TG BOW SWAP 2012 (pics and post)

[red hill]

Beautiful bow, Dan. The osage underlays and fox silencers are intreging.
What is the thickness of the osage?
How do you process the fox fur to use as silencers?
I have a fox skin and would like to use it even though it isn't the best skinning job I've ever done.

[SportHunter]

Great looking bows everyone, nice to see things picking up again.

[Stiks-n-Strings]

I'll give her good home Dan    :D

Alot of sweet looking bows coming together.

I'm gonna take mine to the TN Classic and show it off a bit and when I get back it will go in the mail to her new home.

[LeeNY]

Dan, Great looking bow!!!!!!!

[Cuban Missile]

Red hill you just cut thin strips around 3-4 inches long and about 1cm wide.  stick one end in the string wrap the rest around the outside and then tuck the other end in the string at the end.

[Cuban Missile]

Dan thats a nice looking bow I like the backing.

[David Flanrey]

Here are a couple pics of the tradebow I am building.  Like a few others in the trade, I am hoping my option A works out.  It had several roller coaster areas in the limbs not to mention alot of twist.  I had a hard time with the tiller.  It is 62" NTN and is at 51# at 28".  I have shot it about 100 or so times.  Gonna put on some hardwood tips and some copper head skins this week end.

[Dan Landis]

Red, I added the osage because I came in under weight.  I scraped the belly flat, then glued a 3/16" slat on each limb.  I heated and bent the osage to fit up into the fades, then glued on with smooth on.  I needed to gain back about 7-8 lbs.  After retillering I ended up with 1/8" or less at the fades and almost nothing toward the tips to get the 7 lbs back.  As Pearl Drums told me when I inquired about adding slats to the belly "It doesn't take much osage to put 10 lbs back on a bow".
The fox hide was tanned, then cut into strips and applied as Cuban Missle mentioned above....Dan

[LeeNY]

Hey I made it to the short string today!! Pics tomorrow (wife has camera)!

[vanillabear?]

[Dan Landis]

Thanks for all the good comments on the bow guys.

David, Looking good, that's gonna really be sharp with the copperheads on it.....Dan

[red hill]

Thanks, Dan. I'll have to get the fox out of the freezer and get it tanned. I've wondered about adding underlays. Glad to know it wasn't a ground lamination.

David, that's a sweet bow. You've got it licked!

I added osage tip overlays onto my trade bow this afternoon. One of my neighbors gave me a couple sets of whitetail antlers, so that'll make an arrow rest.

[KellyG]

looking good.

[coaster500]

Some great looking bows !!!

[DVSHUNTER]

Now we are moving! Good looking bows everyone.

[SportHunter]

There have been so many pictures of trade bows lately I'm actually looking at the porch again hoping a bow shows up. For awhile there while we were in the update/picture desert I lost interest, thanks for all the updates everyone  

[PEARL DRUMS]

Perfect tiller David, nice job on that one.

[KellyG]

Man we need to get moving we are getting down to the wire. We have just over a month to get the rest of these bows shipped. Man I better get a move on.

[red hill]

Javier, does the skin have to be tanned? I read one description (can't remember exactly where) of putting strips of 'green' squirrel fur on and allowing it to cure/dry on the string. I would think the hair would fall out...

[David Flanrey]

Thanks guys for the compliments.  It was the nastiest stave I have ever tried to make a bow out of that was successful.  I'll get those skins on this weekend and post some more pics.