2017 Bow Swap

[Roy from Pa]

Very nice bows.

[Mad Max]

X2

[Dan Landis]

Looks good Ink, can't wait to see it finished.

Very nice looking bow and shooting Mitch!

[mwosborn]

Thanks guys, hope to ship tomorrow.

[mwosborn]

Just shipped this morning.  Should be there in a couple of days - hope it makes it ok!

[Krasus]

I hope mine arrives soon.

[Walt Francis]

A quick update on the bow I am building.  I have it roughed out and near floor tiller.  That said, with processing the ST. Jude's payments and getting everything ready for the first Montana Selfbow Jamboree in less than two weeks, my bow probably will not ship until the middle of July.

[Al Dean]

A nice nimble recurve I received from Mitch Osborn today.  Light and quick.  What a nice surprise, thanks mitch.
I'd do a few more photos if I could find my other camera. Does anybody know where I put it?

[mwosborn]

Your welcome Al.  Man, it got there quick! I know it has a couple of flaws and is pretty simple!  One of my first attempts at a recurve and my 4th glass bow.  I learned a lot making it and look forward to making some more.  I haven't seen your camera.      

[Mo_coon-catcher]

That's a good looking bow.
I've got mine packaged up and ready to ship out in the morning. Someone will need to keep an eye out for an 80" white pipe.

Kyle

[mwosborn]

I will be watching my door step!

[Mo_coon-catcher]

There should be a pipe on someone's doorstep. Tracking shows it delivered a couple hours ago.

Kyle

[talkingcabbage]

Has anyone heard from Kelly lately?  I sent him a message awhile back and haven't heard anything.  

I received my bow today and was really bummed for a lot of reasons.  One is because the reason I need to get ahold of Kelly is because I needed to drop out of the Swap this year due to some personal reasons and a surgery and the resulting recovery time afterward. So I have not been able to build in my bow for my recipient.

The other reason is because I received the boat today and was bummed out thinking that I would need to send it on. When I opened up the package it said there was a bamboo backed ipe bow inside, which is one that I have been wanting forever.
When I got the box off the porch it looked a little funny anyway so I took some pictures. But then when I opened it up I found to my disgust the bow was broken in two places on one limb. it looks like it got beat around in UPS. So now I'm not sure what to do. Do I send it back to the Bowyer, or what?

[talkingcabbage]

By the way Peter, the bow looked fantastic! I was really hoping to shoot it a couple of times before I sent it on. It looked like you did a really good job on it.

[kennym]

Man, that stinks!

Joe, hope your recovery goes well bud!

[Krasus]

Don't pass on a broken bow.  Lol that's why you can't ship in anything other then a pvc tube.

Sucks thought. Bow looked beautiful

[mwosborn]

Man - sorry to see that!

[peanut39350]

Received a good looking bow the other day unfortunately mine didn't survive shipping either

[Mo_coon-catcher]

I'm sorry to see that it didn't make it to you safely. I sent you a PM. I want to make sure you get a good bow.
Did it break at the stringing groove on the upper nock? I hate to see it break, I really liked that bow and how it shot. And the persimmon made a pretty wood once polished up.

Kyle

[inksoup]

sad to see such a good looking bow broken.

btw: i was pretty busy last couple weeks plus there was a long religious holiday in here. so i could not make some progress. hopefully next week i will make some progress. sorry to make my recipent wait little longer.

best.