Officially Addicted

[Tron]

Just strung up my first bow after several days of roughing out.  I'm hooked.  Already planning my next bow.  Hill-style longbow, Bamboo veneers over a Actionboo core with an East Indian Rosewood riser.  It's very light, a recovery bow for me as I work back from a shoulder injury.  Should come out around 30 pounds at 28.  Can't wait to work out the riser so I can shoot it!

[jsweka]

You're done for now.  You'll never look at a piece of wood again without wondering how it would look in a bow.

I build Hill style bows myself.  I'd love to see some pics when you get it done.

[BrushWolf]

It's good to know I'm not alone. Keep up the good work.  

[DVSHUNTER]

It's hopeless to fight it.

[Tron]

jsweka I'll put some up when I can figure out how to get them off my phone (the only camera I've got).  I put it on the scale today and its looking like it will end up at around 20 pounds which is just fine for me as I have another bow to work up to after.  60 inches nock to nock.

The Hill-style bow was an excellent one to start will and the rough tiller is looking great so far.

[arrowlauncherdj]

Tron, email them to yourself off your phone... you can type in your email address as a picture text..., then save to computer, and post them on Photobucket.com.  From there, resize them to the 640 allowed on TG and on each photo, there will be a list of versions to choose from... it'll be underneath the photo, like 5 versions or so. Just click the bottom version with your mouse, it will say "copied"... then load up TG on the web, right click and paste.  The photo will show up after you hit submit post.

Dave

[Tron]

The email is the part that's not working.  For being the "technology generation", I'm sure having trouble with this haha.  I'll dig out the cable for it tonight when I get home and post them.

[Cuban Missile]

If you have an iPhone or maybe another smart phone there is an app for photo bucket that uploads them automatically to photo bucket and then you can just go your computer to post them... Thats what I do.  No cables needed.

Welcome to the whirlpool of bowyerism...

Im not sure if that is a word but it should be if it isn't.

[Tron]

Ah! That's the app I need!! Thanks Cuban.  

Someone should add bowyerism to the Urban Dictionary

[Tron]

He she is drawn to about 20 inches.  The bow was 64 inches at this point.  It's now down to 60 because it was so light.  Math error, oh well.  Next one will be better

 

View of the braced bow from the back

 

Clearly unfinished, but I'm excited

[Roy from Pa]

Looks very nice, congrats.

[arrowlauncherdj]

hey Tron, what was your stack on that bow? and what poundage did you come up with?

[Tron]

The total stack was .250 with .040 glass.  The limb design is pretty slender so its lighter than I was expecting, but thats they way I like bows to look and as a first bow I'm not too concerned about performance and hitting the target weight.  It simply nice knowing I can do it and do better next time.

[tishtail]

Hi i'd like say the bow looks nice also cuban missile you said that if you have photo bucket it's easy to down load pics. i just got a camera withit built in so how do you load direct to i page like this? if to long to explain now can you email me [email protected] thanks

[JJB]

Fun isn't it, looking good.
-Jay

[Cuban Missile]

Wow a camera with photo bucket built in!  You got me there i didn't know that even existed, but the path is like this.  

First you need a photo bucket account.
In your case Camera uploads to photo bucket, and then when the picture is in photo bucket they have links to the left of the picture click the link next to where it says IMG code and then you can paste it in the message box here and the picture will show up.  

Sorry for jacking the thread there...