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Topic Archives => Build Alongs => Topic started by: George Tsoukalas on February 14, 2004, 04:20:00 PM
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Here's a lemonwood bow. Just finished it today. Thanks again Butch for the stave.
Jawge
http://mysite.verizon.net/georgeandjoni/lemonwood.html
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Real nice Jawge!!! How does she shoot? Ya got a name for it yet? Really enjoyed the ride.
Sparky
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OH BTW...where's the full draw pic in the sweats. That is your legacy ya know :bigsmyl:
Sparky
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Jawge,
I got to read that in depth when I got more time. Just stopped in for the moment and now got the kids yelling to go sledding.
Nice bow, but you always do nice work,
Cooter
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Great looking bow Jawge. :bigsmyl: TOP NOTCH.You do some awsome work. :thumbsup:
Any idea what your next project will be? :confused: Gonna be hard to top the lemonwood.
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Thanks, Sparky. Joni is feeling a bit under the weatehr so I didn't ask her to snap a pic. She's calle "Lemon Bow".
Jawge
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Thanks, Cooter and linc. She shoots very well.
jawge
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Nice going there Jawge! :thumbsup:
I was getting a bit worried that you wasn't going to have any build alongs this year. :(
Glad to see your still at it! Thanks for the pics.
How would you say that lemon wood stacks up to the other woods that most of us use?
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Your an artist Jawge, bowyer just don't do it. Nice work :thumbsup:
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Nice bow Jawge. How's she shoot?....slow?, fast? just ok??
Think this is the first I've seen posted on building with lemonwood...Thanks.
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Nice work George.Works everytime if you take the scientific approach. ;)
Mac~
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Thanks, Timo. Glad you like it. Got next week off too...LOL. Thanks, Dano, just a guy having fun'll do it.
Jawge
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She shoots well, George. Actually, the same as any other bow with 1.5 inches of set. She became a bow pretty fast actually. I'd stack it right there with any of the white woods I have used. I ledt it natural 'casue the wood is purty.
Jawge
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Thanks, Mac. This one was more like flying without instruments. When I looekd at it for the first time Ithough I would make a longbow. I decided that it didn't seem to have the elb style wood. Dunno why. Then I thought i would make a pyramid style handle bow. Nope. Figured wouldn't be enough wood at 1.5 in. wide so I went wit the safe design. She's a good one tho.
Thanks.
Jawge
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George, I also left it natural. :)
jawge
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Thanks Jawge, used to sit at my daddy's knee while he made lemonwood bows in the basement. Brought the memories flooding back and a smile to my face. :bigsmyl:
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Welcome, Ferret. Nice meories. I was just watching Field of Dreams where John was playing catch with his father.
Jawge
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Jawge - she's a beauty. I think I'd like to have it. Would you consider putting it in the tradgang St Judes auction? Steve
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Great Build along Jawge......You're finishes are definitely some of the most creative ..The time and effort you put into them really showcases your bowyerin skills... :) ... Terry
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LOL, Steve. I dunno. This is m first lemonwood bow. Glad you like it tho. Thanks, terry. Those are nice words.
Jawge
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Nice bow and nice tiller Jawge. Used to be an old Belgian fella around here that made ELB style lemonwood bows. They turned a nice honey color as they aged. Wish I coulda got ahold of a few of them to hang on my wall. I know the club I used to shoot pop-n-jay archery at still has one or two of them hanging up.
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Thanks, Tom. I thought about an elb but the stave wasn't long enough and would have taken more than the 1.5-1.75 inch set it did take. Don't you wish we had some of these old timers to teach us? I do. I learned some from Bob Holzhauser who was taught from an old timer but most of what I learned was from trial and error.
Jawge
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For sure Jawge. Those ELB's were all prolly pushing 72". Memory serves that most of the older bows he had were all sporting about an inch of set. Not bad considering the use they got. Watching that old guy shoot was a joy. I don't think he varied his impact point at the target more than 1/2" in all the time I shot archery at that club. He would methodically draw back and let 'er fly as soon as he reached anchor. His arras weren't as fast as the ones coming out of our recurves but, by God, I'd never bet against him. ;)
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I hear ya, Tom. That's a special story. If you could relate what you remember it would be special.
jawge
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Thanks Jawge, now quite making it look so simple. One question, how many hands does it take to strecth and clamp silk? Or do you get them feet of yours involved with the process as well?
:bigsmyl:
Cooter
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Simple! You should go in my garden and see the tomato stakes. Damned if they don't look like BL bows. :)
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Jawge,
IOTFLMAO,
Cooter
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George; very classy looking bow, well done (as always). :-) Very different than I thought it would look like when I saw you commence.
First real bow was a lemon wood also. Guess a few of us still remember them fondly.
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Dan, thank you for the kind words. When I started this one I thought it was going to be a longbow. Then I figured a pyramid bow. Then I figured flat bow with a handle. Then I decided to let the handle bend. It turned out very different from when I started it. :)
Jawge