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Main Boards => The Bowyer's Bench => Topic started by: Mike Mecredy on December 15, 2023, 01:54:59 PM
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Hi everyone. It's been a good while since I posted anything on here, but I figured I do it today. Anyhow, As some of you know, I gave up the professional bowyering gig last spring. Well, I have many small peices of wood, around 10 years of it it, here and there, of all specicies, exotic and domestic, natural and manufactured. I find them useful for a few projects and I thought I'd share a few with you guys. Forgive me that these aren't bows, but tis the season right? [ You are not allowed to view attachments ] [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
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9:25 a good time to do it :tongue:
Nice clock
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10:35 actually, it hangs purple corner pointing up.
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Since I bought a small wood lathe, I have been using up my stash of scraps.
These are a few of my game calls.
Dave.
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I give them to knife guys and other crafters, and sometimes get some cool stuff back made from them...
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https://goo.gl/photos/JVMpk4Y1PAkU3eXS9
https://photos.app.goo.gl/kwuMZfFhFRbQEMnT9
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Wow Kirk, I’ll bet that table took a good few hours to build. Very nice!
Dave.
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dang Kirk, that's hard core.
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A couple years ago i thought id try my hand at a roll top Toy box for my grandson that i built from some scap red oak flooring.... This was a fun project too.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/wHECJnQetBL14Y8K9
https://photos.app.goo.gl/HbA3XafnmFNaR4jd8
Now you want to talk hard core? ....... Our old farm house was built in 1883 and the original foundation was pretty crude. They put a real foundation under the main house in the 50's some time, but didn't do a very good job of leveling the floor. This 18 X 22' family room was almost 2" out from side to side, and 3" out of level end to end.... I had to use a laser and cut custom tapered firing strips to level it out before putting the new plywood down. Then i put solid hickory flooring in. Did the whole thing solo and it took me a week. This was done in 2019 at age 64.... Wish i had done it in my 30's... LOL This was hard core. Check out that scribed piece of plywood at the stone hearth.... That was wild! :biglaugh:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/JiTvPpXmQXSxeeheA
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These Anglo-Saxon era lyres found in archaeological dig sites in Germany, dating back to the time of Charlemagne.
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Knife scales
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Whoa! A luthier in the house! cool....
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KirkII -- I was a luthier before being a bowyer -- folk fiddles and banjos, citarra, lyres, mountain dulcimers, fretted zithers, psalteries of several kinds, ukuleles, and a dreadnaught guitar once. Bows are what I make from my scraps.... not the other way around.
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Guitars for me into wood working, bows made me stay.
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Got a couple of guitars and I refer to my bows as my other stringed instruments. :bigsmyl:
Scraps make dandy door stops, pulls and handles for cabinets, and thumb rings.
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I have quite a bit of research material on building guitars, but never took the plunge myself. I looked into to building an acoustic 6 string seriously a few years ago, but never found the time. i admire the craftsmanship needed to pull that off. :thumbsup:
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Kirk- those spiders you made out of limb cut offs are really cool!