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Well guys if you've been following Mikes Saint Judes Bamboo Backed Yew thread you know we've split this effort from one team of Trad Gang bowyers into two for the Auction, Team BBY will be building a Bamboo Backed Yew Bow......Team Osage will be building a Osage Selfbow.... Mike has a head start on his materials and bowyers.... Who would like to help out the team Osage effort??...Terry
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Terry, I'd be glad to help out anyway I can.
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Mike and Terry, I got the E-mail, you want a 64" or 95" stave? The 95" stave has a dogleg in the area where the handle would be, that if incorporated would automatically cant the bow. Let me know which you want or I'll send you one of each.
Terry
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Well I'll make the same offer for this one as I did for the other one and volunteer to do a super glue and stacked leather handle overlay with the same type arrow shelf or shelves being an option.
Sounds like the other bow will have a wood overlay most likely. This will probably have a leather wrap too but the leather helps round out the back and can be made long enough to show a bit at the top and bottom.
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Cool... It looks like we have a heck of a Team...... How does this look for assignments?
Terry U; Stave donation
Mickey: Layout,Roughing out to floor tiller.(Let Terry know which stave to send)
George: Final Tiller
Dave: Super Glue stacked leather handle overlay and rests
Timo: tip overlays and Grass Carp backing
Bigriver: bow finish
Shaun: Handle wrap
Dano: Bow Sock and String.
David: Ferret floppy quiver
Nick: Splined Self nocks on arrows
The only thing we might be missing are some arrows .... Anybody else interested?.... Terry
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Terry I'm interested, but I'm out of my league here, this is going to be pretty neat to see. I'm looking forward to seeing this one. How about a Ferret Floppy quiver for it, that I could put together for it.
David
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Thanks David.... Consider yourself on the team..... You get the Ferret Floppy quiver assignment..... Man I've not seen that one yet when did Mickey come up with that??... Floppy rests, Bowyers rules and now floppy quivers... He's well on his way to becoming the Gucci of self bows.... Terry
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Bigriver....I see you kinda slipped through the cracks on the BBY bow thread (And I'm not above stealing talent ) are you interested in doing the finish on this bow??.....Terry
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I guess you got it covered. Of course you can count on me to help in any way I can.
A bit of reflection on the last couple times I've been involved in similar efforts. I bet well over $200 in shipping was involved in MOJOEs I and II just getting it to various bowyers, artisans. I know I spent over $50 myself. Minimize that to the extent possible and funnel that $ away from the USPS and into St. Jude's. Just a thought.
Peace,
John
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