...are you making a looooooooongbow? I hope its crystal clear..good luck and let us know how it looks.

kennym · March 16, 2013, 07:49:00 PM

Wrote a check to a hardwood store... OUCH !!

Got some good stuff, includin zebra, sassafras, curly maple, bubinga,and some others....

David Flanrey · March 16, 2013, 08:56:00 PM

Opened a nice little package with a gift in it from good ole Roy. Two really nice flint hunting points ready to be hafted to some switch cane shafts. Sorry didn't take any pics. Very nice points. Thanks Roy!

Also, went to my grandson's 4th birthday party and was told that I was going to be grandpa again! #3

DVSHUNTER · March 16, 2013, 09:52:00 PM

Congrats david!

Now Kenny, you know how much fun it was spending that money.

Trux Turning · March 17, 2013, 01:24:00 PM

Started on a riser to go with some spalted limbs I'm working on- first glue up of many for this riser..

red hill · March 17, 2013, 06:43:00 PM

Patched a split in my water main leading to the house... I HATE digging up water lines and splicing... Still have more digging to do to check for other leaks... So much for "Spring Break"!

RedStag5728 · March 17, 2013, 07:15:00 PM

Worked on my new osage orange stave chasing a ring for the back. The ring I am chasing is below about 9 or 10 other rings so i've been scraping like crazy. I've got the ring chased probably a bout a foot down the stave and still got a long way to go. I spent probably about 5 hours total today scraping, I'll try to spend more time tomorrow.

I'll scrape for about an hour here, take a break, scrape for another hour here, so on and so forth. This helps me from getting too tired as well as getting into a hurry. Maybe between tomorrow and Tuesday i'll have her wrapped up, then I can work on drawing the profile and using a hatchet to get her to the rough profile.

The stave is 72" so I think I'm going to shoot for a 68" bow NTN (70" T2T) and 65# @ 28 (so about 55# at 26.5 my draw). This leaves me a cushion in case she's a little lighter than that so that I can still have a deer slayer.
What do you guys think?

Roy from Pa · March 17, 2013, 08:38:00 PM

Got ready for a Bownanza here at my shop tomorrow..

David Flanrey · March 17, 2013, 08:45:00 PM

Sounds like fun Roy. I hope to get some bow building done this week too.

Roy from Pa · March 18, 2013, 06:51:00 AM

Awesome March morning here in SW Pa. 30 degrees, snow and freezing rain, windy as hell. What more could ya ask for on Bownanza day? Hope all the guys make it safely.

razorback · March 18, 2013, 11:04:00 AM

Red Hill, I would love to be able to dig up a water line, it was -10 here this morning and we got a foot of snow in the forecast. So stop being a pansy Roy.

Got more work done on 3 bows this weekend. Getting close to weight and final tiller on my daughters osage bow and worked on to shorties that may be my swap bow. Have to flip there tips and then put rawhide on the cherry bow. need to thin some boo to back a hickory bow that is the third option for the swap. Thought i had a great clean piece but found a big divot in the back. looks like someone dropped the corner of an axe on it. Pretty sure it wasn't me but coulda been. Will try to post pic's of the flipping party tonight.

Roy from Pa · March 18, 2013, 05:18:00 PM

Had fun today and worked on some bows..

bowhntineverythingnh03743 · March 18, 2013, 06:24:00 PM

Cool Roy!

Got a bunch of work done today on three different bows. Will post some pictures up tomorrow afternoon.

Paul/KS · March 18, 2013, 06:36:00 PM

Took advantage of a day off with good weather

and went hiking with the dog out back. Cut 6 nice dogwood shafts to season and looked over some spots for stands for the next season. After 3 hours of walking around the dog and I are both a bit tired now...

Al Dean · March 18, 2013, 06:44:00 PM

Test shot the TD recurve I am working on. Shoots great.

BCWV · March 18, 2013, 08:13:00 PM

Man, I wish I could be in one of Roy's bownanzas. That would be sweet.

I got my new Grizzly put together and tuned up. I can't wait to use it.

Thanks for your advice Roy

David Flanrey · March 18, 2013, 10:39:00 PM

Brad, very nice saw.

Roy, I'm jealous. Looks like you guys had a good day to work.

Schools are out here for spring break so my son the math guru did not have to teach school so he helped his old daddy work on a bow. We finished a new form that kennym and I started back in November for some limbs on a static recurve. We prepared two pieces of some killer jatoba and bocote for the riser. Layed up some cool flares to be cut in them tomorrow. Pics will be posted later this week.